Department of Mathematical Sciences
and
Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics

SPRING 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, January 25, 2002

Tim Lewis

Center for Neural Science and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Title: Dynamics of Neurons Connected by Inhibitory Synapses and Electrical Coupling

Special Time and Place

1:15 pm, Wednesday, January 30, 2002
Conference Room 611 Cullimore Hall

Jorge Golowasch

Biological Science Department, Rutgers-Newark/NJIT

Title: Biological and Computational Approach to Study the Homeostasis of Neuronal Electrical Activity

Friday, February 1, 2002

V. V. Goldberg

Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Title: WEBS AND PDES

Friday, February 8, 2002

Cyrill Muratov

Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Title: Testing a Hypothesis in Developmental Biology: Modeling and Computational Analysis of Autocrine Loops in Drosophila Oogenesis

Friday, February 15, 2002

Christopher Elmer

Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Title: An Introduction to Discretized Reaction-Diffusion Equations: Traveling Wave Solutions, Applications, and Phenomena

Friday, February 22, 2002

Peter Petropoulos

Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Title: Absorbing Boundary Conditions for the Numerical Solution of the Time-Dependent Maxwell Equations

Friday, March 1, 2002

Jean Taylor

Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Title: Rotating Crystals

Friday, March 8, 2002

Ranganathan Narayanan

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida

Title: Morphological and other Interfacial Instabilities

Special Day, Time, and Place

2:30 PM, Thursday, March 14, 2002
Conference Room 611, Cullimore Hall

Christopher S. Raymond

Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: Mathematical Modeling for Immunocolloid Labeling

Friday, March 15, 2002

Philip Holmes

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University

Title: Low Dimensional Modela of Turbulent Plane Couette Flow

Co-sponsored by the Department of Mechanical Engineering

Special Time and Place

11:30 AM, Friday, March 22, 2002
Cullomore Hall, Conference Room 611

Cameron Connell

Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: Atomistic Theory of Elasticity for Epitaxial Growth

11:30 AM, Friday, April 5, 2002

Jonathan H. C. Luke

Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Title: Sedimentation and the Dynamics of Stratification and Fluctuation Decay

11:30 AM, Friday, April 12, 2002

Nadine Aubry

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Title: Numerical Simulations and Experiments of Electrorheological Suspensions

Joint NJIT/Rutgers Colloquium

2:30 am, Wednesday, April 17, 2002
Smith Hall 242, Rutgers University

Michael Shub

IBM

Title: Newton's Method on Manifolds and a Geometric Model of the Human Spine

11:30 AM, Friday, April 19, 2002

John W. M. Bush

Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: Pipes, Polygons, Chains and Fishbones: The form and physics of falling fluids

11:30 AM, Friday, April 26, 2002

Philip Broadbridge

Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware

Title: Applications of Integrable Nonlinear Diffusion Equations

Special Time and Place

11:30 am, Monday, April 29, 2002
MEC 224

Fazle Hussain

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston

Title: Coherent Structures in the near-wall region of turbulent boundary layers

Co-sponsored by the Department of Mechanical Engineering

11:30 AM, Friday, May 3, 2002

Triantaphyllos R. Akylas

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: Nonlinear Internal Gravity-Wave Beams

Special Time and Place

10:30 AM, Friday, June 7, 2002
CEE Conference Room

Anil C. Wijeyewickrema

Department of Civil Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Title: Dispersion of extensional waves in pre-stressed imperfectly bonded incompressible elastic layered composites



For more information about the Seminars contact:

Chris Elmer, (973) 596-5479

email: elmer@m.njit.edu