FALL 2001

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 29  Benoit Perthame, Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris)
            Line energy Ginzburg-Landau variational problem and 
            its kinetic formulation 

Wed Sept 5  Fred Weissler, University of Paris XIII
            Universal solutions of a nonlinear heat equation

Wed Sept 12 A. Haro, Univ. de Barcelona
            Invariant manifolds under quasiperiodic 
            perturbations: Theory and computation.

Mon Sept 17 Johannes Kellendonk, Cardiff University (Wales)
            Aspects of a topological theory of point sets

Wed Sept 26 Karoly Bezdek, UT and Eötvös University (Budapest)
            Pushing disks apart - the Kneser-Poulsen conjecture 
            in the plane

Wed Oct 3   Arturo Olvera, Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
            Parametric resonance in the Oscillating Water 
            Column

Wed Oct 10  Carlo Cercignani, Politecnico di Milano
            On eternal solutions of the Boltzmann equation

Wed Oct 17  Mahesh Nerurkar, UT and Rutgers (Camden)
            Dynamics of skew product transformations

Wed Oct 24  H. Dean Victory, Texas Tech Univ
            On the convergence of particle methods for 
            relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell systems

Wed Oct 31  Lewis Bowen
            Completely saturated packings

Wed Nov 7   Pau Martin, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya 
            Abundance of analytic Hamiltonians 
            with Arnol'd diffussion

Wed Nov 14  Adam Oberman, UT
            Modeling reaction diffusion advection equations 
            by front propagation

Wed Dec 5   Jose Carrillo, Universidad de Granada
            tba