Penn State University: 1990–91 Session
Time: 4:30 PM, Room: 116 McAllister
FALL SEMESTER 1991
Converted from
past_seminars/cam_colloquium/fall91.dvi(DVI) — 15 talks.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 23 Aug | William Pritchard | Dept. of Math., PSU | Scaling in the animal kingdom |
| Tue Aug 27 | Fred Weissler | E’cole Normale Superieure de Cachan | Asymptotic behavior of a non-local non-linear wave equation 113 Osmond Note special day and room! |
| Fri 30 Aug | Qun Lin | Academia Sinica, China | Interpolated finite elements |
| Fri 6 Sep | Amy Novick-Cohen | Dept. of Math., Technion, Israel | Steady states of the Sivashinsky and Cahn-Hilliard equations |
| Fri 13 Sep | Irene Fonseca | Dept. of Math., Carnegie Mellon Univ. | Variational methods for phase transitions |
| Fri 20 Sep | Victor Mizel | Dept. of Math., Carnegie Mellon Univ. | The thermodynamics of periodic phases |
| Fri 27 Sep | Leonid Berlyand | Department of Mathematics, PSU | Checkerboard models in homogenization of periodic and random structures |
| Fri 4 Oct | Min Chen | Department of Mathematics, PSU | The incremental unknown method for discretized second order elliptic problems |
| Fri 11 Oct | Brooke Benjamin | Dept. of Math., PSU and Oxford Univ. | Peculiarities of infinite fluids |
| Fri 18 Oct | Joseph Hammack | Math. and Earth & Min. Sci., PSU | Resonant triad interactions among gravity-capillary waves |
| Fri 25 Oct | John Osborn | University of Maryland | Special finite element methods for elliptic problems with rough coefficients |
| Fri 1 Nov | Victor Maslov | Soviet Academy of Science | Modelling cooling processes at the exploded Chernobyl reactor |
| Fri 8 Nov | No seminar: | — | Finite Element Circus at PSU, Friday and Saturday |
| Fri 15 Nov | R. Rajagopal | Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Pittsburgh | Recent advances in rotating flows |
| Fri 22 Nov | Mitchell Luskin | Dept. of Math., Univ. of Minnesota | The computation of martensitic microstructure |