Applied Math Seminar
 
    This seminar is a joint seminar in Nonlinear Analysis,
    
 
    PDE, Materials Science, Fluid Mechanics, and Applied Math, 
    
 
    organized in past years by Jingyi Zhu, Mark Lewis, Andrej Cherkaev, 
    Klaus Schmitt, 
 
    Grant Gustafson, Richard McLaughlin, Graeme Milton, Sasha Balk, 
    and Ken Golden. 
 
    To subscribe, send email to an organizer or 
    to applied-math-request@math.utah.edu. 
Click here for the earlier Lectures during Fall 1995 - Spring 2000
      September 5: 
   
    Valery Smyshlyaev (University of Bath, UK)  
   
    High frequency diffraction by smooth and non-smooth obstacles: 
    asymptotics and numerics      
   
 
     ABSTRACT,
  Note the day change - TUESDAY  
      September 11: 
      Andrejs E. Treibergs (U of U, Math) 
      Stability for Zhu's combustion problem:
      The evolution of plane curves by a nonlocal curvature flow
      
  
     ABSTRACT
      September 18: 
     Arcady Chipouline  (U of U, Physics) 
      On the question of optical properties of micro/nanostructures
      
  
     ABSTRACT
      October 9: 
     Graeme W. Milton (U of U, Math)
      Partial differential microstructures 
  
     ABSTRACT
      October 23: 
      Jack P. Simons (U of U, Chemistry) 
      Electronic Structure Theory - One of the Three Branches of Theoretical Chemistry 
  
     ABSTRACT
      October 31: 
      Nicholas D. Alikakos (University of Athens and BYU)
      Perturbation  Problems  In  Geometric  Evolution 
  
      ABSTRACT,
  Note the day change - TUESDAY  
      November 6: 
      Thomas E. Cheatham, III (U of U, Medicinal Chemistry) 
      Issues and successes in molecular dynamics simulations of nucleic acid
structure, dynamics and energetics 
  
      ABSTRACT
      November 27: 
      Karl B. Glasner (U of U, Math) 
      Optimal Transport, Diffuse Fluid Interfaces, 
 and the Hele-Shaw Problem 
  
      ABSTRACT
      Speakers are needed for 2000-2001!  
  
      Please contact David Eyre (801-581-8340, eyre@math.utah.edu) 
   
      
      or Sergey Serkov (801-581-6638, serkov@math.utah.edu).