FALL 1999 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 1: Alex Haro Converse KAM Theory for symplectic skew-products Wednesday, Sept 8: Ioana Moise The renormalization group method: application to rotating fluids Wednesday, Sept 15: Jack Xin Self-Similar Decay in the Kraichnan Model of a Passive Scalar Wednesday, Sept 22: Juan Abad Renormalization and Periodic Orbits in Hamiltonian Systems Wednesday, Sept 29: Irene Gamba Positive solutions to singular second and third order differential equations for quantum fluids in bounded domains Monday, Oct 4: Kalyan Sinha (Indian Statistical Institute - Delhi) Stochastic Flows on a von Neumann algebra. Wednesday, Oct 13: No seminar, because of AMS conference in Austin Wednesday, Oct 20: Carlo Cercignani (Politecnico di Milano) The present status of the mathematical theory of discrete velocity models Monday, Oct 25: Bob Eisenberg (Rush Medical Center) Ionic Channels: Natural Nanotubes described by the Drift Diffusion Equation Wednesday, Nov 3: Jose Carrillo Mathematical aspects of kinetic equations for rapid granular flows Wednesday, Nov 10: Dirk Gillespie A Singular Perturbation Analysis of the Poisson-Nernst-Planck System: Application to Ionic Channels Wednesday, Nov 17: Mohammed Ziane (Texas A&M) Attractors for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations Monday, Nov 29: Claudia Valls (Univ. de Barcelona) On splitting and diffusion phenomena in Hamiltonian systems Wednesday, Dec 1: Jacques Bailly Some results for the Hele-Shaw and Muskat problems Thursday, Dec 2: Laszlo Erdos (Georgia Tech) Derivation of Boltzmann equations from microscopic quantum mechanics, in room 12.166 at 2:00 Wednesday Dec 8: Antonio Pumari\~no (Univ. de Oviedo) Infinitely many persistent strange attractors: An example Dynamical Sustems Seminar RLM 10.176 4:00pm