Differential Equations Seminar
Department of Mathematics
North Carolina State University

Seminars take place in 330 Harrelson Hall on Wednesdays at 2:35 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

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Fall 2004 Schedule

Tuesday, August 31

• Michael Sever, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• An Existence Theorem for Nonlinear Helmholtz Systems
• Please note the unusual day. The seminar is in HA 330 at 2:35 as usual.

Wednesday, September 8

• Kristian Jenssen, NCSU
• BV Instability of Numerical Schemes for Conservation Laws

Wednesday, September 15,

• Stephen Schecter, NCSU
  
• Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for the Dafermos regularization of a
  system of conservation laws

Wednesday, September 29,

• Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh
• Global solutions of some multi-dimensional problems for conservation laws
  

Tuesday, October 5,

• Alina Chertock, NCSU
• Effects of Saturating Diffusion on Strongly Degenerate Parabolic  Equations
• This is a joint Differential Equations/Numerical Analysis seminar.
• Please note the unusual day (Tuesday, October 5). The seminar is in HA 330 at 2:35.

Wednesday, October 13

• Jesus C. da Mota, Universidade Federal de Goias (Brazil) & NCSU
• Combustion Fronts in a Heterogenous Porous Media
  

Wednesday, October 20

• Gregory Lyng, University of Michigan
• The N-soliton of the Focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation for N large

• David Schaeffer, Duke University
• Mathematical models with memory for cardiac restitution,
  or how doing it right led to a better model
  

• David Hoff, Indiana University, Bloomington
  
• Intermediate Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations of
  Multidimensional, Compressible Flow
  

• Sandra Wieland, Duke University
  
• Surfactant Spreading on Thin Viscous Films:
  Nonnegative Solutions of a Coupled Degenerate System
  

• Chris Jones, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  
• Can Viscosity and Forcing in a Fluid Flow Result in Chaotic Advection?
  

• William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston
  
• A Degenerate Reaction Diffusion System Modeling the Atmospheric Dispersion of Pollutants
  

• Spring 2004 schedule
• Fall 2003 schedule
• Spring 2003 schedule
• Fall 2002 schedule

Seminar Organizers

• H.K. Jenssen
• hkjensse@math.ncsu.edu


• Dmitry Zenkov
• dvzenkov@math.ncsu.edu

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