Department of Mathematics, < Spring 1998 >  

• Monday, January 19, 1998, 4:00pm, Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear PDE Seminar
  John Trangenstein (Duke University), Some Thoughts On Numerical Modeling of Electrical Impulses in the Heart

• Tuesday, January 20, 1998, 2:15pm, Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems
  Andrea Bertozzi (Duke University), Dynamics and Stability of Self-Similar Pinch-off via Surface Diffusion

• Friday, January 23, 1998, 4:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Thomas WItelski (MIT Department of Mathematics), Dynamics of air bearing sliders in computer hard drives   [abstract]

• Monday, January 26, 1998, 2:15pm, Special Colloquium
  Shankar Venkataramani (University of Chicago), Chemotaxis: Attraction, Diffusion and Collapse   [abstract]

• Wednesday, January 28, 1998, 2:15pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Ovidiu Costin (MSRI and the University of Chicago), Rigorous exponential asymptotics and applications to differential systems   [abstract]

• Monday, February 2, 1998, 4:00pm, Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear PDE Seminar
  Lou Kondic (Duke University), Pattern Formation in Non-Newtonian Hele-Shaw Flow   [abstract]

• Tuesday, February 3, 1998, 2:15pm, Applied Math And CNCS Seminar
  Lou Kondic (Dept of Math, Duke University), Single Bubble Sonoluminescence: Why is it still interesting?   [abstract]

• Wednesday, February 4, 1998, 4:00pm, Geometry Seminar
  Bill Pardon (Duke University), Pure Hodge Structure on the L_2 Cohomology of Varieties in the Fubini-Study Metric

• Friday, February 6, 1998, 4:00pm, Graduate General Seminar
  Edward Welsh (Duke University Department of Mathematics), Alternating Knots: Don't Get Your Knickers in a Twist

• Monday, February 9, 1998, 4:00pm, Applied Mathematics Seminar
  Javier Diez (Instituto de Fisica Arroyo Seco, Universidad Nacional del Centro, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Noncircular converging viscous gravity currents

• Wednesday, February 11, 1998, 3:45am, Geometry Seminar
  Professor Frank Morgan (Williams College and Princeton University), New classical isoperimetric inequalities   [abstract]

• Friday, February 13, 1998, 4:00pm, Graduate General Seminar
  Liya Zhornitskaya (Duke University Department of Mathematics), A Positivity Preserving Numerical Scheme for Lubrication Type Equations

• Monday, February 16, 1998, 4:00pm, Applied Mathematics Seminar
  Thomas Kriecherbauer (University of Munich and Courant Institute), Universality in Random Matrix Theory via Integrable Methods

• Tuesday, February 17, 1998, 4:00pm, Geometry Seminar
  Kevin Knudson (Northwestern University), Singular Homology of Algebraic Varieties (d'apres Suslin-Voevodsky)

• Wednesday, February 18, 1998, 4:00pm, Geometry Seminar
  Kevin Knudson (Northwestern University), Unstable Homotopy Invariance and the Friedlander- Milnor Conjecture

• Friday, February 20, 1998, 4:00pm, Graduate General Seminar
  David Ambrose and Chris Hale (Duke University Department of Mathematics), Bifurcations of the Logistic Map

• Sunday, February 22, 1998, 4:00pm, Applied Math Seminar
  Mary Pugh (Univ. of Pennsylvania), TBA

• Monday, February 23, 1998, 4:00pm, Applied Mathematics Seminar
  Susanne C. Brenner (University of South Carolina), Multigrid Methods for Stress Intensity Factors and Singular Solutions

• Friday, February 27, 1998, 4:00pm, Graduate General Seminar
  Greg Lawler (Duke University Department of Mathematics), What Does the Path of a Brownian Motion Look Like?

• Sunday, March 1, 1998, 4:00pm, Applied Math Seminar
  Jerry Bona (Univ of Texas at Austin), TBA   [abstract]

• Monday, March 2, 1998, 4:00pm, Applied Mathematics Seminar
  Sharon Lubkin (North Carolina State University, Biomathematics Program), Chemotactic Bacterial Pattern Formation   [abstract]

• Friday, March 6, 1998, 4:00pm, Graduate General Seminar
  Aaron Ashih (Duke University Department of Mathematics), The Dynamics of a (yet to be disclosed) Population Model

• Monday, March 9, 1998, 4:00pm, Applied Mathematics Seminar
  J. Thomas Beale (Duke University), Boundary Integral Methods for Water Waves

• Monday, March 23, 1998, 4:00pm, Applied Math And Analysis Seminar
  Fei Ran Tian (The Ohio State Univ., Dept of Mathematics), Some Thoughts on the Semi-Classical Limit of the Focusing NLS   [abstract]

• Tuesday, March 24, 1998, 4:00pm, Geometry Seminar -- CANCELLED!
  Dino Lorenzini (University of Georgia), Morphisms of Curves and Semistability

• Friday, March 27, 1998, 4:00pm, Graduate General Seminar
  Ben McKay (Duke University Department of Mathematics), Geometry of Differential Equations

• Monday, March 30, 1998, 4:00pm, Applied Mathematics Seminar
  Dan Anderson (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), A Phase-Field Model of Solidification: Coupling Hydrodynamics

• Tuesday, March 31, 1998, 2:15pm, Joint CNCS/Applied Math Seminar
  Simon Tavener (Pennsylvania State University, Dept of Math), Convective Effects on a Propagating Reaction Front   [abstract]

• Tuesday, March 31, 1998, 4:00pm, Geometry Seminar
  Robert Bryant (Duke University), The Geometry of Rigid Curves in Control Theory

• Wednesday, April 1, 1998, 4:00pm, Geometry Seminar
  Ezra Getzler (Northwestern University), Intersection Rings of Deligne-Mumford Moduli Spaces in Genus 1 and 2

• Friday, April 3, 1998, 4:00pm, Graduate General Seminar
  Lang Moore and Stephanie Fitchett (Duke University Department of Mathematics), Web-Based Technology in the Classroom

• Monday, April 6, 1998, 4:00pm, Applied Mathematics Seminar
  Hung Van Ly (North Carolina State University, Center for Research in Scientific Computation), Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for Flow Calculations and Optimal Control in a Horizontal Chemical Vapor Deposition Reactor   [abstract]

• Tuesday, April 7, 1998, 4:00pm, Geometry Seminar
  Robert Bryant (Duke University), The Geometry of Rigid Curves in Control Theory

• Friday, April 10, 1998, 4:00pm, Graduate General Seminar
  Mette Olufsen (Roskilde University Department of Mathematics), A Structured Tree Outflow Condition for a 1D Fluid Dynamic Model of the Systemic Arteries

• Monday, April 13, 1998, 4:00pm, Applied Mathematics Seminar
  Mark Lewis (University of Utah, Dept of Math), On the Asymptotic Speed of a Stochastic Invasion   [abstract]

• Tuesday, April 14, 1998, 4:00pm, Geometry Seminar
  Carel Faber (Oklahoma State), Integrals on the Moduli Space of Stable Curves

• Wednesday, April 15, 1998, 4:00pm, Geometry Seminar
  Laila Maino (Harvard University), Enriched Stable Curves

• Friday, April 17, 1998, 4:00pm, Graduate General Seminar
  Tom Beale (Duke University Department of Mathematics), From Computing Singular Integrals to Number Theory

• Monday, April 20, 1998, 4:00pm, Applied Mathematics Seminar
  Christina Marliani (Courant Institute of Math. Sci., NYU), Adaptive Mesh Computations for Fluid and Plasma Flows   [abstract]

• Friday, April 24, 1998, 4:00pm, Graduate General Seminar
  John Trangenstein (Duke University Department of Mathematics), Adaptive Mesh Refinement

• Monday, April 27, 1998, 2:30pm, String Theory Seminar
  Juan Maldacena (Harvard University), The Large N Limit of Field Theories and Gravity

• Monday, April 27, 1998, 4:00pm, Applied Mathematics Seminar
  Brian Hayes (Duke University, Dept of Math), Stress-Controlled and Velocity-Controlled Shear Waves in a Saturated Granular Medium   [abstract]

• Tuesday, April 28, 1998, 2:15pm, Probability Seminar
  David Wilson (Institute for Advanced Study), Random Spanning Trees, Random Walks, Dimer Systems, and Their Scaling Limits

• Tuesday, April 28, 1998, 3:30pm, Geometry Seminar
  David Schaeffer (Duke University), Geodesics in Finsler Geometry and the Bidomain Model for Excitation Waves in the Heart

• Wednesday, April 29, 1998, 4:00pm, Geometry Seminar
  Burt Totaro (University of Chicago), Chern Numbers for Singular Varieties and Elliptic Cohomology   [abstract]

• Friday, May 1, 1998, 4:00pm, Graduate General Seminar
  Andreas Muench (Duke University Department of Mathematics and Technical University of Munich), Why Does Spreading Paint Form Fingers?" May 1 and May 2, 1998