Applied Mathematics 8100

Seminars on Dynamical Systems, Spring 2003

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

Date Speaker Title
Jan 16 no Meeting
Jan 23 Michael Weinstein
Special Time and Place: 4PM Duane G031
Resonance Problems in Photonics
Jan 30 Panos Panayotaros Birkhoff normal forms in the periodic DMNLS equation
Feb 6 Merideth Betterton Opening of DNA by helicases, part 1
Feb 13 Merideth Betterton Opening of DNA by helicases, part 2
Feb 20 John Hart, PAOS, CU Boulder Flow instabilities in the presence of magnetic gravity
Feb 27 Daniel Hodyss, UC Davis Solitary Rossby Waves in Zonally Varying Atmospheric Flow
Mar 6 Srinath Vadlamani and Mark Petersen The nonlinear ion-temperature gradient instability and
Verification of the Intermediate Quasi-Geostrophic Model
Mar 13 James Meiss Volume Preserving Mappings: a few Answers and many Questions
Mar 20 Thomas Perkins JILA and MCDB Watching single molecules move along DNA
March 27 Spring Break
Apr 3  
Apr 10 Dmitri Veras, LASP Outward Migration of Extrasolar Planets to Large Orbital Radii due to Gravitational Scattering
Apr 17 Jim Howard, CIPS Dust Dynamics near Jupiter
Apr 24 Dave Farrelly, Utah State Univ. Chaos Assisted Capture of Irregular Moons and Kuiper-Belt Binary Formation (and what on Earth does this have to do with Chemistry?)
May 1  

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