FALL 2000

For the following seminars, unless otherwise stated the hour is 11:00,
the room is RLM 12.166, and it is a Mathematical Physics Seminar

Wed Aug 30: A. Delshams, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya
	    Diffusion in Hamiltonian systems

Fri Sept 1: E. Valdinoci, U. Texas Austin
	    Bounds on Arnold diffusion time

Wed Sept 6: Fred Weissler, University of Paris XIII
            Universal bounds on global solutions of the nonlinear heat equation

Wed Sept 13: Oscar Gonzalez, U. Texas Austin
            Optimal shapes of elastic filaments with applications to biology

Wed Sept 20 Angel Jorba, Univ. of Barcelona
	    Spectrum of quasiperiodically forced systems

Wed Sept 27 Vladimir Varlamov
            Long-time asymptotics for the damped Boussinesq equation

Fri Oct 6  Robert Wyatt, UT Chemistry
           Trajectories in Stochastic Quantum Mechanics 

Mon Oct 9  Ali Naddaf
           Estimates On the Variance of Some Homogenization Problems

Mon Oct 16 Nader Masmoudi, Courant
           Existence results for some polymeric flows 

Wed Oct 18 Alex Haro, U. T. Austin/Univ. de Barcelona
	Invariant manifolds in quasiperiodic maps: rigorous results and computation

Wed Oct 25 Shmuel Kaniel, Hebrew University
           Gravity by differential forms

Wed Nov 1 Lorenzo Sadun
          Transport and dissipation in quantum pumps

Wed Nov 8 Cedric Villani, ENS-Lyon
          Boltzmann equation and long range interactions

Wed Nov 15 Jean Bellissard, Toulouse
           Anomalous Quantum Transport: a review
	
Mon Nov 20 Maria Esteban, University of Paris IX
           Some variational problems in relativistic quantum mechanics

Mon Nov 20 Jean Bellissard, Toulouse
           The Noncommutative Geometry of Aperiodic Solids
           Math Colloquium, RLM 6.104, 4:00

Wed Nov 29 Thierry Gallay, Univ de Paris-Sud
           Long-time asymptotics of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations in R^n

Wed Dec 6 Charles Radin
          Density in the hyperbolic plane