Spring 2004 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 Jan 23: Marek Biskup (UCLA) Mesoscopic droplet formation in the 2D Ising model Wed Jan 28: C. Holton Structure of 3-interval exchange transformations Mon Feb 2: O. Gonzalez Sedimentation dynamics of rigid filaments Web Feb 11: P.-L. Lions (College de France) Nash equilibria and mean field theory Web Feb 18: Yann Brenier (Universite de Nice, CNRS) Interpolation of fluid motions and nonlinear electromagnetism Web Feb 25: Peter Markowich (Univ of Vienna) PDE models for chemotaxis Wed Mar 3: Raul Tempone Weak approximation of stochastic differential equations with jumps Mon Mar 8: Stephan Luckhaus (University of Leipzig) Explicit rectifiability estimates for varifolds and existence proofs for mean curvature type flows Wed Mar 10: Charles Radin Existence of ground states configurations Wed Mar 24: Jose Carrillo (Barcelona) Consequences of contractivity of Wasserstein-type metrics: Granular media and nonlinear diffusion models Wed Mar 31: Teresa M. Seara (Univ. Polit. Catalunya) Quantitative surgery: a way to estimate the size of a Herman ring for a complex map Wed Apr 7: Amandine Aftalion, University of Paris VI Vortices in rotating Bose Einstein condensates Wed Apr 14: Alexander Bobylev, University of Karlstad and the Keldysh Institute Inelastic Boltzmann equation and high-energy tails Wed Apr 28: Gianni Arioli, Politecnico di Milano A semilinear fourth order elliptic problem with exponential nonlinearity Wed May 5: Benoit Perthame (Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris) Selection, mutations: Adaptive dynamics