Applied Math Seminar


Fall 1999 Lectures

September 7: Yakov Benveniste (Tel Aviv U, Engineering)
Neutral Inhomogeneities in Conduction Phenomena
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Note the day change - TUESDAY

September 13: Thomas Bartsch (U Giessen, Germany)
Critical point theory on partially ordered Hilbert spaces
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September 20: Paul Fife (U of U Math)
A nonlocal model for phase changes with peculiar dynamics
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September 27:

October 4: Tom Chou (Stanford Math)
Membrane electromechanics and protein interactions
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October 11: Roy S. Baty and F. Farassat (Sandia Natl. Lab.)
The Application of Nonstandard Analysis to the Study of
Inviscid Shock Wave Jump Conditions
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October 18: Sasha Balk (U of U Math)
Anomalous Diffusion of a Tracer Advected by Wave Turbulence
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October 25: Chris Wiggins (NYU, Courant)
The Viscous Nonlinear Dynamics of Twist and Writhe
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Note the room change - AEB 320

November 1: Jingyi Zhu (U of U Math)
Interest Rate Derivatives: Modeling and Pricing
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Novembr 8: Brent L. Adams (BYU Mechanical Engineering)
Extraction of Grain Boundary Properties from Experimental Measurements
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November 15: David J. Muraki (Courant)
Vortex Asymmetries in the Midlatitude Atmosphere
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November 17: Rick Durrett (Cornell Math)
DNA repeat sequences
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Joint seminar with Math Bilogy and Stochastics

November 22: Elena Cherkaeva (U of U Math)
Indirect evaluation of effective properties of a mixture
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November 29: Dan Meiron (Caltech, Appl. Math)
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December 6: Knut Solna (U of U Math)
Propagation of pulses in multiscale random media.
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