Applied Math Seminar
Winter Quarter 2007
Friday, 3:15 - 4:15 p.m.
Sloan Mathematics Corner, Building 380, Room 380-C
Organized by Laurent Demanet

 

January 12

 

Roman Vershynin
Mathematics
UC Davis

 

Condition numbers of random matrices

January 19

 

Jim Nolen
Mathematics
Stanford University

 

Reaction-diffusion fronts in a random flow

January 24,
4:00 - 5:00 PM,
380-381U

 

Thomas Hou
ACM, Caltech
Special Appl. Math seminar

 

Multiscale Analysis and Computation for the 3D Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations

January 26

 

Gadi Fibich
Applied Mathematics
Tel-Aviv University

 

New singular solutions of the Nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS)

February 2

 

William Symes
Comp. and Appl. Math.
Rice University

 

How to solve a simple inverse problem in seismology

February 9

 

Henri Berestycki
Analyse et math. sociales
EHESS, France

 

Generalized fronts passing an obstacle

February 16

 

Facundo Memoli
Mathematics
Stanford U.

 

Some ideas for the Comparison of Shapes given as Point Cloud Data

February 23

 

Boris Rozovsky
Mathematics
Brown U.

 

Stochastic Navier-Stokes Equations: Propagation of Chaos and Closure Problem

March 2

 

Jean-Claude Nedelec
CMAP
E. Polytechnique

 

The Helmholtz equation in a half-space with a mixed boundary condition

March 9

 

Philippe LeFloch
Paris VI and
CNRS

 

An introduction to kinetic relations for undercompressive shocks

March 16

 

Charles Chui
Dept of Statistics
Stanford

 

From Interpolating Subdivisions to Representation of Scattered Data

March 23

 

Chris Jones
Applied Mathematics
UNC Chapel Hill

 

Assimilating Trajectory Data into Ocean Models

 

Review of Past Seminar Schedules

 

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