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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Spring 2005 Schedule

Tueday, January 18

• M Gregory Forest, UNC Chapel Hill
  
• Modeling and simulation of nematic polymer film flows and their effective material properties
• Please note the unusual day, time, and place. The seminar is in BR 1402 (Broughton Hall)
  at 4:00
  

Thursday, January 20

• Melvin Leok, University of Michigan
• Computational Geometric Mechanics and Generalized Galerkin Variational Integrators
• Please note the unusual day. The seminar is in HA 330 at 2:35 as usual.

Wednesday, January 26

• Stephen Schecter, NCSU
• Combustion fronts in porous media with two layers
  

Wednesday, February 2

• Yuri Bakhtin, Duke University
  
• Stationary solutions for the Navier-Stokes system with random forcing in 2D and 3D
  

Wednesday, February 9

Thursday, February 17

• Philip Rosenau, Tel Aviv University
  
• Why singularities are good for you, or: On genuinely nonlinear patterns in a dispersive medium.
  
• Please note the unusual day. The seminar is in HA 330 at 2:35 as usual.

Wednesday, February 23

• Moody Chu, NCSU
  
• Group Actions, Linear Transformations, and Flows:
  Dynamical Systems on Manifolds
  

Wednesday, March 2

• Rescheduled to March 16
  

Wednesday, March 9:       No seminar (Spring Break)

Wednesday, March 16

• Stanislav Molchanov, UNC Charlotte
• Slowing down of the light

Wednesday, March 23

• Jason Osborn, NCSU
  
• Steering the Chaplygin Sleigh with a Moving Mass: A Problem in the Non-Linear Control of Non-Holonomic Mechanical Systems
  

Wednesday, March 30

• Robin Young, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Isentropic Gas Dynamics with Large BV data
  

• Ben Texier, Indiana University
  
• Higly nonlinear geometrical optics and laser-plasma interactions
  

• Mike Fiddy, UNC Charlotte
  
• Applications of analyticity in optical information processing
  

• Ronghua Pan,  Georgia Institute of Technology
• Uniform BV estimates for damped p-system
  

• Gregory Hicks,  Kirtland Air Force Research Lab
• An Overview of Some Concepts Essential to the Study of Mechanics and Control
• Please note the unusual day and place. The seminar is in HA335
  

• Michael Sever, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  
• Incoming and outgoing waves
  

• Fall 2004 schedule
  
• 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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