Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Fall 2008 - Spring 2009

(listings for other semesters)

The Applied Mathematics Colloquium combines lectures by our faculty, visiting scholars from other institutions, and scholars from other science departments at UNC. The latter contributions are particularly important as we develop collaborations on our own research interests, on shared applied science curricula, and on the developments of our graduate program. These seminar lectures allow faculty and graduate students to view applied science with a mathematical flavor, to meet a diverse group of applied scientists, and for graduate students in particular to get a sense of potential career opportunities. All are welcome!

Refreshments prior to the talk will be served in Phillips Hall, Room 330, at 3:30pm. The seminars will be held at 4pm in Phillips Hall, Room 332, unless otherwise noted.

Friday August 29th, 4pm

Nikolay Dokholyan, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Simplified approaches to complex biological systems?"

Friday September 5th, 4pm

Brian White, Department of Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Gravity Currents and Nonlinear Internal Waves in a Stratified Fluid?"

Friday September 12th, 4pm

Howard Stone, Harvard University
"Microfluidic flows with axial transport and transverse variations: (1) Nonlinear enzymatic kinetics, and (2) Shear-enhanced diffusion of disk-shaped particles?"

Friday September 19th, 4pm

Richard M. McLaughlin
"Taylor Dispersion?"

Friday September 26th, 4pm

Adam Frank, University of Rochester
"Astrophysics with AstroBEAR?"

Friday October 3rd, 4pm

TBA

Friday October 10th, 4pm

Danny Forger, University of Michigan
"Voter Fraud in the SCN: Detecting the Crimes of Biological Timekeeping?"

Friday October 17th

Fall Break

Friday October 24th, 4pm

Richard Kollar, University of Michigan
"Two Methods for Nonlinear and Non-Self-Adjoint Spectral Problems?"

Friday October 31st, 4 pm

Mark Levi, Penn State
"Arnold diffusion in a chain of coupled pendula?"

Friday November 7th, 4 pm

Wooyoung Choi, NJIT
"Theoretical and experimental studies on the evolution of nonlinear water waves - First steps towards predicting the occurrence of rogue waves?"

Friday November 14th, 4 pm

Paul Newton, University of Southern California
"Vortex lattice theory: A particle interaction perspective?"

Friday November 21st, 4 pm

No Seminar

Friday November 28th

Thanksgiving break

Friday, January 23, 2009

Garyk Papoian, UNC
"TBA?"

Friday, January 30, 2009

K. R. Rajagopal, Texas A&M University
"TBA?"

Friday, February 13, 2009

Joyce Lin, UNC
"The tortoise and the hare: prolonged residence time of a sphere falling through stratified fluid?"

Friday, February 27, 2009

Stephen Childress, New York University "Inertial swimming as a singular perturbation?"

Friday, March 6, 2009

Jared Bronski, University of Illinois "TBA?"

Friday, March 20, 2009

Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Harvard & Oxford "Measuring and modeling social networks and social influence?"

Friday, March 27, 2009

Charlie Doering, Michigan "TBA?"

Friday, April 3, 2009

Sorin Mitran, UNC "A fresh look at dispersion-preserving, compact schemes using the Z-transform?"

Friday, April 10, 2009

Peter Vorobieff, University of New Mexico
"Turbulence in three, two, and one dimension?"

Friday, April 17, 2009

Nina Fefferman, Rutgers
"TBA?"

Friday, April 24, 2009

Roman Stocker, M.I.T.
"Life in a drop of ocean?"

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

P. D. Weidman, University of Colorado
"Mathematical Equations for the Shape of the Eiffel Tower with an Historical Perspective?"