2001 Spring

Feb. 6: Dionisios Margetis (Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University)
Toward a General Theory of Bose-Einstein Condensation
Feb. 13: Shailesh Naire (Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Gravitationally-Driven Drainage of Thin Films
Feb. 27: Reka Albert (Physics, Notre Dame)
Statistical Physics of Complex Networks
Mar. 8: Alex Lobkovsky (NIST)
Equations with Singular Diffusivities
(Changed due to blizzard: New date, same time and place.)
Mar. 13: Horacio Rotstein (Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis)
Some Mathematical Aspects of Hyperbolic Front Dynamics
Mar. 20: Stephen Morris (Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin)
Apr. 3: Eli Barkai (Chemistry, MIT)
Anomalous Diffusion and Relaxation: A Fractional Fokker-Planck Equation Approach
Apr. 10: Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (CEA, Saclay, France, and Harvard, Physics)
Theory of Financial Risks.
NOTE: This is also a "Real World Colloquium" and will be at 4:30pm in 4-163. There will be additional lectures on April 12, April 19, and May 3, at the same time and place.)
Apr. 24: Franz-Josef Ulm (Civil Engineering, MIT)
What Osteoporosis and Concrete employed in Nuclear Waste Disposal have in Common
May 8: Andrew Belmonte (Mathematics, Penn. State)
May 15: Eric Vanden Eijnden (Courant Institute, NYU)

Organizers

MIT Professor of Applied Mathematics

MIT Professor of Applied Mathematics