Applied Math Colloquium Schedule (Fall 1997)

Most talks are at 4:15 pm in Room 2-105. Refreshments are typically served at 3:45 pm in Room 2-349. Questions should be addressed to the organizers, Michael Brenner and Sergey Fomin .

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Sept 4: Room 4-163 at 4pm
Jerry Gollub, Haverford College
Nonlinear Wave Patterns: Novel Symmetries
Sept. 8: Robert Almgren, University of Chicago
Phase Field Computations of Dendritic Solidification
Sept. 15: Peter Lax, Courant Institute
Dispersive Hyperbolic Systems
Sept. 22: September Holiday
Sept. 29: Alexander Koldobsky
University of Texas at San Antonio
May Smaller Bodies Have Uniformly Larger Central Sections?
Oct. 6: Oscar Bruno, Caltech
Oct 13: Columbus Day
Oct 20: Nick Higham, University of Manchester, England
Pitfalls in floating point computation -- and how to avoid them
Oct. 27: Santosh Vempala
Geometric Tools for Algorithms
Nov 3: Ravindran Kannan (Yale)
Nov 10: Holiday.
Nov 17: Thomas McMahon, Harvard University
Running on Water
Nov 24: Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii (Boston University)
Theoretical Models of DNA
Dec 1: Lorenzo Polvani, Columbia University
Dec 8: Michael E. Fisher, University of Maryland

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