Location and time: Penn State University Department of Mathematics 102 McAllister Building Tuesday 4:00pm-5:00pm Hosts: Maria-Carme T. Calderer  and   Jinchao Xu

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
01/16/2001	Maria-Carme T. Calderer (Penn State)	New mathematical trends of liquid crystal research
02/06/2001	Mejdi Azaiez (Toulouse, France)	To be announced
02/27/2001	Zhenyu Huang, visiting associate professor at PSU, Associate Professor of Nanjing University, China	Improvements on finding solutions of operator equations
03/13/2001	Jon Jacobsen, Penn State	The Liouville-Gelfand problem
03/20/2001	Andreas Prohl, University of Kiel, Germany	Approximation of Liquid Crystal Flows
04/03/2001	Anand Jayaraman, Penn State	An Overview of the falling sphere problem
04/10/2001	Achi Brandt, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel	On solving the equations of elementary particles
04/17/2001	Chun Liu, Penn State University	Variational methods in complex fluids