Penn State University: 1993–94 Session
Time: 4:30 PM, Room: 103 McAllister
SPRING SEMESTER 1994
Converted from
past_seminars/cam_colloquium/spring94.dvi(DVI) — 16 talks.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 14 Jan | L. Gibiansky | Dept. of Civil Engrng, Princeton Univ. | Variational bounds on the effective properties of composites |
| Fri 21 Jan | W. Phillips | Dept. of Mech. & Aero. Engrng, Clarkson University | Instability to wave catalyzed longitudinal vortices in strong shear |
| Fri 28 Jan | P. Weidman | Dept. of Mechanical Engrng, Univ. of Colorado | Large amplitude solitary wave reflection from a vertical wall: the phase shift paradox |
| Fri 4 Feb | Fadil Santosa | Dept. of Mathematics, University of Delaware | Imaging the interior of a domain by electrical measurements: practical issues |
| Fri 11 Feb | C.E. Wayne | Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State University | The Renormalization Group and partial differential equations |
| Fri 18 Feb | N. Firoozye | Courant Institute of Math’l Sciences | Extensions of Wiener’s theorem, the spectral asymptotics of measures, and applications to image segmentation |
| Fri 25 Feb | C. Gartland | Liquid Crystal Instuite, Kent State University | Numerical Minimization of the Landau-deGennes Free Energy for Liquid Crystals |
| Mon 28 Feb | T. Bridges | Mathematisches Institut, Univ. of Stuttgart | Geometric instability criteria for periodic and quasiperiodic waves |
| Fri 4 Mar | B. Kellogg | Dept. of Mathematics, University of Maryland | Analysis and numerical analysis of the “compressible Stokes system” |
| Fri 18 Mar | D. Keyes | ICASE, Langley Air Force Base | Newton-Krylov-Schwarz Methods for computational fluid dynamics |
| Fri 25 Mar | R. Fosdick | Dept. of Aero. Engrg & Mech., Univ. of Minnesota | Torsion of an elastic cylinder with a nonconvex energy |
| Fri 1 Apr | P. Pulffy-Muhorey | Liquid Crystal Instuite, Kent State University | Polymerization induced phase separation in polymetric liquid-crystal systems |
| Fri 8 Apr | Three Rivers Colloquium | — | — |
| Mon 11 Apr | J. Marsden | Dept. of Mathematics and EECS, Univ. of California-Berkeley | Geometric Mechanics and Locomotion Generation To be held in 117 Classroom Building |
| Fri 15 Apr | S. Khibnik | Russian Acad. of Sci., Pushchino, & Center for Appl. Math., Cornell Univ. | Numerical algorithms for bifurcation analysis of dynamical systems and the related software |
| Fri 22 Apr | A. Bertozzi | Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Chicago | Thin films and degenerate diffusion equations |