Applied Mathematics Seminars — Spring 1993

Applied Mathematics Seminars

Penn State University: 1992–93 Session
Time: 4:30 PM, Room: 102 McAllister
SPRING SEMESTER 1993

Converted from past_seminars/cam_colloquium/spring93.dvi (DVI) — 17 talks.

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
Fri 15 Jan A. Borhan Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University The effect of surfactants on the motion of drops in bounded domains
Fri 22 Jan B. Voight Dept. of Earth & Mineral Science, Penn State Univ. Flow phenomena associated with volcanic eruptions
Fri 29 Jan C. Thierry Dept. of Mathematics, ENS, Cachan, France Smoothing effects for dispersive equations via a generalized Wigner tramsform
Fri 5 Feb H.Y. Zha Computer Science Dept., Penn State University Fast Numerical Algorithms for Solving General Hankel and Toeplitz Linear Systems
Fri 12 Feb J.S. Qin Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State University The convergence properties of some simple finite elements for incompressible flows
Fri 19 Feb A. Nachbin Dept. of Mathematics, New Jersey Inst. of Technology Stable methods for vortex sheet motion in the presence of surface tension
Fri 26 Feb S.J. Tavener Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State University Stability of flow in a pipe with a sudden expansion
Fri 5 Mar K.N. Godev Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State University Equilibrium in nematic liquid crystals: the Leslie-Ericksen model
Fri 26 Mar R.T. Glassey Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Landau damping
Mon 29 Mar A. Brandt Dept. of Applied Math. & Comp. Sci., The Weizman Institute Multi-resolution (multigrid) and scientific computations
Fri 2 Apr S. Jensen Dept. of Math., Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County On p and h - p versions of some finite element methods and the stability of first order partial differential operators
Fri 9 Apr M. Shearer Dept. of Math., North Carolina State Univ. Travelling-wave solutions of the modified KdV-Burgers equation
Fri 16 Apr V.I. Polezhaev Head, Inst. for Problems in Mech., Russian Acad. Sci., Moscow Simulation of crystal growth of gallium arsenide
Fri 23 Apr R. Winther Institute for Informatics, University of Oslo Front tracking applied to hyperbolic conservation laws with reaction terms
Fri 23 Apr R.E. Bank Dept. of Math., Univ. of California San Diego Title to be announced
Thurs 29 Apr M. Golubitsky Dept. of Math., Univ. of Houston & Fields Institute, Waterloo Symmetry and Chaos: Patterns on Average
Fri 30 Apr B.L. Keyfitz Dept. of Math., Univ. of Houston & Fields Institute, Waterloo Wave propagation without hyperbolicity: Nonlinear effects and Riemann problems in equations that change type