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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.