Penn State University
Department of Mathematics
Fridays, 3:30-4:30 PM
102 McAllister Building
| 08/28/98 | Fang-Hua Lin
Courant Institute Host: M. C. Calderer |
Motion laws for vortex dynamics |
| 09/04/98 | Noel Walkington
Carnegie Mellon University Host: C. Liu |
Approximation of liquid crystal flows |
| 09/11/98 | Daniele Boffi
Universit� di Pavia and PSU |
Spurious solutions in the approximation of eigenproblems of mixed form |
| 09/21/98 | Tom Mullin
Host: S. Tavener |
Electrohydrodynamic
convection in a nematic |
| 10/02/98 | Robert Hardt
Rice University Host: M. C. Calderer |
Mathematical models of singularities in nematic liquid crystals |
| 10/12/98 | Hermann Wilke
Institute of Crystal Growth, Berlin Host: S. Tavener |
Convective
interaction and flow patterns during oxide crystal growth
Note: meets on Monday in 316 Boucke, 3:30-4:30. |
| 10/16/98 | Richard
Falk
Rutgers University Host: D. Arnold |
Locking-free finite elements for the Reissner-Mindlin plate model |
| 10/23/98 | Hongkai Zhao
Stanford University Host: J. Xu |
Dynamic surface reconstruction using variational level set method |
| 10/30/98 | Al Schatz
Cornell University Host: J. Xu |
New pointwise estimates for finite element methods and applications |
| 11/06/98 | Note: Finite Element Circus at Maryland | |
| 11/13/98 | Bjorn Engquist
UCLA Host: J. Xu |
Wavelet based homogenization |
| 11/20/98 | Robert Burridge
Schlumberger-Doll Research Center Host: L. Berlyand |
Nonlinear poroelasticity equations for a fluid-filled granular medium |
| 11/27/98 | no seminar--Thanksgiving | |
| 12/04/98 | Qi Wang
Indiana University-Purdue University Host: M. C. Calderer |
The modeling of thermal expansion: Instability of constrained theories and constitutive limits |
| 12/11/98 |
Hermann
Riecke
Northwestern University Host: A. Belmonte |
Localized structures in pattern-forming systems: worms, pulses, oscillons |