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Applied Math & PDE Seminar
Department of Mathematics
University of Wisconsin

When: Wednesdays & Fridays at 2:25pm (see detailed schedule below)
Where: 901 Van Vleck Hall


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Fall 2009 Semester: (CLICK ON TITLE TO SEE ABSTRACT)

Date Speaker Title (click to see abstract)
Sept. 4 (Friday)
Jian-Guo Liu,
Duke University
Modeling and analysis of collective behavior of self-propelled agents
Sept. 11 (Friday)
Ben Akers,
University of Illinois at Chicago
Application of perturbation series
Sept. 18 (Friday)
Benedetta Pellacci,
Università degli Studi di Napoli
Semiclassical limit for weakly coupled nonlinear Schrodinger systems
*** Different location ***
Sept. 21 (Monday)
B135 Van Vleck
Patricio Felmer,
Universidad de Chile
Liouville type theorems for nonlinear elliptic equations
*** Computer Science ***
Oct. 8 (Thursday, 4pm)
3310 Computer Science
Andrew Wathen,
University of Oxford
Matrix iterations and KKT systems: from optimization to Navier-Stokes and back
Oct. 9 (Friday)
Ammar Hakim,
Tech-X Corporation
High-order moment equations for simulation of fast magnetohydrodynamics
Oct. 16 (Friday)
Jeffrey Banks,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
High-order and adaptive methods for laser-plasma interaction problems
*** Different location ***
Oct. 19 (Monday)
B135 Van Vleck
Willy Hereman,
Colorado School of Mines
Symbolic computation of conservation laws of nonlinear partial differential equations
Oct. 23 (Friday)
Kevin Mitchell,
University of California Merced
Using invariant manifolds to classify chaotic transport pathways in mixed phase space
Oct. 28 (Wednesday)
Mark Remmel,
UW-Mathematics
New PDE reduced models for geophysical flows
Oct. 30 (Friday)
Lexing Ying,
University of Texas at Austin
Some results on fast algorithms of electron structure calculation
Nov. 6 (Friday)
Jue Wang,
Union College
Attenuation compensation and boundary segmentation in ultrasound images
Nov. 13 (Friday)
Andrej Zlatos,
University of Chicago
Traveling fronts in combustible media
Nov. 18 (Wednesday)
Cory Hauck,
Oak Ridge National Lab
Optimization-based closures for radiation transport
*** Special AMPDE Seminar ***
Nov. 18 (Wednesday, 4pm)
B239 Van Vleck
Mike Candall,
UC-Santa Barbara
Almost global solutions of Eikonal equations
Nov. 20 (Friday)
David Bortz,
University of Colorado at Boulder
Fragmentation and aggregation of bacterial emboli
*** Math Colloquium ***
Nov. 20 (Friday, 4pm)
B239 Van Vleck
Mike Candall,
UC-Santa Barbara
Absolutely minimizing functions, the infinity Laplacian, and all that
Dec. 2 (Wednesday)
Xu Yang,
Princeton University
Semi-Eulerian and higher order Gaussian beam methods for the Schrödinger equation in the semiclassical regime
Dec. 4 (Friday)
Carl Sovinec,
UW-Engineering Physics
Numerical computation for low-frequency dynamics in magnetized plasma
Dec. 11 (Friday)
Henri Berestycki,
Centre d'Analyse et de Mathématique Sociales, Paris, France
TBA


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