| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
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| 25 Jan 2008 | Chensong Zhang, Penn State University | Adaptive Methods for Parabolic Variational Inequalities with Applications in Finance |
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| 1 Feb 2008 | James Anderson, Penn State University, Department of Chemistry | Quantum Monte Carlo |
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8 Feb 2008
MB114 | Jay Gopalakrishnan, University of Florida | Some Finite Element Techniques and Applications |
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11 Feb 2008
MB114
4:00pm - 5:00pm | Clayton Webster, Sandia National Labs | A Dimension-Adpative Sparse Grid Stochastic Collocation Technique for Partial Differential Equations with High-Dimensional Random Input Data |
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12 Feb 2008
3:55pm - 5:10pm | James Brannick, Penn State, Department of Mathematics | Recent advances in algorithms for lattice simulations of low-energy Quantum Chromo--Dynamics |
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| 15 Feb 2008 | DeWitt Sumners, Florida State University | Random Knotting and Viral DNA Packing: Theory and Experiments |
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| 22 Feb 2008 | Keith Promislow, Michigan State University | Pore formation in Polymer Electrolytes |
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| 29 Feb 2008 | Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University | Shock Reflection-Diffraction, Transonic Flow, and Free Boundary Problems |
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| 7 Mar 2008 | Ken Chen, Sandia National Laboratories | Modeling/Simulating PEM Fuel-Cell Performance and Water Transport |
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| 14 Mar 2008 | Spring Break, No Seminar | To Be Announced |
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18 Mar 2008
MB315
4:00pm - 5:00pm | Scott P. MacLachlan, Tufts University | A Summary of Multilevel Iterative Solvers |
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| 21 Mar 2008 | Andrew Christlieb, Michigan State University | A step towards temporal multi-scale problems |
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| 28 Mar 2008 | Hailiang Liu, Iowa State University | Alternating evolution, flux approximation and the level set method |
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| 4 Apr 2008 | David Levermore, University of Maryland | Weakly Nonlinear-Dissipative Approximations of Hyperbolic-Parabolic Systems with Entropy |
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| 11 Apr 2008 | Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California | Conditional regularity and thin domain results for solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations |
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18 Apr 2008
MB114
2:40pm - 3:40pm | Junping Wang, Division of Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation | On Interface Conditions and Numerical Methods for a Coupled Fluid Flow System |
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| 2 May 2008 | Jun Zhang, Courant Institute, New York University | Anomalous behavior of flexible, flapping bodies in fluid |
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| 12 Sep 2008 | Reza Malek-Madani, U. S. Naval Academy | Some recent analytical and computational results in geophysical fluid |
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| 19 Sep 2008 | Warren Weckesser, Enthought, Inc. | A New Conserved Quantity for the Kermack-McKendrick Epidemic Model |
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| 3 Oct 2008 | Blake Temple, University of California, Davis | A Family of Expanding Wave Solutions of the Einstein Equations that Includes the Standard Model of Cosmology |
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| 10 Oct 2008 | Steve Dong, Purdue University | A High-Order Method for 3D Nonlinear Elastodynamics |
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| 24 Oct 2008 | Jean-Luc Guermond, Texas A&M | Construction techniques for suitable weak solutions for the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations |
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| 31 Oct 2008 | Dirk Hundertmark, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Why are dirty metals bad conductors? |
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| 7 Nov 2008 | Edriss Titi , UC Irvine and Weizmann Institute | On the Question of Global Regularity for Three-dimensional Navier-Stokes Equations and Relevant Geophysical Models |
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| 14 Nov 2008 | Abhay Ashtekar , Department of Physics, Penn State | Approaching space-like singularities in general relativity |
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| 21 Nov 2008 | Elena Kartashova, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria | Introduction to the theory of nonlinear resonances |
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| 28 Nov 2008 | Thanksgiving break | No colloquium |
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| 5 Dec 2008 | Robin Young, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Towards Shock-Free Periodic Solutions for the Euler Equations |
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| 12 Dec 2008 | Vadim Zharnitsky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Quasilinear dynamics in nonlinear Schroedinger equations |
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