Penn State University: 1990-91 Session
Time: 4:30 p.m. Room: 102 McAllister
FALL SEMESTER 1990
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past_seminars/cam_colloquium/fall90.dvi(DVI) — 17 talks.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 24 Aug 90 | J. Maddocks | Dept. of Math., Univ. of Maryland | Nonclassical Hamiltonians in classical mechanics |
| Fri 31 Aug 90 | M. Rose | Dept. of Physics, P.S.U. | Long wave models for stratified fluid flows |
| Fri 7 Sep 90 | R. S. Falk | Dept. of Mathematics, Rutgers University | Finite element methods for elasticity |
| Fri 14 Sep 90 | J. Gollub | Depts. of Physics, Haverford College and Univ. of Pennsylvania | Nonlinear dynamics of water waves |
| Fri 21 Sep 90 | E. Titi | Depts. of Math., Cornell Univ. and Univ. of California at Irvine | Approximate inertial manifolds for the Navier-Stokes equations |
| Fri 28 Sep 90 | E. Virga | Inst. of Numerical Analysis, Univ. of Pavia | Defects in liquid crystals |
| Fri 5 Oct 90 | G. Ponce | Department of Mathematics, PSU | Lax pairs and higher-order KdV-type equations |
| Wed 10 Oct 90 | D. Brandon | Dept. of Mathematics, Virginia Tech. | The coercivity paradox in nonlocal ferromagnetism |
| Fri 12 Oct 90 | S. Passman | Sandia Lab., and Pittsburgh Tech. Center | Exact solutions in non-classical hydrodynamics |
| Fri 19 Oct 90 | S. Venakides | Department of Mathematics, Duke Univer- sity | The Toda shock problem |
| Fri 26 Oct 90 | A. Wheeler | Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol | Convective and morphological instability in crystal growth |
| Fri 2 Nov 90 | R. Duran | Depts. of Math., Univ. of Maryland & Univer- sidad Nacional de La Plata | Analysis of mixed finite elements for Reissner-Mindlin plates |
| Fri 9 Nov 90 | S.F. McCormick | Comp. Math. Group, Univ. of Colorado, Denver | Multilevel adaptive methods for partial differential equations |
| Fri 16 Nov 90 | N. Wolanski | Depts. of Math., Univ. of Maryland & Universidad de Buenos Aires | Blow up results for some heat conduction problems |
| Fri 30 Nov 90 | M. Slemrod | Dept. of Math., University of Wisconsin | Dynamics of liquid/vapor phase transitions |
| Tue 4 Dec 90 | V. Dougalis | Dept. of Math., University of Crete | Error estimates for fully discrete Galerkin methods for the nonlin- ear Schrödinger equation |
| Fri 7 Dec 90 | J.A. Nohel | Dept. of Math., University of Wisconsin | Curious phenomena associated with shear flows of non-Newtonian fluids |