Department of Mathematical Sciences
and
Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics

FALL 2002 APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM SERIES

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

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Friday, September 6, 2002

Patrick Hagan

Fixed Income Derivatives Research, Bear Stearns

Title: Managing Smile Risk

Friday, September 13, 2002

Peter Kramer

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Title: Homogenized Transport by a Spatiotemporal Mean Flow with Small-Scale Periodic Fluctuations

Friday, September 20, 2002

Michel Louge

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University

Title: On the Impact of Spheres

Special Day and Time
Wednesday, October 2, 2002, 2:30pm

Ratnasingham Shivaji

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mississippi State University

Title: Diffusive Logistic Equation with Constant Yield Harvesting

Joint Seminar with Mechanical Engineering
Friday, October 4, 2002

Paul H. Steen

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University

Title: Interface instability and capillary micro-switches

Friday, October 11, 2002

Patrick L. Mills

Chemical Science & Engineering Laboratory, Dupont Company

Title: Method-of-Lines Solution of a Multi-region Distributed Parameter Dynamic Model for a Fixed-Bed Reactor

Friday, October 18, 2002

Roderick Wong

Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong

Title: Formal versus Rigorous Asymptotics

Friday, October 25, 2002

Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Title: Conformational Dynamics in Complex Systems: Theory and Computational Aspects

Special Joint Seminar with Mechanical Engineering
Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 4:00-5:30 P.M.
224 Mechanical Engineering Center
Refreshments served at 3:30 P.M.

Robert A. Altenkirch

President and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Title: Creeping Flame Spread in Forced and Natural Flows and Microgravity

Joint Seminar with Biomedical Engineering
Friday, November 1, 2002

Charles Peskin

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Title: 3-D Generalization of the Hodgkin-Huxley Equations

Special Seminar
Thursday, November 7, 2002, 4:00-5:00pm
Cullimore Hall Room 611

Michael Ward

Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia

Title: The Stability and Dynamics of Localized Patterns for a Reaction-Diffusion System

Friday, November 8, 2002

Oleh Baran

Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario

Title: Bulk motion of granular matter in an agitated cylindrical bed

Special Joint Seminar with Mechanical Engineering
Wednesday, November 13, 2002, 4:00-5:30 P.M.
224 Mechanical Engineering Center
Refreshments served at 3:45 P.M.

C. K. Law

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

Title: Combustion of Multicomponent and High-Energy-Density Fuel Droplets

Friday, November 15, 2002

C. David Levermore

Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland

Title: Fluid Dynamical Limits for the Boltzmann Equation

Joint Seminar with Mechanical Engineering
Friday, November 22, 2002

Moshe Matalon

Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University

Title: Flame Propagation in Narrow and Wide Channels

Friday, December 6, 2002

Xiangsheng Xu

Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Mississippi State University

Title: Mathematical theories for electrical heating of conductors

Special Seminar
11:30am, Thursday, December 12, 2002, Cullimore Lecture Hall I

Peter Winkler

Bell Labs

Title: Games People Don't Play



For more information about the Seminars contact:

Dan Goldman, 973-596-5837

goldman@m.njit.edu