Differential Equations Seminar
Department of Mathematics
North Carolina State University

Wednesday, January 28

• Colloquium in HA 201 at 4:00 p.m.
• Anthony Bloch, University of Michigan
• "Dynamics and control of oscillators and spins coupled to the environment"

Monday, February 2

• Michael Sever, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• "Initial-boundary value problems for nonhyperbolic first-order systems of balance laws"
• Please note the unusual day. The seminar is in HA 330 at 2:35 as usual.

Wednesday, February 11

• Stephanos Venakides, Duke University
• "The semiclassical focusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation"

Wednesday, February 18

• W. Garrett Mitchener, Duke University
• "A mathematical model of a change in the word order of Middle English"

Thursday, February 26

• Joint Numerical Analysis/Differential Equations Seminar
• N. Harris McClamroch, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
• "Variational integrators: A review, some new results, and applications to the simulation of a dumbbell body in space"
• Please note the unusual day. The seminar is in HA 330 at 2:35 as usual.

Wednesday, March 3

• Mark Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• "Stability of multidimensional viscous shocks"

Wednesday, March 17

• Ruhai Zhou, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• "The phase diagram for nematic polymers"

Wednesday, March 24

• Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland
• "Continuous Glimm-type functionals in hyperbolic systems of conservation laws"

Wednesday, March 31

• Rudy Horne, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• "Optical pulse interactions: Four-wave mixing and randomness in return-to-zero systems"

Wednesday, April 7

• Dmitry Zenkov, NC State
• "Constrained dynamics and variational integrators on Lie groups"

Wednesday, April 14

• Michael Shearer, NC State
• "Wave structures in the flow of driven thin liquid films: Kinetics and nucleation in scalar conservation laws"

Wednesday, April 28

• Matt Matthews, Department of Mathematics, Duke University
• "A hyperbolic free boundary value problem arising from granular materials"

Monday, May 10

• John Bidwell, NC State
• "On the periodic nature of solutions to the reciprocal difference equation with maximum"

• Fall 2003
• Spring 2003
• Fall 2002

• Steve Schecter
  
• schecter@math.ncsu.edu

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