FALL 2007 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. Fri, Sept 7: Luis Boya (Univ of Zaragoza) The Monster Group and Physics Fri, Sept 21: Jim Kelliher (Brown) Eigenvalues of the Stokes operator versus the Dirichlet Laplacian Mon, Sept 24: Corey O'Hern (Yale) Are Dense Granular Shear Flows Ergodic? (Joint with Nonlinear Dynamics: 1:00pm in RLM 11.204) Wed, Sept 26: Natasa Pavlovic Regularity of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations evolving from small initial data in a critical space Wed, Oct 17: Charles Radin Phase transitions in granular media Fri, Oct 26: Jalal Shatah (Courant) Hydrodynamic instabilities and free boundary problems Mon, Oct 29: Bulbul Chakraborty (Brandeis) Entropy and "Temperature" of Granular Packings (Joint with Nonlinear Dynamics: 1:00pm in RLM 11.204) Mon, Nov 5: Lai-Sang Young (Courant) Shear-induced mixing Math Colloquium Wed, Dec 5: Anton Arnold (Technical Univ Vienna) Quantum-Fokker-Planck models: global solutions, steady states and large time behavior Note room and time: RLM 10.176 at 1:00