Applied Math Seminar


Spring 1998 Lectures

March 30: Sergei Serkov (U. of U. Math)
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On crack propagation in thermo-elastic media with inhomogeneities

April 6: Peter Weichman (Caltech, Physics)
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Statistical Mechanics, Euler's Equation and Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

April 13: Richard D. Rabbitt (U of U Bioengineering)
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On the sensation of tone:
Asymptotic and physical models of the ear.

April 20: Markku Miettinen (Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
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2-dimensional conductivity problem and quasiconformal mappings

April 24: Toshio Yoshikawa (U. of U. Math)
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Growing Fingers in the Strongly Nonlinear Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability

April 27: Andrey Piatnitski (P.N.Lebedev Physical Inst., Russian Academy of Sciences)
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Averaging of random parabolic operators and diffusion approximation

May 4: Greg Voth (U of U Chemistry)
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A New Perspective on Condensed Phase Quantum Dynamics

May 11: Michael Thorpe (Mich. State Univ.)
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Rigidity in Random Networks

May 18: Raz Kupferman (Berkeley)
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Optimal prediction of underresolved dynamics

May 21: Leonid I. Slepyan (Tel Aviv University)
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Crack Propagation in a Viscoelastic Lattice

May 26: Mark Lewis (U of U Math)
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On the asymptotic speed of a stochastic invasion

June 1: Gieri Simonett (Vanderbilt)
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Motion of surfaces by curvature

June 11: Johannes Gottlieb (University of Karlsruhe)
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Ground Penetrating Radar Modeling and an Inverse Problem for the Maxwell-Hopkinson System