Applied Math Seminar


Spring 1999 Lectures

January 11: Andrej Cherkaev and Sasha Balk (U of U Math)
Dynamics of solids with non-monotone stress-strain relations
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January 18: Holiday

January 25: Leonid Gibiansky (Globomax LLC)
Multiphase composites with extremal bulk modulus
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February 1: Davar Khoshnevisan (U of U Math)
Martingales on trees and percolation
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February 8: Yanguang (Charles) Li (Pinceton IAS)
Existence of chaos in perturbed cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation.
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February 15: Holiday

February 16: Davar Khoshnevisan (U of U Math)
Martingales on trees and percolation
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Note: this is Substitute day - Tuesday by Monday's schedule

February 22: Mark Mineev-Weinstein (Los Alamos)
Selection of the Saffman-Taylor Finger Width
in the Absence of Surface Tension: an Exact Result
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March 1: Aaron Fogelson(U. of U. Math)
Computational Modeling of Blood Clotting:
Platelet Aggregation and Coagulation
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Joint seminar of appl. math and math biology

March 8: Robert Lipton (WPI Math)
Optimal fiber configurations for maximum torsional rigidity
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March 12: Andrea Bertozzi (Duke Math and Physics)
Undercompressive Shocks in Thin Film Flows
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Special Seminar - note Day, Time, and Room change: Friday, 3:05 pm, JTB 110

March 15: Spring Break

March 22: Thomas Hillen (U of U Math)
Reductions of Reaction-Transport-Equations
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March 29: Dan Meiron (Caltech)
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March 29: David Eyre and Graeme Milton (U of U Math)
Using analyticity to check the consistency of experimental measurements
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April 5: Elizabeth Bradley (U of Colorado Computer Science)
Chaos and Control
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April 12: Richard Schapery (U of Texas Aerospace Engineering)
Constitutive Equations for Viscoelastic Composites with Growing
Damage and their Application to a Particulate Composite
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April 19: Klaus Schmitt (U of U Math)
Critical points of some non coercive functionals and sub harmonic solutions
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Note Room Change - JTB 110

April 22: Markku Miettinen ( U of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
Necessary conditions for G-closure in linear conductivity
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Special Seminar. Note Day and Room change - Thursday, JTB 110

April 26: Robert Jerrard (UI UrbanaCh Math)
Soliton dynamics in a potential
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