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 |