Penn State University: 1996–97 Session
Time: 3:30PM–4:30PM , Room: 102 McAllister
SPRING SEMESTER 1997
Converted from
past_seminars/cam_colloquium/spring97.dvi(DVI) — 20 talks.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 17 | Maria-Carme T Calderer | Penn State | A mathematician’s perspective of partially ordered systems of condensed matter |
| January 24 | Chun Liu | Carnegie-Mellon | Focal Conic Structures and Ginzburg-Landau Functional |
| Jan 31 | Jinchao Xu | Penn State | Multilevel Methods for Solving PDEs Discretized with Unstructured Grids |
| Feb 7 | Liz Bradley | University of Colorado | something on nonlinear dynamics, control theory, AI and so on |
| Feb 14 | Oleg Lavrentovich | Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State U. | Dupine Cyclides in Liquid Crystals: Focal Conic Domains and Other Patterns |
| Feb 21 | Evgenii Khruslov | Ukranian Academy of Science. | Splitting of nonlocalized solutions of nonlinear evolution equations into solitons |
| Feb 28 | X. C. Cai | Univ. of Colorado | Parallel Schwarz Methods and Their Applications in Nonlinear and Unsteady Compressible Flow Simulations |
| March 7 | Phil Holmes | Princeton University | Poincar’e’s mistake and the origins of “chaos theory” |
| March 21 | Benqi Guo | UT Austin | Inexact Sovlers on Element Interfaces |
| March 25 | George Karniadakis | Brown University | Spectral Methods on Polymorphic Domains |
| 4 | 00pm____ Note: special day! | — | — |
| March 28 | Michael Vogelius | Rutgus | Mathematical Modeling of Corroding Surfaces |
| April 4 | Michael M Dougherty | Penn State University, Berks Campus | Regularity of equilibria for polyconvex functionals in the calculus of variations |
| April 11 | Amir Hirsa | Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY | Hydrodynamic coupling of viscoelastic gas/liquid interfaces |
| April 18 | Thomas Little | University of Minnesota/ University of Texas at Arlington | Nonlinear Homogenization and Polycrystal Plasticity |
| April 21 | John Bush | University of Cambridge, United Kingdom | The us Wake Accompanying Bubbles Rising in a Thin Gap: A Mechanically Forced Marangoni Flow |
| April 25 | Y. L. Chen | National Taiwan University | Difference Wavelets— An Efficient Expansion Method for Functions and Operators |
| April 28 | Y. M. Zhang | University of Chicago | Numerical Solution of Two Free Boundary Problems |
| May 2 | X. R. Wang | Ohio State | Applications of Mathematical methods in Geological exploration |
| May 9 | M. Holst | Cal Tech | Adaptive multilevel finite element methods on manifolds with applications in relativity physics and biology |