Fall 2002

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 28:  Benoit Perthame (Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris)
              Chemotaxis: From microscopic to macroscopic

Wed, Sept 4:  Misha Vishik
              Stability in an ideal incompressible fluid

Wed, Sept 18: Joao Lopes-Dias (U. Cambridge, UK)
              Renormalization of vector fields

Wed, Sept 25: Misha Vishik
              Asymptotic theory for quantum Bose systems with many
                 degrees of freedom

Wed, Oct 2:   Alejandra Gonzalez
              Existence of invariant tori close to an approximately 
                 invariant torus

Wed, Oct 9:   Jean Luc Guermond (TICAM and LIMSI-Paris)
              Mathematical perspectives on large eddy simulation models 
                 for turbulent flows 

Wed, Oct 16:  Irene Gamba
              Existence and estimates of high energy tails for
                 inelastic Boltzmann equation with forcing

Wed, Oct 23:  Lee Deville (RPI)
	      Approximating the dynamics of thin elastic media

Wed, Oct 30:  Rafael de la Llave
              Absence of certain singularities in Navier-Stokes and 
              Boussinesq equations

Mon. Nov 4:   Arturo Olvera (IIMAS-UNAM)
              Renormalization and obstruction in the disapearence of 
	      invariant circles for twist maps.

Wed, Nov 6:   Hong-Kai Zhao (Irvine)
              Time Reversal and Imaging for Acoustic Waves

Fri  Nov 8    Nikola Petrov (Univ. of Michigan) 
              Resonant cavities with quasi-periodically moving boundaries.

Wed. Nov 13:  R. Vitolo (Groningen)
	      Bifurcation and strange attractors in the Lorenz-84 climate model
	      with seasonal forcing

Wed, Nov 20:  Marian Gidea (Northeastern Illinois Univ)
	      Topological mechanisms for Arnold instability

Fri, Nov 22:  Gennady Berman (LANL)
              Quantum computation

Mon, Dec 2:   Alexis Vasseur (Nice)
              Blow up techniques for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

Wed, Dec 4:   Claude Bardos (Laboratoire J.L Lions, Univ. Paris VI)
              Mathematical Analysis of the Time Reversal Method