Applied Math Seminar


Fall 1998 Lectures

August 31: Robert Maier (U. of Arizona, Math)
Singular Perturbation Theory and Large, Rare Fluctuations of Noise-Driven Systems
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September 7: Holiday

September 14: Nick Ercolani (U. of Arizona, Math)
Singularities and Defects in Patterns far from Threshold
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September 21: Bo Li (UCLA, Math)
On Simply Laminated Microstructure in Martensitic Crystals
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September 28: Bixiang Wang (BYU Math)
Attractors for Partial Differential Evolution Equations
in Unbounded Domains
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October 5: John Lopez (Arisona S. U. Math)
Periodically Forced Centrifugally Unstable Flows
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October 12: Sasha Balk (U. of U. Math)
Passive Scalar in a Wave Field
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October 19: Joe Raquepas (U. of U. Math)
Intercellular Calcium Waves in Astrocytes
Joint seminar of appl. math and math biology
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October 26: Markus Poppenberg (Math, Dortmund, Germany)
Nash-Moser methods for the solution of nonlinear Schroedinger type equations
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November 2: Gregory Chechkin (MSU Math)
Behavior of perforated bodies with rough surface
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November 9: John Nairn (U. of U. Material Science & Engineering)
Some Exact and Variational Methods for Analysis of Fracture
in Composites with Residual Stresses,
Traction Loaded Cracks, and Imperfect Interfaces
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November 16: Jon Jacobsen (U. of U. Math)
Bifurcation problems associated with Monge-Ampere Operators
Please note the room change for this seminar: JTB 120
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November 23: Chris Johnson (U. of U. Computer Science)
Computational Steering and Interactive Visualization
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November 30: Misha Raikh (U. of U. Physics)
Renormalization-Group Approach to the Quantum Hall Effect
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December 7: Karl Glasner (U. of U. Math)
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