Applied Mathematics Seminars — Spring 1992

Applied Mathematics Seminars

Penn State University: 1991–92 Session
Time: 4:30 PM, Room: 116 McAllister
SPRING SEMESTER 1992

Converted from past_seminars/cam_colloquium/spring92.dvi (DVI) — 18 talks.

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
Fri 24 Jan Marcia Scialom Dept. of Math., State Univ. of Campinas, Brazil Lp - Lq estimates for nonlinear dispersive equations
Fri 31 Jan Jose Linares Dept. of Math., PSU Davey-Stewartson systems for water waves
Fri 7 Feb Phil Gresho Lawrence Livermore National Labs Some current issues in viscous incompressible flow
Fri 14 Feb Shangyou Zhang Dept. of Math., Univ. of Delaware Multigrid computation of vector potentials
Fri 21 Feb Michael Vogelius Dept. of Math., Rutgers Univ. An inverse problem originating from magnetohydrodynamics
Fri 28 Feb John Crawford Dept. of Physics and Astro., Univ. of Pittsburgh Symmetric normal form theories for parametrically excited surface waves: mode interactions and hidden symmetry
Fri 6 Mar Todd Dupont Depts. of Math and Comp. Sci., Univ. of Chicago Drop formation in Hele Shaw cells
Mon 16 Mar David Kinderlehrer Dept. of Math. and Ctr. for Nonlinear Anal., Carnegie Mellon Univ. A theory of magnetostriction with application
Fri 20 Mar Charalambos G. Makridakis Dept. of Math., Univ. of Maryland Finite element methods for nonlinear elastodynamics
Mon 23 March Walter Craig Dept. of Math., Brown University Numerical computations of gravity waves
Wed 25 March Jean-Michel Ghidaglia Ecole Normale Sup’erieure Improved regularity of solutions for elliptic equations involving Jacobians
Fri 27 Mar Ram Kanwal Dept. of Math., PSU Asymptotic analysis made easy
30 March – 2 April Jacques-Louis Lions Coll’ege de France Marker lectures on Controllability of Distributed Systems
Fri 3 Apr Diane Henderson Dept. of Math., PSU Boundary effects on standing waves
Fri 10 Apr No seminar: Three Rivers Colloquium
Fri 17 Apr David McLaughlin Princeton Univ. Whiskered tori for the nonlinear Schrodinger equations
Fri 24 Apr Jim Bramble Dept. of Math., Cornell Univ. Preconditioned iterative methods for calculatiing eigenvalues and eigenvectors of symmetric systems
Fri 1 May Marco Avellaneda Courant Institute, New York Univ. Mathematical aspects of renormalization problem for turbulent transport