Colloquium  1999-2000


Sep 9 Speaker: Thomas Bartsch, Giessen University
Title: Sign-changing Solutions for Nonlinear Elliptic Problems

 

Sep 23 Speaker: Toshio Yoshikawa, Utah State University
Title: A Variational Approach to the Strongly Nonlinear Regime of the Raleigh-Taylor Instability.

Oct 11 Speaker: Carl M. Bender, Washington University
Title: Dimensional Behavior of Physics

 

Oct 21 Speaker: Vladimir E. Shklover, Northwestern University
Title: Schiffer Problem and Isoparametric Hypersurfaces

 

Oct 28 Speaker: David Eyre, University of Utah
Title: Barrier-less Nucleation in Multicomponent Materials

 

Nov 11 Speaker: Jacek Szmigielski, University of Saskatchewan
Title: Peakons, Classical Inhomogeneous String and the Toda Lattice

 

Nov 18 Speaker: Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah
Title:Analytical Properties of Brownian Sheet

 

Nov 30 Speaker: Jerrold Marsden, California Institute of Technology
Title: Variational Integrators and the Newmark Algorithm for Conservative and Dissipative Mechanical Systems

 

Dec 2 Speaker: Michael McCooey, McMaster University
Title: Symmetry Groups of Four-manifolds

 

Dec 9 Speaker: Norman Lebovitz, University of Chicago
Title: Anatomy of a Hydrodynamic Instability

 

Feb 10 Speaker: Mark J. Gotay, University of Hawaii
Title: Obstructions to Quantization

 

Mar 2 Speaker: Peter Jones, Yale University
Title: The Traveling Salesman Meets Large Data Sets

 

Mar 23 Speaker: Cornelius Pillen, University of South Alabama
Title: Representations of Finite Chevalley Groups in their Defining Characteristics

 

Apr 26 Speaker: Yihong Du, University of New England, Austrailia
Title: Realizations of Prescribed Patterns in Some Semilinear Equations

 


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