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SPRING 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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Tuesday, January 16, 2001 Dimitri D. Vaynblat      Applied Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Shock-Induced Martensitic Phase Transitions in Solids

Friday, January 19, 2001 Mette Olufsen      Department of Mathematics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts New Roles for the Gamma Rhythm: Population Tuning and Preprocessing for the Beta Rhythm

Tuesday, January 23, 2001 Chris Wiggins      Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York Biomathematical Modeling of Polymer Dynamics

Friday, January 26, 2001 Zhong-Hui Duan      Department of Mathematics, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Adaptive Treecodes for Computing Nonbonded Interactions in Molecular Simulations

Wednesday, January 31, 2001 Guillaume Bal      Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Particle Transport Through Scattering Regions with Non-scattering Clear Layers and Inclusions

Friday, February 2, 2001 Michael Weinstein      Fundamental Mathematics Research Department, Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies Nonlinear Propagation of Light in Periodic Structures

Wednesday, February 7, 2001 Jacob Rubinstein      Department of Mathematics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Phase Transitions in Mesoscopic Superconductors

Friday, February 9, 2001 Javier A. Diez      Instituto de Fisica Arroyo Seco Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires,      Tandil, Argentina The Crumbling of a Viscous Prism With an Inclined Free Surface

Wednesday, February 14, 2001 Florian A. Potra      Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD Computer Simulation of Multi-body Systems with Contacts and Friction

Friday, February 16, 2001 Leonid A. Kunyansky      Applied & Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Fast, High-Order Solution of Surface Scattering Problems

Wednesday, February 21, 2001 Gino Biondini      Department of Applied Mathematics and Engineering Sciences, Northwestern University,      Evanston, IL Nonlinear Waves, Solitons and Optical Fiber Communications

Friday, February 23, 2001 Richard Kleeman      Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Measure of Predictability in Dynamical Systems with Applications to Geophysical Phenomenon

Wednesday, February 28, 2001 Chjan C. Lim      Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY A Microscopic Derivation of the Energy Density Spectra for 2d Turbulence and Exact Solutions of Kraichnan's Energy-Enstrophy Theory - Applications to Venus' Super-Rotation

Friday, March 2, 2001 Steve Childress      Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Stalking the Wild Antarctic Pteropod: A Preliminary Report of Observations of Bimodal Swimming at Intermediate Reynolds Numbers

Wednesday, March 7, 2001 Tak Shing Lo      Courant institue of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY Phase Field Modeling of Microstructural Pattern Formation in Peritectic Alloys

Friday, March 9, 2001 Xu-Dong Liu      Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara Positive Schemes for Multi-Dimensional System of Convention Laws

Friday, March 23, 2001 Louis Fishman      Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS and Department of Physics      University of New Orleans, LA Phase Space and Path Integral Methods in Multidimensional Wave Propagation

Monday, March 26, 2001 Snezhana Abarzhi      Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics      State University of New York at Stony Brook Nonlinear Evolution of Unstable Fluid Interface

Friday, March 30, 2001 David J. Horntrop      Department of Mathematics & Statistics      University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Mesoscopic Simulation for Pattern Formation

Friday, April 6, 2001 Daniel D. Szyld      Department of Mathematics, Temple University Philadelphia, PA Algebraic Theory of Schwarz Methods for Domain Decomposition

Friday, April 20, 2001 Arthur Sherman      National Institute of Health The Phantom Burster Model for Pancreatic Beta-Cells

	Friday, April 27, 2001 Stephanos Venakides      Department of Mathematics, Duke University, Durham, NC BEM Calculation of Scattering by Photonic Crystal Structures With and Without Defects
	Wednesday, January 31, 2001 Susan Hodge      Department of Psychiatry and Biostatistics      Columbia University Stoppage: A Potential Problem for Genetic Analysis of Severe, Early-Onset Diseases
	Thursday, March 1, 2001 Daniel F. Heitjan      Mailman School of Public Health      Columbia University Assessing Sensitivity to Nonignorability
	Wednesday, April 18, 2001 Scott Vander Wiel      Statistics Research, Bell labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ Thinking Statistically About Optimization - A Bayesian Quasi-Newton Method
	Wednesday, April 25, 2001 Georg Ch. Pflug      University of Vienna, Austria Shape Restricted, Nonparametric Regression

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