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PDE/Applied Math Seminar

Schedule for Spring 2006

Talks are  Thursdays at 3:30 pm in room 3206 MTH (the Math department colloquium room) unless noted otherwise.

If you want to receive e-mail announcements of talks please contact Georg Dolzmann(dolzmann@math.umd.edu).

(Click here for previous semesters' schedules.)

  Feb. 2   Optimal bounds on coarsening rates: an energy landscape argument
  Felix Otto  (Bonn)
  Feb. 3   Aziz Lecture
  Multiscale analysis in micromagnetics
  Felix Otto  (Bonn)
  Feb. 9   The Entropy Condition for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
  Michael Westdickenberg  (Bonn)
  Feb. 16  February Fourier Talks at the Norbert Wiener Center
(The PDE/Appl. Math. Seminar does not meet this week)
  Feb. 23   Some recent results on stability of collisionless plasmas
  Zhiwu Lin  (Courant Institute)
  March 9   Finite energy solvability of 3d div-curl boundary value problems
  Giles Auchmuty  (NSF and Houston)
  March 16   Perturbing optimally for chaotic mixing
  Sanjeeva Balasuriya  (Sydney)
  March 23  Spring Break - The seminar does not meet!
  March 30   Numerical investigations of electric-field-induced transitions in cholesteric liquid crystal films
  Chuck Gartland  (Kent State)
  April 6   Homogenization of advection-diffusion equation with small diffusivity
  Dmitry Dolgopyat  (Maryland)
  April 13   postponed
  Vera Mikyoung Hur  
  April 20   Derivation of particle, string and membrane motions from Born-Infeld electromagnetism
  Yann Brenier  
  April 21   Aziz Lecture
  String integration of some MHD equations
  Yann Brenier  
  April 27   Analysis of some interface and free surface problems
  Daniel Coutand  (Davis)
  May 4   On BV estimates for p-system with frictional damping
  Ronghua Pan (Georgia Tech)  
  May 9  Joint PDE/Appl. Math. and Numerical Analysis Seminar
  An adaptive method for Hamilton-Jacobi equations
  Bernardo Cockburn  (Minneapolis)

How to reach the Math Department by car and public transportation

Special accomodations for individuals with disabilities can be made by calling in advance (301) 405-5048. It would be appreciated if we are notified at least one week in advance.

For further information contact G. Dolzmann at dolzmann@math.umd.edu.