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Colloquia 1999-2000

• Peter Smereka, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, April 28 2000
  Title: Relaxation in Hamiltonian Systems
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• David Cai, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, April 21 2000
  Title: Dispersive Wave Turbulence and Energy Transfer Cycles
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• Barbara Keyfitz, John and Rebecca Moores University Scholar Department of Mathematics, University of Houston (currently visiting the Mathematics Department at Brown University), April 14 2000
  Title: Solving Hyperbolic Problems with Elliptic Methods
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• Frank Morgan, Mathematics Department, Williams College, March 24 2000
  Title: The Double Bubble Conjecture
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
  Student Talk: News on the Double Bubble Conjecture, including work by undergraduates
  Time and place: Afternoon, TBA
• Chun Liu, Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, March 17 2000
  Title: Liquid Crystals and some complex fluids
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• William Martin, University of Winnipeg/University of Waterloo, Canada, March 13 2000
  Title: From integration to synchronization: the combinatorics of RT codes and (T,M,S)-nets
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• Robert D. Carr, Sandia National Labs, February 21 2000
  Title: Integrality Gaps and Combinatorial Optimization
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 308; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• Alan Chi Hung Ling, University of Vermont, February 18 2000
  Title: Erasure codes and Steiner systems
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 309; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• Gilles Francfort, University of Paris-Nord, January 28 2000
  Title: 3d-2d asymptotics in a nonlinear variational setting: methods, results, and questions
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• Thomas Henderson, University of Utah, January 21 2000
  Title: Computing Issues in Large-Scale Simulation
  3:00 p.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 2:30 p.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
  POSTPONED until further notice.
• Tao Jiang, University of Illinois, Urbana, December 17 1999
  Title: Embedding trees in graphs with large girth
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• Louise M. Ryan, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
  and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, December 10 1999
  Title: A Meta-analysis of Case-Control and Cohort Studies with Interval Censored Exposure Data:
  Application to Chorionic Villus Sampling
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• Walter Craig, Department of Mathematics, Brown University, December 3 1999
  Traveling water waves
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• Markos Katsoulakis, University of Massachusetts, November 12 1999
  Title: A Multiscale Approach to Cluster Growth Problems
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• Hans Winold, LucasArts Entertainment Company, November 4 1999
  Title: Dancing on the unit hypersphere: Looking to Higher Dimensions for Elegant Solutions to Issues in Computer Games
  4:00 p.m., Kinnicutt Hall (Salisbury Labs, Room 115); refreshments following the talk.
• James P. Lewis, Henry Eyring Center for Theoretical Chemistry
  Center for the Simulation of Accidental Fires and Explosions (C-SAFE), November 3 1999
  Title: A Linear-Scaling and Massively Parallel Electronic-Structure Method
  10:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 9:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• Joseph V. Romanovsky, St. Petersburg University, St. Petersburg, Russia, November 1 1999
  Title: Enumeration of Suboptimal Solutions in Discrete Optimization Problems
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 203; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• Jan Kristensen, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK, October 29 1999
  Title: Mazur's Lemma for Quasiconvexity
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• Weifu Fang, West Virginia University, October 15 1999
  Title: An Electrochemistry Model with Nonlinear Diffusion: Steady-State Solutions
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• Peter Mueller,Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Duke University, October 8 1999
  Title: Dynamic Models for Space-Time Data
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.
• Adam Ding, Northeastern University, September 24 1999
  Title: Study of Association in Bivariate Current Status Data
  11:00 a.m., Stratton Hall, Room 202; refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in the department lounge, SH107.

Applied/Computational Mathematics Seminars

All Talks on Wednesdays at 2:00 in Stratton Hall 203

• Michael Tocci, Department of Mathematical Sciences, WPI, April 26 2000
  Title: Applied Math Issues in the Center for Simulation of Accidental Fires and Explosions
• Arshad Kudrolli, Department of Physics, Clark University, April 19 2000
  Title: Granular flows: Patterns and segregation
• Robert Lipton, Department of Mathematical Sciences, WPI, April 12 2000
  Title: An Isoperimetric Inequality for Gradients of Solutions of Elliptic Equations in Divergence Form
• Patrick Miller, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology, April 5 2000
  Title: Dynamical systems methods applied to transport in 2D velocity fields
• Germano Iannacchione, Department of Physics, WPI, March 29 2000
  Title: Review of Order-Disorder Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals
• Anette Hosoi, Department of Mathematics, MIT, March 22 2000
  Title: Wine tears and other evaporatively driven instabilities in thin films

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