Department of Mathematical Sciences
and
Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics

FALL 2003 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 5, 2003

Paul Barbone

Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Boston University

Title: WELL-POSEDNESS OF AN ELASTIC INVERSE PROBLEM ARISING IN MEDICAL IMAGING

Friday, September 12, 2003

Markos A. Katsoulakis

Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Title: Coarse-grained stochastic processes and Monte Carlo simulations in lattice systems

Friday, September 19, 2003

Laurent Simon

Department of Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Title: An Analytical Solution for Percutaneous Drug Absorption: Application and Removal of the Vehicle

Friday, September 26, 2003

Prosenjit Bagchi

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rutgers University

Title: Microscale direct simulation of particle-turbulence interaction

Joint Seminar with Mechanical Engineering
Friday, October 3, 2003

Alparslan Oztekin

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University

Title: Steady Axisymmetric Swirling Flows in Confined Geometries

Friday, October 10, 2003

Talid Sinno

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

Title: Towards a Quantitative Understanding of Solid State Aggregation: Atomistic simulations, mean-field theory, and continuum process models

Joint Seminar with Mechanical Engineering
Friday, October 17, 2003

Corey S. O'Hern

Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Physics, Yale University

Title: Effective Temperatures in a Driven, Athermal System Near Jamming

Special Joint Seminar with Mechanical Engineering
Wednesday, October 22, 2003, 4:00-5:30 P.M.
224 Mechanical Engineering Center
Refreshments served at 3:45 P.M.

Doyle D. Knight

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University

Title: Laser Energy Deposition for Flow Control in High Speed Flows

Friday, October 24, 2003

David Cai

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Title: Kinetic Theory of Neuronal Networks -- Mean-driven vs Fluctuation-driven Dynamics

Special Joint Seminar with Mechanical Engineering
Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 4:00-5:30 P.M.
224 Mechanical Engineering Center
Refreshments served at 3:45 P.M.

Andrea Prosperetti

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Title: Two Computational Methods for Multiphase Flows

Friday, October 31, 2003

Ilya Rybak

School of Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University

Title: Modeling the respiratory rhythm generation and neural control of breathing

Friday, November 7, 2003

Jonathan Rubin

Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh

Title: Bumps in the Road: Localized Activity in Neuroscience Models

Friday, November 14, 2003

Geoffrey McFadden

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Title: Phase-Field Model of Electrochemistry

Special Seminar
11:30 AM, Monday, November 17, 2003
Cullimore Hall Room 611

Sascha Hilgenfeldt

Faculty of Applied Physics, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Title: The Power of Bubbles: Cell Manipulation, Microfluidics, and More

Friday, November 21, 2003

Huaxiong Huang

Department of Mathematics, York University

Title: A Perturbation Model for the Growth of ZnS Crystals

Special Joint Seminar with Mechanical Engineering
Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 4:00-5:30 P.M.
224 Mechanical Engineering Center
Refreshments served at 3:45 P.M.

Thomas R. Blake

Dean of the Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Title: Low Reynolds Number Flow Around a Burning Particle

Friday, December 5, 2003

Joel Rogers

Department of Mathematics, Polytechnic University

Title: Some Strange Results in Free-Surface Hydrodynamics



For more information about the Seminars contact:

Dan Goldman, 973-596-5837

goldman@m.njit.edu