January 11: Andrej 
Cherkaev and Sasha Balk (U of U Math) 
 Dynamics of solids with non-monotone stress-strain 
relations
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January 18: Holiday
January 25: Leonid 
Gibiansky (Globomax LLC)
 Multiphase composites with extremal bulk modulus
 ABSTRACT
February 1: Davar 
Khoshnevisan (U of U Math) 
 Martingales on trees and percolation
 ABSTRACT 
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February 8: Yanguang 
(Charles) Li (Pinceton IAS)
 Existence of chaos in perturbed cubic nonlinear 
Schroedinger equation.
 ABSTRACT
February 15: Holiday
February 16: Davar 
Khoshnevisan (U of U Math) 
 Martingales on trees and percolation
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 Note: this is Substitute day - Tuesday by Monday's 
schedule
February 22: Mark 
Mineev-Weinstein (Los Alamos)
 Selection of the Saffman-Taylor Finger Width 
 in the Absence of Surface Tension: an Exact Result
 ABSTRACT
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March 1: Aaron 
Fogelson(U. of U. Math)
 Computational Modeling of Blood Clotting: 
 Platelet Aggregation and Coagulation
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 Joint seminar of appl. math and math biology 
March 8: Robert 
Lipton (WPI Math)
 Optimal fiber configurations for maximum torsional 
rigidity 
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March 12:
 Andrea Bertozzi (Duke Math and Physics)
 Undercompressive Shocks in Thin Film Flows
 ABSTRACT 
 Special Seminar - note Day, Time, and Room change: 
Friday, 3:05 pm, JTB 110
March 15: Spring Break
March 22: Thomas 
Hillen (U of U Math) 
 Reductions of Reaction-Transport-Equations
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March 29: Dan 
Meiron (Caltech) 
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March 29: David 
Eyre and Graeme Milton (U of U Math)
 Using analyticity to check the consistency of 
experimental measurements
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April 5: Elizabeth 
Bradley (U of Colorado Computer Science)
 Chaos and Control
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April 12:
 Richard Schapery (U of Texas Aerospace Engineering)
 Constitutive Equations for Viscoelastic Composites 
with Growing
 Damage and their Application to a Particulate 
Composite
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April 19: Klaus 
Schmitt (U of U Math)
 Critical points of some non coercive functionals and 
sub harmonic solutions
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 Note Room Change - JTB 110
April 22: Markku 
Miettinen ( U of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
 Necessary conditions for G-closure in linear 
conductivity
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 Special Seminar. Note Day and Room change - 
Thursday, JTB 110
April 26: Robert 
Jerrard (UI UrbanaCh Math)
 Soliton dynamics in a potential
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