Differential Equations Seminar
Department of Mathematics
North Carolina State University

Friday, January 17

• Ronghua Pan, University of Michigan
• "Classical and relativistic compressible flows"
• The seminar is at 2:35 in HA 335. Dr. Pan is a candidate for a faculty position in partial differential equations.

Wednesday, January 22

• Michael Sever, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• "A nonlinear Helmholtz problem: a 'failure' of critical point theory"

Monday, January 27

• Xiaodong Yan, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
• "An upper bound on the rate of coarsening in epitaxial growth"
• The seminar is at 2:35 in HA 335. Dr. Yan is a candidate for a faculty position in partial differential equations.

• Special Seminar
• Jeff Moehlis, Princeton University
• "Response of neurons in the brain region locus coeruleus to stimuli"
• The seminar is at 4:00 in HA 335. Dr. Moehlis is a candidate for a faculty position.

Wednesday, January 29

• Special Seminar
• Irina Kogan, Yale University
• "Applications of Cartan's method of moving frames"
• The seminar is at 2:35 in HA 330. Dr. Kogan is a candidate for a faculty position.

Monday, February 3

• Helge Kristian Jenssen, Indiana University
• "Large solutions to systems of nonlinear equations"
• The seminar is at 2:35 in HA 330. Dr. Jenssen is a candidate for a faculty position in partial differential equations.

Wednesday, February 5

• Special Seminar
• Michael Sullivan, University of Michigan
• "Counting holomorphic curves: 'hard' results in symplectic geometry"
• The seminar is at 2:35 in HA 330. Dr. Sullivan is a candidate for a faculty position.

Monday, February 10

• Special Seminar
• Boualem Khouider, New York University
• "A rigorous perspective for large eddy simulations of turbulent premixed flames"
• The seminar is at 2:35 in HA 330. Dr. Khouider is a candidate for a faculty position.

Tuesday, February 25

• Suncica Canic, University of Houston
• "Self-similar solutions to 2-D Riemann problems'"
• The seminar is at 2:35 in HA 330. Prof. Canic is a candidate for a senior position in the Mathematics Department.

Wednesday, March 19

• Aziz Yakubu, Howard University
• "Unidirectional versus bidirectional dispersal in discrete-time metapopulation models"

Wednesday, March 26

• Colloquium at 4 p.m. in HA 201
• Jerrold Marsden, California Institute of Technology
• "Geometric mechanics, variational integrators, and asteroid pairs"

Wednesday, April 23

• Chad Topaz, Duke University
• "Dynamics of a two-dimensional continuum model for swarming"

• Fall 2002

• Steve Schecter
  
• schecter@math.ncsu.edu

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