Applied Mathematics 8100

Seminars on Dynamical Systems, Spring 2001

Meets: Thursdays and 2PM in the Applied Math Conference Room ECOT 226

Date       Speaker Title
Jan 18 Organizational Meeting
Jan 25 Bob Easton Origins of the Conley Index
Feb 1 Jim Meiss Dynamical Chemistry, Transport, and Isolating Blocks
(an informal discussion)
Feb 8 Glen Stewart, LASP Instability Theory for Narrow, Self-Gravitating Rings
Feb 15 Informal Discussion Applied Mathematics Courses in Dynamics: Where should we go from here?
Feb 22 David Sterling Self-Synchronizing Chaos using time-averaged coupling
Mar 1 Keith Julien Codimension 2 steady-state interactions with O(2) symmetry.
Mar 8 Jim Howard Navigating near an Asteroid
Mar 15 Jim Meiss Lagrangian Singularities and Twistless Tori
Mar 22 Panos Panayotaros Amplitude equations for surface elastic waves
March 29 Spring Break
Apr 5 Vanessa Robins Quantifying the structure of point patterns: statistical geometry and alpha shapes
Apr 12 Bill Basener, Boston University Noncollision Singularities: Orbits of Planets that Move Infinitely Far Apart in Finite Time
Apr 19: Liz Bradley Controlling Chaos Special Room: ECCR 139
Apr 26 Ben Bergen Lyapunov Exponents without Rescaling and Reorthogonalization
May 3

Old Seminars



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