Spring 2016

Colloquia are held on Fridays at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II, unless noted otherwise. Refreshments are served at 11:30 am. For questions about the seminar schedule, please contact Yassine Boubendir.

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Schedule

Date	Speaker and Title	Host
January 22	Johnny Guzmán, Brown University Finite Element Methods for High Contrast Interface Problems	Yassine Boubendir
January 29	Anthony Rosato, NJIT Investigation of Energetic Granular Flows via Simulations, Experiments and Theory	Denis Blackmore
February 5	Danielle Bassett, Brown University Network-Based Computational Tools for the Investigation of Meso-Scale Structure in Soft Materials	Lou Kondic
February 12	Lev Ostrovsky, NOAA Earth Science Laboratory Asymptotic Perturbation Theory for Solitons	Wooyoung Choi
February 19	Kyle Mandli, Columbia University Enabling Storm Surge Prediction for High-Resolution Forecasts and Climate Scenarios	Roy Goodman
February 26	David Shirokoff, NJIT Approximate Global Minimizers for Pairwise Interaction Problems	---
March 2	Richard M. McLaughlin, UNC Chapel Hill Tailoring the Tails in Taylor Dispersion	Wooyoung Choi
March 11	Ivan Christov, Purdue University Multiple-Scale Asymptotics of Plane Waves in Media with Variable Phase Speed	Denis Blackmore
April 1	Kevin Mitchell, University of California, Merced Dynamical Barriers to Front Propagation in Active Fluid Flows	Roy Goodman
April 8	Dmitry Golovaty, The University of Akron On the Landau-de Gennes Model for Nematic Liquid Crystalline Films	Cyrill Muratov
April 15	Nilima Nigam, Simon Fraser University High Accuracy Computation of Mixed Dirichlet-Neumann Eigenvalues	Yassine Boubendir
April 22	Alexander Idesman, Texas Tech University A New Accurate Numerical Approach to Structural Dynamics and Wave Propagation Problems	Yassine Boubendir
April 29	Michael Zabarankin, Stevens Institute of Technology Analytical Solution for Spheroidal Drop Under Axisymmetric Linearized Boundary Conditions	Yuan-Nan Young