Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar Series

Penn State University
Department of Mathematics
Fridays, 3:30-4:30 PM
102 McAllister Building

Fall 1999

08/07/99	Vilmos Gaspar Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary Host: A. Belmonte	Control of chemical chaos
08/27/99	No seminar this week
09/03/99	Jon Jacobsen Penn State Host: S. Tavener	Bifurcation Problems Associated with Monge-Ampere Operators
09/010/99	Ragnar Winther University of Oslo Host: D. Arnold	A robust nonconforming H² element
09/17/99	Epifanio Virga University of Pavia Host: C. Calderer	Dynamics of vesicles subject to adhesion
09/24/99	Chuck Gartland Kent State University Host: C. Calderer	Defects in Liquid Crystal Droplets: Numerical and Analytical Results from a Landau-de Gennes Model
10/01/99	Peter Veerman Penn State University Host: S. Tavener	Geometrical model for a particle on a rough inclined surface Rescheduled for Monday, October 18, 4:30--5:30pm, 311 Boucke Building
10/08/99	Seymour Parter University of Wisconsin Host: J. Shen	Preconditioning Legendre Spectral Collocation Methods for Elliptic Problems: Finite Difference Operators and Finite Element Operators
10/15/99	Jerry Bona University of Texas at Austin Host: J. Li	Initial-boundary-value problems arising in modelling long-waves
10/22/99	Robert Kohn Courant Institute Host: C. Calderer	From step motion laws to surface evolution laws
10/29/99	Peter Palffy-Muhoray Kent State Host: C. Calderer	Ratchets at Work: Molecular Motors in the Photoalignment of Liquid Crystals
11/05/99	David Olagunju University of Delaware Host: A. Belmonte	Bifurcations and transition to chaos in viscoelastic torsional flow
11/12/99	Steven Damelin Penn State Host: D. Arnold	Lagrange interpolation on the real line
11/19/99	Dan Meiron Caltech Host: C. Calderer	* CANCELLED *
12/03/99		Scheduling conflict: No seminar this week
12/10/99	Mary Pugh University of Pennsylvania Host: S. Tavener	Long-wave unstable thin film equations --- singularities, steady states, and their properties
12/17/99	Ivo Babuska University of Texas at Austin Host: J. Xu	Can we trust the results we are getting by FEM ? * 312 Boucke *

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