Sept 1 - 5

Sept 8 - 12

Sept 15-19

Sept 22 - 26

Sept 29 - Oct 3

Oct 6 - 10

Oct 13 - 17

Oct 20 - 24

Oct 27 - 31

Nov 3 - 7

Nov 10 - 14

Nov 17 - 21

Nov 24 - 28

Dec 1 -5

WEEK OF AUGUST 25 - 29, 2003

August 25, 2003

PROBABILITY
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Josselin Garnier, Laboratoire de Statistique et Probabilités (LSP), Université Paul Sabatier
"Robustness of time-reversal for waves in time-dependent random media"

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 1 - 5, 2003

None

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 8 - 12, 2003

Tuesday, September 9

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Tim Kelley, North Carolina State University
"Pseudo-transient continuation for non-smooth nonlinear equations"

Wednesday, September 10

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Helge Kristian Jenssen, North Carolina State University
"Blowup of solutions for hyperbolic conservation laws"

Thursday, September 11

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

BRIDGES COLLOQUIUM
4:00 p.m. in HA 201
Tom Lada, North Carolina State University
"Homotopy theory: From topology to algebra"

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 15 - 19, 2003

Monday, September 15

PROBABILITY AND RANDOM SYSTEMS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Amarjit Budhiraja,  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"An ergodic control problem for constrained diffusions"

Tuesday, September 16

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Wei Cai, UNC Charlotte
"Discontinuous Galerkin methods for dispersive Maxwell's equations"

Wednesday, September 17

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Bojko Bakalov, North Carolina State University
"Field algebras"

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Gregory Lyng , University of Michigan
"Another look at Majda's model for reacting flow"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
3:40 p.m. In HA 320
Xiaohai Wan, North Carolina State University
Title TBA

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 22 - 26, 2003

Tuesday, September 23

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Thomas Witelsky , Duke University
"Computing finite-time singularities in interfacial flows"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Wednesday, September 24

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Steve Schecter, North Carolina State University
"Dafermos profiles for singular shocks"

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
3:40 p.m. In HA 320
Miao Yu, North Carolina State University
Title TBA

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 3, 2003

Tuesday, September 30

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Guergana Petrova, Texas A&M University
"Central-upwind schemes and applications"

Wednesday, October 1

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Dmitry Zenkov, North Carolina State University
"Constrained dynamics, conservation laws, and control"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

WEEK OF OCTOBER 6 - 10, 2003

Tuesday, October 7

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Alexander Povitsky, University of Akron
"Fluid dynamics issues in synthesis of carbon nanotubes"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 147
Samer Al-Ashhab, North Carolina State University
"Symmetry reduction and sh-Lie structures"

SAMSI DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
4:30 p.m. in MCNC-RDI Auditorium
Margaret Wright, New York University
"Direct search models:  The sound and the fuss"

WEEK OF OCTOBER 13 - 17, 2003

Tuesday, October 14

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in Riddick 11
Jean-Pierre Fouque, North Carolina State University
"On Monte Carlo simulations in quantitative finance"

Wednesday, October 15

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. In HA 335
Agnes Szanto, North Carolina State University
"Subresultants and the solution of over-constrained multivariate polynomial systems"

Thursday, October 16

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Joerg Gablonsky, Boeing
"Effective parallel optimization of expensive functions"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

WEEK OF OCTOBER 20 - 24, 2003

Monday, October 20

PROBABILITY AND RANDOM SYSTEMS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Demetrio Labate, North Carolina State University
"On Monte Carlo simulations in quantitative finance"

Wednesday, October 22

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. In HA 335
Tom Lada, North Carolina State University
"Symmetric brace algebras"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

WEEK OF OCTOBER 27 - 31, 2003

Monday, October 27

PROBABILITY AND RANDOM SYSTEMS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Murad Taqqu, Boston University
"The Weierstrass function and fractional Brownian motion"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
4:00 p.m. in HA 330
Kevin Zumbrun , Indiana University
"Kreiss symmetrizers with crossing characteristics, and stability of MHD shocks"

Wednesday, October 29

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Amassa Fauntleroy, North Carolina State University
"Automorphisms of Certain Projective Bundles on Toric Varieties"

Thursday, October 30

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

COLLOQUIUM
4 p.m. in HA 201
Henk van der Vorst,  University of Utrecht
"Iterative solution methods: Aims, tools, craftsmanship"

Friday, October 31

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
1:30-3:00 p.m. in Nelson 1206
Jim Felling, Decision One Mortgage, Charlotte
"Workshop on issues in mortgage and consumer finance"

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 3 - 7, 2003

Monday, November 3

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Tuesday, November 4

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Long Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Immersed interface methods for fluid dynamics problems"

SAMSI DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
4:30 p.m. in MCNC-RDI Auditorium
Jerome Friedman, Stanford University
"Importance Sampling:  An Alternative View of Ensemble Learning"

Wednesday, November 5

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Marta Lewicka, University of Chicago
"Stability of the large data Riemann problem in one space dimension"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
3:40 p.m. in HA 335
Zhi Wang, North Carolina State University
Title TBA

COLLOQUIUM
4:00 p.m. in HA 201
David Eisenbud, University of California at Berkeley
"Resultants and Elimination Theory, Old and New"

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 10 - 14, 2003

Monday, November 10

MATHEMATICS GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION SEMINAR
12:00 p.m. in HA 335
"Introduction to faculty research areas"
12:00 Refreshments, 12:15 Tim Kelley, 12:40 Moody Chu

Tuesday, November 11

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
David Adalsteinsson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Scalars on surfaces: A level set approach"

GRADUATE STUDENT ALGEBRA SEMINAR
Jeremiah Kermes, North Carolina State University
2:35 p.m. in HA 263
"Approaches to (co)homology I: Geometric approaches"

Wednesday, November 12

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Loek Helminck, North Carolina State University
Title TBA

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Yuri Fedorov, Moscow Lomonosov University and Universitat Politecnica de
Catalunya "Nonholonomic LR systems as generalized Chaplygin systems with an
invariant measure"  

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
3:40 p.m. in HA 335
Haojun Ouyang, North Carolina State University
Title TBA

Thursday, November 13

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

COLLOQUIUM
4 p.m. in HA 201
Mark Levi, Pennsylvania State University
"Stability webs in Hill's equations"

Friday, November 14

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
1:30-3:00 p.m. in Nelson 1206
Paul Fackler, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University
"Dynamic optimal switching models"

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 17 - 21, 2003

Monday, November 17

MATHEMATICS GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION SEMINAR
12:00 p.m. in HA 335
"Introduction to faculty research areas"
12:00 Lunch, 12:15 Agnes Szanto, 12:40 Kristian Jenssen

Tuesday, November 18

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Hongkai Zhao, University of California at Irvine
"Fast sweeping method for eikonal equation"

GRADUATE STUDENT ALGEBRA SEMINAR
Jeremiah Kermes, North Carolina State University
2:35 p.m. in HA 263
"Approaches to (co)homology II: Algebraic approaches"

Wednesday, November 19

2:35 - 3:25 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS HA 335

2:35     Mark Lavin
"Life after AKS: An Examination of the Newest Generation of Primality Algorithms"
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Erich Kaltofen (Mathematics)
    
3:00     Mariya Bessonov
"Shape Optimization of Microfabricated Polyimide Mounts for Cryocrystallography with the Finite Element Method"
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Robert Thorne (Physics)

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
3:40 p.m. in HA 335
Andrew Fernandes , North Carolina State University
Title TBA

Thursday, November 20

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Dan Marchesin , Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (Rio deJaneiro)
"Modeling permeability hysteresis in two-phase flow via relaxation"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

MATHEMATICAL BRIDGES COLLOQUIUM
4:00 p.m. in HA 201
Kazufumi Ito, North Carolina State University
"Semismooth Newton and level set methods for nonsmooth variational problems"

Friday, November 21

PROBABILITY AND RANDOM SYSTEMS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in Room TBA
Ilie Grigorescu, University of Miami
Title TBA

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 24 - 28, 2003

Monday, November 24

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Zhujun Jing, Academia Sinica (Beijing)
"Geometric singular perturbation methods and their application"

WEEK OF DECEMBER 1 - 5, 2003

Monday, December 1

PROBABILITY AND RANDOM SYSTEMS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Jonathan Mattingly, Duke University
"Stochastically forced Navier-Stokes equation: Ergodicity, mixing and Malliavin calculus"

Tuesday, December 2

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 330
Xiaofan Li, Illinois Institute of Technology
"A boundary integral method in 3D elastic media"

DEPARTMENTAL TEA
3:30 p.m. in HA 243

Wednesday, December 3

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35 p.m. in HA 335
Michael Singer, North Carolina State University
"Inverse problems in Galois theory"
          
BIOMATHEMATICS SEMINAR
3:40 p.m. in HA 335
Xiaohai Wan, North Carolina State University
"Force and deformation on branching rudiments: Cleaving between
hypotheses" (paper of S. R. Lubkin and Z. Li)

Thursday, December 4

GRADUATE STUDENT ALGEBRA SEMINAR
2:35-3:25 in HA 272 (as opposed to the usual time and place).  
Chirag Lakhani
"Varieties and Schemes"