January 10: Alexander Vikhansky (Mech. Eng., Ben-Gurion U, Israel)
Some free surface problems of granular media
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January 17: No seminar. Martin Luther King/Human Rights Day

January 24: Richard Normann (U of U, Bioengineering)
Representations of sensory and motor information by neuronal ensembles in the vertebrate nervous system
ABSTRACT

January 31: Hector Ceniceros (Caltech, Applied math)
A New Approach to Dynamically Adaptive Mesh Generation and
Potentially Singular Flows
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February 7:

February 14: Vakhtang Poutkaradze (U of New Mexico, Math)
Non-Uniform flow from a point source
ABSTRACT

February 21: No seminar. Presidents Day

February 28: Misha Chertkov (Los Alamos)
Turbulent advection: from passive scalar to active vector
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March 6: David Amundsen (Caltech, Applied math)
Resonances in Dispersive Wave Systems
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March 13: No seminar. Semester Break

March 20: Dani Or (Soil Physics, USU)
Dripping from Unsaturated Fractures Into Subterranean Cavities
ABSTRACT

March 27: Valy Vardeny (U of U, Physics)
Optical Studies of Photonic Crystals
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April 3: Sergey Serkov (U of U, Math)
Asymptotic optimization and bounds on effective fields
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April 10: Fernardo Reitich (U of Minnesota, Math)
Domain Variations and Analytic Continuation
in Boundary-Value and Free-Boundary Problems
ABSTRACT

April 11: Blaise Bourdin (Caltech)
Regularization of Some Topology Optimization Problems by Mean of Gamma Convergence
ABSTRACT
Note the day change - TUESDAY

April 17: Alexei Efros (U of U, Physics)
Crossover from percolation to diffusion
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April 24: James Gleeson (Arizona State U, Math)
Turbulent Diffusion
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Speakers are needed for 1999-2000!
Please contact Ken Golden (801-581-6176, golden@math.utah.edu)
or Sasha Balk (801-581-7512, balk@math.utah.edu).