Fall 1997

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


Wednesday, Sept 3: Misha Vishik
                   Incompressible flows of an ideal fluid with vorticity 
                   in borderline spaces of Besov type
                   Analysis Seminar, RLM 10.176, 12:30

Wednesday, Sept 10: Charles Radin
                    Hierarchical structures

Wednesday, Sept 17: Jiahong Wu
                    Inviscid limit of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation
                    *** Note: this will be at an unusual time: 12:00 ***
                        (but usual room, 12.166)

Wednesday, Sept 24: Michael Rudnev
                    Arnold's diffusion. Review of recent work.
                    Still on the level of understanding the difficulties.

Friday, Oct 3: Jorge Kurchan, Ecole Normale Superieure - Lyon
               Glassy dynamics and optimization

Wednesday, Oct 8: Oliver Knill
                  A displacement theorem relating Vlasov and n-body dynamics

Wednesday, Oct 22: Mark Raizen (UT, physics)
                   Tests of quantum chaos with ultracold atoms

Tuesday, Oct 28: Stephen Semmes (Rice)
                 Spaces less than smooth
                 Analysis Seminar, RLM 9.166, 3:30

Wednesday, Oct 29: George Baker (Los Alamos)
                   Hyperscaling, the Renormalized Coupling 
                   Constant, and the Three Dimensional Ising Model

Wednesday, Nov 5: Randy Paul
                  A KAM Theorem for some degenerate Hamiltonian systems

Wednesday, Nov 12: Irene Gamba
                   Strong field approximations to Boltzmann-Poisson systems

Monday, Nov 17: Vladimir Zakharov (Arizona)
                Statistical Theory of Surface Waves
                TICAM Seminar, Tay 2.316M, at 3:30

Tuesday, Nov 18: Vladimir Zakharov (Arizona)
                 How to Distinguish an Integrable Nonlinear Wave 
                 System from Nonintegrable one
                 TICAM Seminar, Tay 2.316M, at 2:00

Wednesday, Nov 19: Vladimir Zakharov (Arizona)
                   N-orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems 
                   for integrable systems of hydrodynamic type
                   CAM Seminar, RLM 12.166, at 1:00

Thursday, Nov 20: Fang Hua Lin (Courant)
                  tba
                  Analysis Seminar, 2:00

Friday, Nov 21: David Ruelle (IHES)
                New theoretical ideas in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
                Colloquium, RLM 7.104, at 4:00

Wednesday, Nov 26: John Vano
                   Nash-Moser type implicit function theorems. An introduction

Friday, Dec 5: Robert Eisenberg (Rush Medical School, Chicago)
               Ionic channels in biological membranes: natural nanotubes described
               by the drift-diffusion equations
               Ticam seminar, RLM 12.166 at 4:00 pm