Department of  Mathematical  Sciences 
and
Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics

FALL 2001 APPLIED MATH COLLOQUIUM SERIES

Seminars are held on Fridays at 11:30 a.m. in Lecture Hall II Cullimore unless noted otherwise

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Friday, September 7, 2001
     
     Roman Samulak
       Center for Data Intensive Computing,
       Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York
     
     Computational hydro- and magnetohydrodynamics of 3D free surface flows of real materials



Friday, September 14, 2001
     
     Robert V. Kohn
       Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
       New York University, New York, New York
     
     A new approach to the continuum modeling of epitaxial growth



Friday, September 21, 2001
     
     Serafim Kalliadasis
       Department of Chemical Engineering,
       University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
     
     Free-surface thin film flows over topography



Friday, September 28, 2001
     
     Richard J. Braun
       Department of Mathematical Sciences,
       University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
     
     A model for crystal growth on a masked substrate



Friday, October 5, 2001
     
     Victoria Booth
       Department of Mathematical Sciences,
       New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
     
      Neural mechanisms for generating rate and temporal codes in networks of hippocampal pyramidal cells



Friday, October 12, 2001
     
     Marianito R. Rodrigo
       Department of Mathematical Sciences,
       New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
     
     Front dynamics and exact solutions of reaction-diffusion systems



Friday, October 19, 2001
     Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck
       Department of Mathematical Sciences,
       New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
     
     Free surface flows with exponentially small waves



Friday, October 26, 2001
     
     Weinan E
       Mathematics Department,
       Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
           
     Numerical methods with multi-scale physics



Friday, November 2, 2001
     
     Roy Goodman
       Department of Mathematical Sciences,
       New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
           
      Trapping Light: Numerical Experiments and ODE Models



Friday, November 9, 2001
     
     James Keener
       Department of Mathematics,
       University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
     
      The Dynamics of Defibrillation of Cardiac Tissue



        Special Day and Time

Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 2:45 p.m.
     
     Joseph B. Keller
       Department of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering,
       Stanford University, Stanford, California
     
      Mathematics of Visual Perception: Color Vision



Friday, November 16, 2001
     
     Robert Lipton
       Department of Mathematics,
       Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
     
      Bounds for the Homogenized Failure Surface and the Design of Composite Structures for Strength and Stiffness



Friday, November 30, 2001
     
     L. Pamela Cook
       Department of Mathematical Sciences,
       University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
     
      Polymers: Properties and Characterization



Friday, December 7, 2001
     
     Paul A. Martin
       Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences,
       Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
     
      Fundamental solutions and functionally-graded materials





For more information about the Seminars contact:

Chris Elmer, (973) 596-5479

email: elmer@m.njit.edu