Penn State University: 1989-90 Session
Time: 4:30 p.m. Room: 117 McAllister
SPRING SEMESTER 1990
Converted from
past_seminars/cam_colloquium/spring90.dvi(DVI) — 17 talks.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 12 Jan 90 | M.C. Calderer | Dept. of Mathematics, P.S.U. | Theoretical aspects of models for liquid crystals |
| Fri 19 Jan 90 | D.J. Tritton | Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Newcastle-upon- Tyne | Shear-flow turbulence in a rotating fluid |
| Fri 26 Jan 90 | W. Wendland | Universität Stuttgart | Finite element approximation of transonic flows |
| Fri 2 Feb 90 | J. Mandel | Dept. of Math., Univ. of Colorado, Denver | Efficient hierarchical preconditioning in two and three dimensions |
| Fri 9 Feb 90 | S.J. Tavener | Dept. of Mathematics, P.S.U. | Computation of symmetry breaking in mechanics |
| Fri 16 Feb 90 | C. Albanese | Courant Inst. of Mathematical Science | Periodic solutions of infinite dimensional Hamiltonian systems aris- ing in the theory of condensed-matter physics |
| Fri 23 Feb 90 | W. Tang | Dept. of Computer Sci., Univ. of Waterloo | Relief from the pain of overlap: Generalized Schwarz splitting |
| Fri 9 Mar 90 | C. Draghicescu | Dept. of Mathematics, P.S.U. | Fast algorithms for particle methods |
| Fri 16 Mar 90 | A. Szepessy | Courant Inst. of Math. Sciences | Convergence of a finite element method for conservation laws |
| Fri 23 Mar 90 | R.C. Rogers | Dept. of Math., Virginia Poly. & S.U. | Young’s-measure solutions for models of Ferromagnetism |
| Tue 27 Mar 90 | C.-A. Pillet | Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Geneva | Stabilization of dendritic crystal growth by the Gibbs-Thomson effect |
| Fri 30 Mar 90 | M. Tom | Dept. of Mathematics, P.S.U. | The existence of global smooth solutions to equations for nonlinear, dispersive phenomena |
| Fri 6 Apr 90 | No seminar: Three Rivers Colloquium, Pittsburgh | — | — |
| Fri 13 Apr 90 | S. Deutsch | Applied Res. Lab., P.S.U. | Drag reduction from microbubbles |
| Tue 17 Apr 90 | O.A. Karakashian | Dept. of Mathemetics, Univ. of Tennessee | Implicit Runge-Kutta methods for evolution equations |
| Fri 20 Apr 90 | R.L. Sachs | Dept. of Math., George Mason Univ. | Variational characterization of multi-solitons and their stability |
| Fri 27 Apr 90 | R. Kohn | Courant Inst. of Mathematical Science | Variational modelling of coherent phase transitions |