Penn State University: 1989-90 Session
Time: 4:30 p.m. Room: 117 McAllister
FALL SEMESTER 1989
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past_seminars/cam_colloquium/fall89.dvi(DVI) — 18 talks.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 25 Aug 89 | G. Ponce | Department of Mathematics, PSU | The generalized Korteweg-deVries equation |
| Fri 1 Sep 89 | G. Caloz | Department of Mathematics, PSU | Derivation of the Mindlin-Reissner model for plates |
| Fri 8 Sep 89 | T.-P. Liu | Courant Institute of Math’l Sciences | Nonlinear waves for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations |
| Thu 14 Sep 89 | T. B. Benjamin | Depts of Math., PSU & Oxford Univ. | Continuous Hamiltonian systems |
| Fri 15 Sep 89 | C.E. Kenig | Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Chicago | Boundary-value problems for elliptic equations |
| Fri 22 Sep 89 | G. Papanicolaou | Courant Institute of Math’l Sciences | Direct and inverse problems for the reflection of waves from ran- dom media |
| Fri 29 Sep 89 | D.N. Arnold | Department of Mathematics, PSU | Some aspects of the theory of plates |
| Fri 6 Oct 89 | J. Xu | Department of Mathematics, PSU | Modern approaches to solving large systems arising from the dis- cretization of partial differential equations |
| Fri 13 Oct 89 | D. Dix | Department of Mathematics, PSU | Moving pole solutions of the Benjamin-Ono-Burger equation |
| Fri 20 Oct 89 | G. Birkhoff | Dept. of Mathematics, Harvard University | The numerical solution of elliptic problems |
| Fri 27 Oct 89 | A. Soffer | Dept. of Mathematics, Princeton Univ. | Scattering theory for nonlinear Schrödinger equations |
| Fri 3 Nov 89 | R.P. Kanwal | Department of Mathematics, PSU | Some direct and inverse boundary-value problems |
| Fri 10 Nov 89 | E. DiBenedetto | Dept. of Math., Northwestern Univ. | Harnack estimates for non-negative solutions of singular parabolic equations |
| Fri 17 Nov 89 | L.C. Li ((Department of Mathematics, PSU) "Poisson structures associated with R-matrices: Theory and appli- cations’ | — | — |
| Mon 20 Nov 89 | R. Stenberg | Depts. of Mathematics, Univ. of Maryland & Helsinki Univ. of Technology | Nonconforming methods for Reissner-Mindlin plates |
| Fri 1 Dec 89 | C. Stuart | Depts. of Math, Univ. of Lausanne & Cornell Univ. | Self-trapping and bifurcation from the essential spectrum |
| Fri 8 Dec 89 | A. Beris | Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware | Poisson-bracket formulation for fluid-flow equations: applications to viscoelastic and liquid-crystalline flows |
| Mon 11 Dec 89 | L. Vega | Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Chicago | Oscillatory integrals and the Korteweg-de Vries equation |