Applied Mathematics 8100

Seminars on Dynamical Systems, Spring 2002

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

Date       Speaker Title
Jan 17 Organizational Meeting
Jan 24 15 minute Student Talks:
Paul Mullowney,
Adriana Gomez,
Kristian Sandberg,

Chaotic Advection in 3D Fluids,
The Group of Polynomial Diffeomorphisms,
Variational Methods in Image Processing
Jan 31 15 minute Student Talks:
Mark Peterson,
Srinath Vadlamani,
Derin Wysham
A Psuedo-spectral Model for the Intermediate Quasi Geostrophic Potential Vorticity Equation,
The "VP Method": An Algorithmic Unification of Vlasov and Particle-in-Cell Methods,
1+sqrt(2) convergence
Feb 7 Ziad Musslimani Discrete Diffraction Managed Spatial Solitons
Feb 14 Jeanne Clelland, CU Math Dept Backlund transformations of hyperbolic Monge-Ampere equations
Feb 21 Mikhail Rabinovich, Inst. for Nonlinear Science UC San Diego Neural Synchronization in the Networks with Activity dependent Excitatory Synapses Note special room ECCR 151
Feb 28 Jeff Weiss, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Dynamical Systems and Geophysical Turbulence
Mar 7 Neil Burrell Layered Quasi-Geostrophic Vortex Models
Mar 14 Charles Che, Northwestern University Quasi-periodic Lagrangian systems on the annulus
Mar 21 John Rundle, CIRES & Physics, CU Boulder Scaling and Nucleation in Driven Meanfield Threshold Systems: The Physics Underlying Earthquake Dynamics
March 28 Spring Break
Apr 4 Matthew Tearle Optimal perturbations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
Apr 11 Edgar Knobloch, University of California at Berkeley Oscillatory binary fluid convection in finite containers
Apr 17 Sergei Silvestrov, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden Topological dynamical systems, operator algebras, and representations of commutation relations
NOTE: Special Date & Time: Wed 1-2PM, usual place
Apr 18: Paul Mullowney Fluid Mixing via Chaotic Advection in 3D
Apr 24 Lawrie Virgin, Duke University A Case Study in Nonlinear Dynamics: A Rocking Block
NOTE: Special Date & Time: Wed 1-2PM, usual place
Apr 25 Matthew Nicol, University of Surrey Rigidity theorems in dynamics
May 2

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Last Updated on 3/6/02
By James Meiss
Email: jdm@colorado.edu