Applied Math/PDE seminar at UW
The Applied Math - PDE seminar at UW
Spring 2006
Friday, January 27
Changfeng Gui, University of Connecticut
Title: Entire Solutions in Phase Transition
Host: Paul Rabinowitz
Abstract
Wednesday, February 8
Alexander Kurganov, Tulane University
Title: Central-Upwind Schemes for Multi-Component
Fluids
Host: Shi Jin
Abstract
Friday, February 17
Marshall Slemrod, UW
Title: Subsonic-sonic gas dynamics
Abstract
Wednesday, February 22
Jaeyoung Byeon, UW
Title: Variational approaches to singularly perturbed
problems
Abstract
Friday, February 24: Colloquium
Alberto Bressan SISSA (Trieste)
Title: TBA
Host: Shi Jin
Wednesday, March 8
Yong-Geun Oh, UW
Title: Towards continuous Hamiltonian dynamics
Abstract
Wednesday, March 29
Abbas Bahri, Rutgers Univ.
Title: Compactness
Host: Paul Rabinowitz
Friday, March 31
Yuval Peres, UC Berkeley
Title: Tug of war and the infinity Laplacian
Abstract
Friday, April 7
Peter Gordon, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Title: Traveling fronts in porous media combustion
Host: Sasha Kiselev
Abstract
Wednesday, April 12
Fabian Waleffe, UW-Madison
Title: Turbulence: What's the problem and what are we doing about it?
Friday, April 14
Divakar Viswanath, Univ. of Michigan
Title: Strange attractors from Lorenz to turbulence
Host: Fabian Waleffe
Abstract
Thursday, April 20. Joint AMPDE-Geometrical Analysis seminar
Gloria Mari Beffa, UW-Madison
Title: Projective-type differential invariants and their associated evolutions of KdV-type
Time: 1:20pm
Room: 901 Van Vleck
Friday, April 21
Irene Gamba, Univ. of Texas, Austin
Title: Self-similar asymptotics for generalized
non-linear kinetic Maxwell models
Host: Shi Jin
Abstract
Friday, April 21: Colloquium
Richard James, Univ. of Minnesota
Title: Lessons on structure from the structure of
viruses
Host: Julie Mitchell
Thursday, April 27, 4 pm, B313 Van Vleck
Alexandre Dutrifoy, Courant Institute and Liberty Univ. of Brussel
Title: Singular Limits for the Equatorial Shallow Water Equations
Host: Shi Jin
Abstract
Friday, April 28
Gennady Piftankin, Moscow State University
Title: Estimate for the speed of energy growth in Mather's problem
Host: Sergey Bolotin
Friday, May 5, 2:25 pm, B131 Van Vleck
Manuel Torrilhon, Princeton University
Title:
Regularized 13-Moment-Equations for Rarefied and Micro-Flows
Host: Shi Jin
Abstract