Differential Equations Seminar
Department of Mathematics
North Carolina State University

Wednesday, January 18

• Dejan Slepcev, University of California at Los Angeles
• "Coarsening in thin liquid films"
• Dr. Slepcev is a candidate for a faculty position in partial differential equations.

Friday, January 20

• Joint Numerical Analysis / Differential Equations Seminar
• Melvin Leok, University of Michigan
• "Computational geometric mechanics and its applications to geometric optimal control theory"
• Please note the unusual day. The talk is in Harrelson 330 at 3 p.m. as usual.
• Dr. Leok is a candidate for a faculty position.

Tuesday, January 24

• Zhiwu Lin, New York University
• "Stability of collisionless plasmas"
• Please note the unusual day. The talk is in Harrelson 330 at 3 p.m. as usual.
• Dr. Lin is a candidate for a faculty position in partial differential equations.

Wednesday, January 25

• Horacio Rotstein, Boston University
• "The dynamic structure underlying subthreshold oscillatory activity and the onset of spikes in a model of medial entorhinal cortex stellate cells"
• Dr. Rotstein is a candidate for a faculty position.

Friday, January 27

• Jesenko Vukadinovic, University of Chicago
• "A Smoluchowski equation arising in the Doi-Hess model of nematic liquid crystalline polymers"
• Please note the unusual day. The talk is in Harrelson 330 at 3 p.m. as usual.
• Dr. Vukadinovic is a candidate for a faculty position in partial differential equations.

Wednesday, February 22

• Peter Gordon, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• "Propagation of fronts in porous media combustion"

Wednesday, March 1

• Yuri Latushkin, University of Missouri
• "Fredholm, Evans, Jost"

Wednesday, March 15

• Eugene Tsyganov, North Carolina State University
• "Uniqueness and continuous dependence on initial data in compressible magnetohydrodynamics"

Wednesday, March 22

• Richard Kollar, University of Michigan
• "Linear stability of stratified fluids and the associated nonlinear eigenvalue problem"

Wednesday, April 12

• Joint Differential Equations/Numerical Analysis Seminar
• Maria Lukacova, Hamburg University of Technology
• "Theory of bicharacteristics and genuinely multidimensional finite volume schemes for hyperbolic balance laws"

Friday, April 21

• Alexander Oron, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and Duke University
• "Pattern formation in the longwave Marangoni instability of a binary liquid with the Soret effect"
• Please note the unusual day. The talk is in Harrelson 330 at 3 p.m. as usual.

Wednesday, April 26

• Joint Differential Equations/Numerical Analysis Seminar
• Bo Li, University of California at San Diego
• "Surface diffusion vs. the Ehrlich-Schwoebel effect in thin-film growth"

Monday, May 1

• Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute
• "The one-dimensional forced NLS equation: towards classifying the structure of its chaotic solutions"
• The talk is in Harrelson 330 at 4:10 p.m. Please note the unusual day and time.

Wednesday, May 3

• Joint Differential Equations/Probability Seminar
• Hyung Ju Hwang, Trinity College (Ireland)
• "Hyperbolic models for chemosensitive movement in interacting cell systems"
• The talk is in Harrelson 330 at 1:30 p.m. Please note the unusual time.

• Spring 2005
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• Fall 2002

• Steve Schecter
  
• schecter@math.ncsu.edu

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