Applied Mathematics Colloquia Series
Archive

Spring 2003

January

01/31
Daniel L. Stein
Department of Physics
University of Arizona

Spin Glasses: Old Questions and New Results or, How

February

02/07
Charles R. Steele
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University

Efficient Computation for the Analysis of Hearing

02/14
Mikael Chertkov
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Long Tail Error Probability

Arizona/Los Alamos Days

Keynote Speaker (as Applied Math Colloquium)

02/21
Jared C. Bronski
Department of Mathematics
University of Illiniois, Urbana-Champaign

Passive Scalar Intermittency and Eigenvalue Asymptotics

02/28
Kryzysztof Gawedzski
Ecole Normale Supericure de Lyon

Simple Models of Turbulent Transport

March

03/07
Natalia Komarova
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton University

Evolution and Learning of Language

03/28
Walter A. Strauss
Department of Mathematics
Brown University

Periodic Water Waves

April

04/04
Nikolai Chernov
Department of Mathematics
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Dynamics of a Massive Piston in an Ideal Gas: Theory, Experiments, and Open Problems

04/11
Alex Groisman
Department of Physics
University of California, San Diego

Non-Linear Flows of Polymer Liquids: From Elastic Turbulence to Microfluidic Logic

04/18
Thomas P. Witelski
Department of Mathematics
Duke University

Dynamics for a Critical-Case Unstable Generalized Thin Film Equation