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, David
            Eyre, 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 - Fall 2000
            
              February 12:
            
            
            
              Roderic Lakes (University of Wisconsin/Madison)
            
            
            
            
              Deformation of extreme composites
            
            
            
              
                ABSTRACT
              
            
          
            
              February 19:  no seminar
            
            
            
            
            
          
            
              February 26:
            
            
            
              Andrej Cherkaev (U of U, Math)
            
            
            
            
              Bounds for properties of thermo-elastic composites
            
            
            
              
                ABSTRACT
              
            
          
            
              March 5:
            
            
            
              Alexander Balk (U of U, Math)
            
            
            
            
              Anomalous Behavior of a Passive Tracer in Wave Turbulence
            
            
            
              
                ABSTRACT
              
            
          
            
              March 12:  no seminar
            
            
            
            
            
          
            
              March 19:
            
            
            
              Alain Karma (Northeastern University, Physics)
            
            
            
            
              Dynamics of "Discordant Alternans" in Cardiac
              Tissue
            
            
            
              
                ABSTRACT
              
            
          
            
              March 26:
            
            
            
              Pierre Suquet (CNRS)
            
            
            
            
              A numerical method for nonlinear composites with complex
              microstructure
            
            
            
              
                ABSTRACT
              
            
            
             Note the time change 4:00pm-5:00pm
          
            
              April 2:
            
            
            
              Toshio Yoshikawa(U of U, Math)
            
            
            
            
              Dynamics of a mass-spring system with a non-monotone
              stress-strain relation
            
            
            
              
                ABSTRACT
              
            
          
            
              April 6:
            
            
            
              Susan Friedlander(U of Illinois-Chicago)
            
            
            
            
              The Ubiquity of Fluid Instability
            
            
            
              
                ABSTRACT
              
            
            
             Note the day change - FRIDAY
          
            
              April 9:
            
            
            
              Deborah Sulsky (University of New Mexico)
            
            
            
            
              Membrane Simulations
            
            
            
              
                ABSTRACT
              
            
          
            
              April 16:
            
            
            
              Liya Zhornitskaya(U of U, Math)
            
            
            
            
              Positivity Preserving Numerical Schemes for Lubrication
              Type Equations
            
            
            
              
                ABSTRACT
              
            
          
            
              April 20:
            
            
            
              Vassili V. Toropov (Bradford, UK)
            
            
            
            
              Use of Approximation Techniques and Genetic Programming
              for Optimization and Inverse Problems
            
            
            
              
                ABSTRACT
              
            
            
             Note the day change - FRIDAY
          
            
              April 23:
            
            
            
              John Cahn (NIST)
            
            
            
            
              TBA
            
            
          
            
              April 30:
            
            
            
              Sergey Serkov(U of U, Math)
            
            
            
            
              Imperfect interfaces, inhomogeneities, and neutral
              inclusions
            
            
            
              
                ABSTRACT
              
            
          
            
              Speakers are needed for 2000-2001!
            
            
            
            
            
              Please contact Andrej Cherkaev (801-581-6822,
              cherk@math.utah.edu)
            
            
            
            
            
              or Sergey Serkov (801-581-6638, serkov@math.utah.edu).