Previous Drexel PDE/Applied Math Seminars




Schedule, Winter/Spring 2009:

February 2nd, 2009 (4:00PM)
Diffusive synchronization of oscillations
Arnd Scheel, University of Minnesota

February 9th, 2009 (2:00PM)
Efficient numerical computation of fluid interfaces with soluble surfactant
Michael Siegel, New Jersey Institute of Technology

March 13th, 2009 (1:00PM) (Note the unusual day/time)
Waves in Excitable Media with Periodic Forcing
John Wesley Cain, Virginia Commonwealth University

April 13th, 2009 (2:00PM)
Non-homogeneous Boundary Value Problems of Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations
Bing-Yu Zhang, University of Cincinnati

April 27th, 2009 (2:00PM)
Global Existence for Small Data Water Waves
Nader Masmoudi, Courant Institute

May 11th, 2009 (2:00PM)
Local attractors in a low-dimension model for pulsed-lasers
Ted Farnum, Kean University

June 8th, 2009 (2:00PM)
Optimal finite-difference grids for Neumann-to-Dirichlet operators
Vladimir Druskin, Schlumberger-Doll Research

June 22nh, 2009 (2:00PM)
Cavitation in Nonlinear Elasticity: Existence Theory and Numerical Methods
Pablo V. Negron-Marrero, University of Puerto Rico

Schedule, Fall 2008:

October 10th, 2008 (4:00PM)
Stability of surface waves on deep water
Diane Henderson, Pennsylvania State University

October 17th, 2008 (4:00PM)
Numerical simulations of surface water waves
Philippe Guyenne, University of Delaware

October 24th, 2008 (4:00PM)
Cloaking and near-cloaking of electromagnetic waves
Michael Vogelius, Rutgers University

November 3rd, 2008 (4:00PM)
Debye sources and the numerical solution of Maxwell's equations
Charlie Epstein, University of Pennsylvania

November 13th, 2008 (11:00AM)
Physics-based modeling of measurement correlations
Guillaume Bal, Columbia University

November 21st, 2008 (4:00PM)
Nonlinear stability of time-periodic viscous shocks
Margaret Beck, Brown University

December 5th, 2008 (1:00PM)
The vanishing viscosity limit for incompressible flows and the expanding domain problem
Helena Nussenzveig Lopes, University of Campinas


For more information on this seminar, or to join our mailing list, please contact:
J. Douglas Wright
jdoug @ math . drexel . edu
Department of Mathematics
Drexel University

Organizing Committee: David Ambrose, Shari Moskow, Doug Wright