If you want to receive e-mail announcements of talks please contact Sijue Wu(sijue@math.umd.edu).
(Click here for previous semesters' schedules.)
| Feb. 8 | The physics of travelling kinks in a perfectly flexible string
Martin Schagerl, Vienna University of Technology & UMCP |
| Feb. 15 | Applied Math Colloquium
Modeling the Solidification of Non-Axisymmetric Dendrites Jeff McFadden, NIST |
| Feb. 22 | Nematic elastomers as a model system for microstructure in solids
Georg Dolzmann, UMCP |
| March 1 | Complex
fluids: liquid crystals, mixtures and polymeric materials
Chun Liu, Penn State U. |
| March 8 | Nonresonant Velocity Averaging for Vlasov-Maxwell Type Systems
François Golse, University of Paris, 6 & ENS |
| March 15 | A singular minimizer in two dimensional elasticity
Xiaodong Yan, Courant Institute, NYU |
| April 5 | On existence and description of blow-up for
critical KdV
Franck Merle, University of Cergy-Pontoise, Paris |
| April 6 | Math Colloquium
Recent progress on high dimensional Ginzburg-Landau equations Fang-Hua Lin, Courant Institute, NYU Notice that this talk is at 3:00pm on Friday in rm3206 |
| April 9 | On
Schrödinger Maps
Andrea Nahmod, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Notice that this talk is at 4:15pm on Monday in rm3206 |
| April 12 | Applied Math Colloquium
Numerical Methods with Multi-level Physics Weinan E, Princeton University |
| April 20 | Avron Douglis Memorial Lecture
Shock Wave Theory Tai-Ping Liu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan & Stanford University Notice that this talk is at 3:00pm on Friday in rm3206 |
| April 24 | Applied Math Colloquium
Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for elliptic problems: a general framework Franco Brezzi, Universita di Pavia, Italy Notice that this talk is at 3:30pm on Tuesday in rm3206 |
| April 26 | Applied Math Colloquium
Vanishing viscosity approximations to systems of conservation laws Alberto Bressan, SISSA, Italy |
| May 3 | Refined regularity for the blow-up set of semilinear heat equations
Hatem Zaag, Courant Institute, NYU Notice that this talk will meet in rm1313 at the regular time |
| May 10 | Transonic Shocks and Free-Boundary Problems
Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University |
| May 17 | Mathematical
Problems on Macroscopic Models for Semiconductors
Ling Hsiao, Academia Sinica, China |
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 S. Wu at sijue@math.umd.edu.
Last modified: Feb. 20, 2001