Applied Mathematics Seminars — Spring 1994

Applied Mathematics Seminars

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