Applied Mathematics Seminar (Spring 1999)
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- Applied Mathematics Seminar, Spring 1999
- Friday, January 15, 4 PM
- John Lowengrub
- School of Mathematics
- University of Minnesota
- Topological
Transitions in Interfacial Flows
- Tuesday, January 19, 4 PM
- Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz
- NCAR
- Nonhydrostatic
modeling of fluid motions on a sphere
- Friday, January 22, 4 PM, PHILLIPS 332
(SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM/APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR)
- Charles R. Doering
- Department of Mathematics
- University of Michigan
- Laminar
and turbulent energy dissipation in a shear boundary layer with suction
- Friday, January 25, 4 PM, PHILLIPS 332
(SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM/APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR)
- Professor John H. Maddocks
- Department of Mathematics
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
- Continuum
Mechanics Models of DNA
- Wednesday, February 3, 4 PM, PHILLIPS 332
(SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM/APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR)
- Luc Machiels
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- M.I.T.
- A Posteriori
Finite Element Bounds for Output Functionals of the Incompressible Navier-Stokes
Equations
- Friday, February 5, 4 PM, PHILLIPS 332
(SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM/APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR)
- Mark Sussman
- Department of Mathematics
- U.C.Davis
- A three
dimensional adaptive, coupled level set method for computing solutions
to incompressible two-phase flow in general geometries
- Monday, February 8, 4 PM, PHILLIPS 332
(SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM/APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR)
- Jan S. Hesthaven
- Division of Applied Mathematics
- Brown University
- Spectral
Penalty Methods
- Tuesday, February 9, 4 PM, PHILLIPS 332
(SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM/APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR)
- Qing Nie
- Department of Mathematics
- University of Chicago
- Singularities
in Fluids
- Wednesday, February 10, 4 PM, PHILLIPS 332
(SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM/APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR)
- David Adalsteinsson
- LBNL and Berkeley
- Mathematics
& Numerics of Complex Interface Phenomena with Applications to semiconductor
manufacturing
- Friday, February 12, 4 PM, PHILLIPS 332
(SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM/APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR)
- David Cai
- Courant Institute
- NYU
- Spatiotemporal
Chaos and Effective Stochastic Dynamics
- Friday, February 19, 4 PM, PHILLIPS 332
(SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM/APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR)
- John Lowengrub
- School of Mathematics
- University of Minnesota
- Interface
Dynamics, Topological Singularities and the Reconfiguration of Immiscible
Fluid Masses
- Friday, February 26, 4 PM
(JOINT MARINE SCIENCES/APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR)
- H.J.S. Fernando
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics Program
- Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- Arizona State University
- Transports
and Mixing Through Stably Stratified Fluid layers
- Wednesday, March 24, 7 PM (PUBLIC LECTURE)
THE INAUGURAL CHANCELLOR'S SCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES
- Dr. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
- 1991 Nobel Laureate in Physics
- College de France
- Bubbles, Foams and Other Fragile Objects
- Tate Turner Kuralt Building Auditorium
- 301 Pittsboro Street
- There will be a reception in the foyer at 6:30 for the public.
- Thursday, March 25, 4 PM
J.J. HERMANS LECTURE
- Dr. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
- 1991 Nobel Laureate in Physics
- College de France
- Naive ideas on the dynamics of long chains:
DNA entry in electroporated cells
- Venable 207
- reception to follow at Carolina Inn
- Friday, March 26, 1 PM
SPECIAL LECTURE
- Francoise Brochard
- College de France
- Dewetting of polymer liquids and solutions
- Phillips 277
- Monday, March 29, 2 PM, 265 Phillips Hall
INFORMAL TALK
- A. T. Findikoglu
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Large-signal
behavior of nonlinear dielectric SrTiO3
- Friday, April 16, 4 PM
- Ken McLaughlin
- University of Arizona
- On the semiclassical
limit of the focusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation.
- Friday, April 23, 4 PM
- Jingfang Huang
- Courant Institute
- NYU
- A new version of the fast
multipole method for the Helmholtz equation in three dimensions.
- Friday, April 30, 4 PM
- Yuri Lvov
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Dispersion
managed optical systems and solitons. Integrability in leading nonlinear
order.
- Friday, May 7, 4 PM (JOINT WITH PHYSICALLY INSPIRED SEMINAR)
- Otis Wright
- University of North Carolina
- Non-Focusing
Instabilities in Coupled, Integrable Nonlinear Schrodinger PDEs.
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