FALL 2008 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 Sept 3: David Aristoff Random loose packing in granular matter Wed Sept 10: Thomas Chen One-particle quantum dynamics in random media Fri Sept 12: Thomas Chen On fermionic manybody quantum dynamics and charge transport Wed Sept 24: Alexis Vasseur Higher derivative estimates for the 3D Navier-Stokes equation Wed Oct 8: Irene Gamba Spectral/Lagrangian approximations for conservative or dissipative non-linear Boltzmann type equations Wed Nov 5: Naoufel Ben Abdallah (Universite Paul Sabatier, Touluose) Dimension reduction for Bose-Einstein condensates Fri Nov 7: Shabnam Beheshti (Tata/Mumbai) Understanding Two-Dimensional Gravitation via Integrable Systems Wed Nov 12: Gil Ariel An accelerated simulation of hard-spheres with disparate mass Fri Nov 14: Kui Ren Recent Progress on Inverse Transport Problems Fri Nov 21: Laurette Tuckerman (ESPCI, Paris) Turbulent-laminar banded patterns in plane Couette flow Wed Dec 3: Gustavo Gioia tba