UD Math Sciences Department
Applied Math Seminar

Spring 2002


Feb. 4, 4:00
Special day/time
Karl Glasner
Duke University
Dissipative fluid systems and gradient flows

Feb. 7, 2:00
Special time
John Pelesko
Georgia Tech
Mathematical modeling of microsystems

Feb. 11, 4:00
Special day/time
Alina Chertock
UC Berkeley
Particle methods for dispersive equations

Feb. 13, 2:00
Special day/time
Beatrice Riviere
University of Texas
Discontinuous Galerkin methods for solving flow and transport problems

Feb. 21 George Hsiao
University of Delaware
Boundary integral equations: A 30-year collaboration

Feb. 28 Cancelled Go to Strichartz lecture on undergraduate research experiences instead

Mar. 7 Ivar Stakgold
University of Delaware
Diffusion with strong absorption

Mar. 14, 10-11
Special time
Wolfgang L. Wendland
University of Stuttgart
A residual-based error estimator for BEM-discretizations of contact problems

Mar. 14, 1:30-2:30 Lou Rossi
University of Delaware
The fate of multipolar rotating structures: A result from the inverse cascade in 2D fluid flows

Mar. 21 Gunduz Caginalp
University of Pittsburgh
Renormalization and scaling methods in applied mathematics

Mar. 28 David Olagunju
University of Delaware
Elastic instabilities in viscoelastic torsional flow

Apr. 10, 2:30-3:30
Special day/time
Stephen Lucas
University of South Australia
Maximizing output from oil wells without water breakthrough

Apr. 11 Tasha Inniss
Trinity College
Weather or terrorism: Mitigating delay using stochastic models of airport arrival capacity

Apr. 18 Philip Broadbridge
University of Delaware
Exact solutions of nonlinear boundary value problems for unsaturated flow

Apr. 25 Florian Potra
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Kantorovich theorem and nonlinear programming

May 2 Robert Waag
University of Rochester
Ultrasonic imaging research at the University of Rochester

May 9 Alexander Panchenko
Penn State University
Effective acoustic models of porous media

Fall 2001


Sept. 18 Prof. David Edwards
University of Delaware
Secondary effects in the measurement of rate constants

Sept. 25 Prof. Peter Monk
University of Delaware
Finite elements for Maxwell's equations

Oct. 2 Prof. Toby Driscoll
University of Delaware
A survey of Schwarz-Christoffel conformal mapping

Oct. 10, 4:00 PM
Special day/time
Prof. Jan Hesthaven
Brown University
High-order/spectral unstructured grid methods for time-domain electromagnetics

Oct. 16 Prof. Richard Pelz
Rutgers University
On the hydrodynamic blowup problem

Oct. 24, 4:00 PM
Special day/time
Dr. Joe Lingevitch
Naval Research Lab
Applications of parabolic equations to linear waves in fluids

Oct. 30 Dr. Mikhail Khenner
University of Delaware
Numerical modeling for crystal growth from vapor on a masked substrate

Nov. 6 Prof. Gino Biondini
Ohio State University
Estimating the reliability of optical communication systems

Nov. 12, 4:00 PM
Special day/time
Dr. Ferdi Hendriks
IBM
To fly over a disk: modelling and design of air bearings for hard disk drives

Nov. 20 Dr. Pat Hagan
Nomura Securities
View from the (trading) pits: Research needs in derivatives

Nov. 27 Prof. Chris Elmer
New Jersey Institute of Technology
An introduction to discretized reaction-diffusion equations: Traveling wave solutions, applications, and phenomena (Abstract)

Dec. 4 Prof. Cynthia A. DeBisschop
Old Dominion University
Bounded film evolution with nonlinear surface properties (Abstract)

Toby Driscoll
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