FALL 1998

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 2: Jose Antonio Carrillo (Univ of Granada)
                   Asymptotic behavior of Fokker-Planck type equations

Wednesday, Sept 2: Tom Lubensky (Univ of Pennsylvania)
                   Topological defects, interactions, and chaining in nematic emulsions
                   Physics Colloquium, RLM 4.102, 4:00

Thursday, Sept 3: Nurit Krausz
                  Quantum dynamics on non-compact group manifolds
                  Global Analysis Seminar, RLM 9.166,  3:30

Wednesday, Sept 9: Amadeu Delshams (Univ. Polit. Catalunya)
                  Perturbed ellipsoidal billiards

Monday, Sept 14: Eric Kostelich (Arizona State)
                 Bootstrap estimates of chaotic dynamics
                 Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar, RLM 11.204, 1:00

Wednesday, Sept 16: Teresa M. Seara (Univ. Polit. Catalunya)
                    Orbits of unbounded energy in periodic perturbations of geodesic 
                    flows in ${\bf T}^2$

Monday, Sept 21: R. de la Llave
		Non-resonant invariant manifolds
		Dynamical Systems seminar, RLM 9.166, 3:00

Wednesday, Sept 23: Enrico Valdinoci
                    Whiskered tori and transition properties in Hamiltonian systems

Wednesday, Sept 30: Charles Radin
                    What to Think of Penrose Tilings

Wednesday, Oct 7: Oliver Knill
                  On the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of the Chirikov Standard map

Tuesday, Oct 13: I. Gamba
		Kinetic-fluid interfaces for multi-scale problems in charged transport
		TICAM seminar, SHC 329

Wednesday, Oct 14: Nikola Petrov
		 Applications of the theory of circle maps to radiation in resonant cavities

Wednesday, Oct 21: Min Chen
		Multi-pulsed traveling wave solutions of a Boussinesq system

Wednesday, Oct 28: Hans Koch
                   A renormalization group approach to critical invariant tori

Wednesday, Nov 4: Anatoly Neishtadt (Russian Academy of Sciences)
                   Stability islands in the domain of separatrix crossing 

Wednesday, Nov 11: Naoufel Ben Abdallah (Univ. P. Sabatier, Touluse)
    	   	Inflow boundary conditions for Schro"dinger--Poisson system 
     
Wednesday, Nov 18: A. Bobylev (Russian Academy of Sciences and Keldish Institute)
              Discretizations of continuous systems in Mathematical Physics 
              and related problems in number theory 

Mon, Nov 30: Giovanni Gallavotti (U. di Roma, Rutgers U.)
             The chaotic hypothesis: some implications in nonequilibrium 
             statistical mechanics and fluidodynamics 

Mon, Nov 30: Giovanni Gallavotti (U. di Roma, Rutgers U.)
             A review on the homoclinic splitting problem
             and phase space diffusion 4:00 pm, RLM 12.166