Fall 2007 Schedule
Sept 12th : Benjamin Akers - Fractional Derivatives Sept 19th : Jeff Haack - Vibrations of a Fluid-Carrying Plate Sept 26th : Antonio Ache - Conservation laws for NLS Oct 3rd : Alec Johnson - The analogy between vorticity and magnetic field in MHD Oct 10th : Hao Wu - Hybrid Particle Method Oct 17th : Special Seminar - Barry Simon Oct 24th: Please attend the Mathematics Colloqium Oct 31st : Daniela Banu - An Inverse Scattering Transform Approach for the KDV Equation Nov 7th : Shane Hubler - Complexity Analysis of Peptide Identification by Mass Nov 14th : Yingzhe Shi - Fast Gauss Transform Nov 21st : Thanksgiving Nov 28th : postponed Dec 5th: Xu Yang - Numerical computation of radiative transfer equation with interfaces Dec 12th : Rohini Kumar - A stochastic approach to deterministic boundary value problems

Spring 2007 Schedule

Jan 31st : Benjamin Akers - Solitons
Feb 7th : Mike Schroeder - Using finite differences to solve the inverse problem
Feb 14th : Blythe Hazellief - Parabolic Equation Approximation to the Elliptic Wave Equation
Feb 21st : Applied Math Seminar, 2:25
Feb 28th : Applied Math Seminar, 2:25
Mar 7th : Applied Math Seminar, 2:25
Mar 14th: Jeff Haack - The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem and the development of nonlinear science
Mar 21st : Applied Math Seminar, 2:25
Mar 28th : Alec Johnson - Fundamental equations of plasmas
Apr 4th : No Seminar, Spring Break
Apr 11th : Benjamin Akers - Dynamics of Gravity Capillary Waves
Apr 18th : Yingzhe Shi - Multispecies models
Apr 25th : Julie Simons - Swimming in Low Reynold Number Fluids

Fall 2006 Schedule
Sept 13th : Benjamin Akers - Steady Numerical Solutions to Nonlinear PDE's Sept 20th : Julie Simons - Bacterial Chemotaxis: a Population-Level Comparison Sept 27th : No talk today, please attend Boris Gershgorin's AMPDE seminar. Oct 4th : Jeff Haack - A pseudospectral integrating factor method for numerically solving nonlinear wave equations Oct 11th : Melinda Moran - Kelvin Ship Waves Oct 18th : Blythe Hazellief - The Complex Step Derivative Oct 25th : Xu Yang - Asymptotic Methods for the Reduced Wave Equation Nov 1st : No talk today, Please attend Andrew Majda's Distiguished Lecture. Nov 8th : No talk today, Please attend Michel Rascle's AMPDE seminar. Nov 15th: Alec Johnson - A Kinetic Derivation of Basic Conservation Laws for Plasmas. Nov 22nd : No Seminar - Thanksgiving Nov 29th : Nathan Panike - Stochastic simulation of Diffusion Processes Dec 6th : Qiang Deng - Adaptive Finite Element Methods

Spring 2006 Schedule
Jan 25th : Melinda Moran - A nonlocal continuum model for biological aggregation Feb 1st : Alec Johnson - Proofs of the Fundamental Theorem of Numerical Analysis Feb 8th : Benjamin Akers - From KDV to NLS: When waves are packets Feb 15th : Blythe Hazellief - A Derivation of the KDV equation Feb 22nd : Xu Yang - Renormalized solution to the transport equation with non-smooth coefficients Mar 1st : Julie Simons - Multiscale Modeling and Bacteria Mar 8th : no seminar today Mar 15th : Spring Break Mar 22nd : Jeffrey Haack - A fast sweeping method for the eikonal equations Mar 29th : Diego Galindo - Existence of Solutions to Hyperbolic PDE's Apr 5th : Benjamin Akers - Absorbing Boundary Conditions Apr 12th : Mark Remmel - Incompressible Fluid Flow Apr 19th : Hye Won Kang - The viral infection model with Markov processes Apr 26th : Chin Wu - An amazing freak wave May 3rd : Anne Jorstad - A Finite Element Discretization of the Stokes Equations in an Axisymmetric Domain

Fall 2005 Schedule
Sept 14th : Benjamin Akers - Shallow Water Flow through Contraction I Sept 21st : Benjamin Akers - Shallow Water Flow through Contraction II Sept 28th : Kyle Novak - A Mixed Classical-Quantum Transport Model Oct 5th : Lonqing Wu - Some Methods for Multiscale Problems Oct 12th : Xu Yang - Domain Decomposition Method for a Two-Scale Transport Equation Oct 19th : Julie Simons - Initiation of Slime Mold Aggregation Viewed as an Instability Oct 26th : Mark Remmel - Balanced Equations and Energy Spectra Nov 2nd : Diego Galindo - Asymptotics to a Self-Similar Solution to the Euler Poisson Equations Nov 9nd : Colloquium Nov 16nd :Frank Thorne - Turing Instabilities in Reaction-Diffusion Equations Nov 23nd : Thanksgiving Nov 30nd : Jared English - The Solitary Wave in a Chain of Beads Dec 6th : Xiaomei Liao - Elastic Waves

Fall 2007 Schedule