Seminars on Dynamical Systems, Spring 2004

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

Date	Speaker	Title
Jan 15	No seminar
Jan 22	David Albers University of Wisconsin-Madison	A Dynamics Stability Conjecture
Jan 29	Terry Haut Brendan Sheehan	The Snowflake, the Dragon and Space-Filling Curves Chaotic Behavior of Newton's method
Feb 5	James Howard CIPS, CU Boulder	The Discrete Virial Theorem
Feb 12	Scott Peckham INSTAAR, CU Boulder	How to Make a Fractal Tree with Applications to River Networks
Feb 19	Paul Mullowney Applied Math	An Introduction to Anomalous Diffusion and Levy Flights
Feb 26	Changfeng Gui Univ. of Conn.	Some mathematical problems in phase transitions SPECIAL TIME & PLACE: 12:30-1:30 ECCR 245
Mar 4	Rob Knight MCDB, CU Boulder	Markov processes in molecular evolution
Mar 11	Mark Petersen Applied Math	A Study of Geophysical and Astrophysical Flows using Numerical Models
Mar 18	Rodney Anderson Aerospace Engineering, CU Boulder	The Role of Invariant Manifolds in Low Thrust Trajectory Design
March 25	Spring Break
Apr 1	Bob Easton Applied Math	Economics: What Good is a Model?
Apr 8	Josh Downer Applied Math	Modelling a Marginal Ice Zone as a Granular Material
Apr 15	Iuliana Oprea Colorado State University	Wave Patterns in Anisotropic Systems, with Application to Nematic Electroconvection
Apr 22	Alyn Rockwood Colorado School of Mines	The Singularities of Vector Fields Vector Field Software for PC
April 29	James Yorke University of Maryland	Modeling Explosive Epidemics: HIV/AIDS (video presentation of a seminar on 3/5 at Gaithersburg NIST)

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