Applied Math Student Seminar


The seminar will run almost every week. Talks will take place on Wednesdays in 901 Van Vleck at 3:45pm unless otherwise noted. Topics include, but are not limited to, partial differential equations, scientific computing, applied mathematics, and stochastic differential equations. Speakers and titles are listed below.



Spring 2008 Schedule

Jan 30th: Planning meeting
Feb 6th: Ben Akers - Limiting Water Wave Models
Feb 13th: No Seminar this week
Feb 20th: Special lecture by Prof. Paul Milewski
Feb 27th: Special lecture by Prof. Paul Milewski
Mar 5th: Special lecture by Prof. Paul Milewski
Mar 12th: Alec Johnson - Waves in Plasmas
Mar 19th: Spring Break - no seminar
Mar 26th: CANCELLED
Apr 2nd: Jeff Haack - Sound Waves in Low Mach-Number flow ,
Peng Qi - Symplectic and Multisymplectic schemes for the KdV Equation
Apr 16th: Li Wang - A fast spectral algorithm for nonlinear wave equations with linear dispersion
Jingwei Hu - The forced KdV equation as a model for waves generated by topography
Apr 23rd: Julie Simons - Waves in Biology
Apr 30th: Qiang Deng - The Radial Spread of a Liquid Jet Over a Horizontal Plate
Bokai Yan - A Pseudospectral Method for Nonlinear Wave Equations
May 5, 9:30 AM: Xu Yang - Numerical Methods for Multiscale Kinetic Transport and High Frequency Waves
May 14th: Li Wang - A Reduced Model For Rotational Flows
Daniela Banu - Methods of Dispersal in Biological Systems
Gokul Vishwanathan
Nadheesh Bharadwaj


Previous Semesters

If you would like to give a talk, ask a question, or make a comment please contact haack at math dot wisc dot edu.