Applied Mathematics Seminars — Spring 1988

Applied Mathematics Seminars

Penn State University: 1987-88 Session
Time: 4:30 p.m. Room: 117 McAllister
SPRING SEMESTER 1988

Converted from past_seminars/cam_colloquium/spring88.dvi (DVI) — 26 talks.

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
Fri 15 Jan 88 S. Herzog Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State Univ. Detection of large-scale structures in turbulent boundary layers
Fri 22 Jan 88 A.M. Krall Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State Univ. Singular boundary-value problems for linear ordinary differen- tial equations
Fri 29 Jan 88 L.C. Li Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State Univ. The Hamiltonian dynamics of eigenvalue algorithms’ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________* *__ 1988 RUSSELL MARKER LECTURES – MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES by J.B. Keller (Dept. of Mathematics, Stanford University) "Applications of Mathematics
To be held at 8 00 p.m. in Osmond Laboratory
Mon 1 Feb 88 Mathematical aspects of athletes
Tue 2 Feb 88 Semiclassical mechanics and quantization
Wed 3 Feb 88 Rays, waves and asymptotics
Thu 4 Feb 88 Fast reaction, slow diffusion, and flow by curvature N.B. Lectures 1 & 2 to be in Room 119, and lectures 3 & 4 in Room 109 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________* *__
Fri 12 Feb 88 S. Zhang Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State Univ. Multigrid methods for three-dimensional problems and for non- nested meshes
Mon 15 Feb 88 P. Sternberg Dept. of Mathematics, Stanford Univ. "Local minimizers of non-convex variational problems’ APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINARS Penn State University: 1987-88 Session
Mon 15 Feb 88 J. Maddocks Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Maryland Stability and bifurcation in variational principles
Fri 19 Feb 88 J. Pitkäranta Helsinki Univ. of Tech. & Univ. of Maryland Iterative methods for the P-version of the finite element method
Fri 26 Feb 88 J. Xu Dept. of Mathematics, Cornell University Analysis of some multigrid algorithms
Tue 8 Mar 88 P. Olver Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Minnesota Classical Invariant Theory, The Calculus of Variations and Car- tan’s Equivalence Method
Thu 10 Mar 88 W. Lakin Old Dominion Univ. & N.S.F. Mean flow modification by Görtler vortices in a growing bound- ary layer
Fri 18 Mar 88 H. Kaper Argonne National Laboratory Comparison theorems and their use in the analysis of some non- linear diffusion problems
Tue 22 Mar 88 J. Pöschel Depts of Math., Bonn & Cornell Univ. "Invariant tori in infinite dimensional Hamiltonian systems’*
Fri 25 Mar 88 V. Donnay Dept. of Mathematics, Princeton University Ergodic geodesic flow on a sphere
Mon 28 Mar 88 W.N. Everitt Dept of Mathematics, Birmingham Univ. Boundary-value problems for ordinary differential equations
Wed 30 Mar 88 L.L. Littlejohn Dept. of Math., Utah State Univ. Energy-definite boundary-value problems
Fri 1 Apr 88 F.R. Deutsch Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State Univ. Duality methods for constrained best approximation
Tue 5 Apr 88 B. Ruf Dept of Mathematics, University of Milan On multiple periodic solutions for Hamiltonian systems
Fri 8 Apr 88 No seminar – Three Rivers Colloquium APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINARS Penn State University: 1987-88 Session
Fri 15 Apr 88 G. Barsch Dept. of Physics, Penn State Univ. Modulated structures: answers and questions
Fri 22 Apr 88 W.G. Pritchard Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State Univ. The formation of sand bars by the action of water waves
Fri 29 Apr 88 P.J. Webster Dept. of Meteorology, Penn State Univ. Modified equatorial waves in realistic, basic flows: accumula- tion, emanation and stretching