Penn State University: 1992–93 Session
Time: 4:30 PM, Room: 102 McAllister
FALL SEMESTER 1992
Converted from
past_seminars/cam_colloquium/fall92.dvi(DVI) — 21 talks.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 28 Aug | J. Shen | Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State University | A New Method of Nonlinear Galerkin Type Using Chebyshev and Legendre Polynomials. |
| Fri 4 Sep | K. Golden | Dept. of Mathematics, University of Utah | Percolation problems in materials science |
| Fri 11 Sep | Y. Pesin | Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State University | Instability of travelling waves in lattice models |
| Fri 18 Sep | J. Osborn | Dept. of Mathematics, University of Maryland | Mixed finite element methods for problems with rough coefficients |
| Fri 25 Sep | L.N. Trefethen | Dept. of Computer Sci., Cornell University | Hydrodynamic stability without eigenvalues |
| Thurs 1 Oct - Sat 3 Oct | SNP meeting | — | 1992 Fall meeting of The Society of Natural Philosophy |
| Fri 9 Oct | J. Jones | Dept. of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh | Solidification Stability |
| Mon 12 Oct | G.A. Uhlmann | Dept. of Math., University of Washington | Inverse boundary value problems and applications |
| Fri 16 Oct | Y. Renardy | Dept. of Math., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ. | Sideband instability in two-layer flows |
| Fri 23 Oct | R.E.L. Turner | Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Wisconsin | Waves and Oscillatory Tales |
| Fri 30 Oct | E. Fried | Dept. of Eng. Sci. & Mech., Penn State Univ. | Continuum theory of phase transitions with interfacial structure generated by an order parameter |
| Fri 6 Nov | L. Luo | Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State University | Initial and boundary value problems for certain shallow-water wave equations |
| Mon 9 Nov | P. Kloucek | Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Minnesota | Dynamics of micro-structure |
| Wed 11 Nov | F.M. Leslie | Dept. of Math., University of Strathclyde | A continuum model for smectic liquid crystals |
| Fri 13 Nov | M. Renardy | Dept of Math., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ. | On the type of certain C0 -semigroups |
| Fri 20 Nov | J. Chadam | Dept. of Mathematics, McMaster University | Reactive flows in porous media: rigorous results |
| Mon 23 Nov | F. Alouges | CNRS and Centre de math’ematiques et leurs applications, ENS de Cachan | An energy decreasing algorithm for liquid crystals: implementation in the annulus problem |
| Thurs 3 Dec | A. Soffer | Dept. of Mathematics, University of Princeton | Classical Global existence for supercritical nonlinearities and large data |
| Fri 4 Dec | Xiaobo Liu | Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State University | Interior error estimates for some mixed finite element methods |
| Fri 11 Dec | H.Y. Zha | Computer Science Dept., Penn State University | Fast Numerical Algorithms for Solving General Hankel and Toeplitz Linear Systems |
| Fri 18 Dec | A. Borhan | Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University | The effect of surfactants on the motion of drops in bounded domains |