Applied Math Events 2002-2003

Almost all of the events occur on Fridays, either at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Toronto or at the Fields Institute.

The nearest subway station to the math department is St George. Walk two blocks south from Bloor, walking along St George. Sidney Smith is on the west side of St George, about 50 meters south of Harbord. (To reach the Fields Institute, walk two more blocks south on St George until you reach College. Turn right and walk about 50 meters. The Fields Institute is to your right at 222 College St.)

The nearest subway station to the Fields Institute is Queens Park. Walk four blocks west on College, cross St George, and about 50 meters further you'll find the Fields Institute to your right at 222 College St. (To reach the math department, turn right on St George, walk two blocks north until you reach Wilcocks. Sidney Smith Hall is about ten meters further on your left.)

For more information, please contact one of the organizers: Jim Colliander (colliand@math.utoronto.ca), Adrian Nachman (nachman@math.utoronto.ca), and Mary Pugh (mpugh@math.utoronto.ca).
 

Legend:

        FC = Fields Colloquium in Applied Mathematics, Fields Institute, 1:10 pm

        MOM=Fields Colloquium on Mathematics Outside Mathematics, Fields Institute, 1:10 pm

        TS=University of Toronto Applied Mathematics Seminar, 5017A Sidney Smith Hall, 2:10 pm (3:10pm if there is an event at Fields)

Another weekly applied math event is the Weekly Working Seminar on Nonlinear Evolution Equations which meets in the Fields Institute boardroom on Wednesdays at 2:10p.m.

 
 





Date

Forum

Speaker

Affiliation

Title
September 13, 2002 TS: 3:10pm Alex Tamasan University of Toronto An inverse boundary value problem in optical tomography

September 19, 2002 (!!Thursday!!)

 TS: 4:10pm, SS5017A  Jerry Bona University of Illinois at Chicago  On the theory of longwave models
September 27, 2002 TS: 2:10pm Lars Jonsson University of Toronto On soliton dynamics in an external potential for the nonlinear Schroedinger equation
September 30, 2002 (!!Monday!!) TS: 11:10am, SS 2115 Stefanella Boatto UFPE - Recife Stability of Point Vortex Systems 
October 4, 2002 TS: 2:10pm Sue Ann Campbell University of Waterloo Rings of Oscillators with Delayed Coupling 
October 7, 2002 
(!!Monday!! venue change)		 TS: 2:10pm/ 
Room: SS1078		 Gadi Fibich Tel Aviv University Nonlinear Schrodinger equations with high-order dispersion
October  16, 2002 (!!Wednesday!!) TS: 2:10pm/Fields Inst. Boardroom Steve Shkoller University of California, Davis The Navier-Stokes equations with a free-surface and surface tension
October 18, 2002 FC FC: 1:10pm Charles Fefferman Princeton University Formation of sharp fronts in 2D incompressible fluids
October 25, 2002 TS: 2:10pm Yong Jung Kim  Kyunghee University, Korea  Asymptotic convergence in convection-diffusion equations
November 1, 2001 MOM MOM: 1:10pm Stuart Whittington University of Toronto  Randomly coloured self-avoiding walks: A model of random copolymers
November 1, 2002 TS: 3:10pm Michael Cranston University of Rochester Lyapunov exponent for the parabolic Anderson model
November 8, 2002 TS: 2:10pm Oleg Bogoyavlenskij  Queens University  Exact solutions to the Navier-Stokes' and MHD equations
November 15, 2002 TS: 2:10pm Andrew Comech University of North Carolina Purely nonlinear instability of minimal energy standing waves
November 22, 2002 FC FC: 1:10pm Sergiu Klainerman Princeton University The problem of evolution in General Relativity
November 29, 2002 TS: 2:10pm Alejandro Ramirez Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile  Transition from Quenched to Annealed Asymptotics for Random Walks Among Random Traps 
December 6, 2002 TS: 3:10pm David Fremlin University of Essex  Asymptotic density and equidistributed sequences 
December 13, 2002 FC FC: 1:10pm Charles Epstein University of Pennsylvania  Pulse synthesis in NMR
December 13, 2002 TS: 3:10pm Nicholas Kevlahan McMaster University An Adaptive Wavelet Method for Fluid-Structure Interaction in Primitive Variables
January 10, 2003 FC FC: 1:10pm Joel Smoller University of Michigan  Cosmology, Black Holes, and Shock Waves Beyond the Hubble Distance
January 17, 2003 TS: 2:10pm Oliver Chen and Alexey Kusnetzov University of Toronto Integrable diffusions, q-deformations and credit risk
January 24, 2003 TS: 2:10pm Scipio Cuccagna University of Virginia On Asymptotic Stability of Ground States of Nonlinear Schroedinger Equations
January 24, 2003
 TS: 3:10pm
 Boris Mityagin
 Ohio State University
 Spectral gaps of Schroedinger and Dirac operators and smoothness of their potentials
January 31, 2003 TS: 3:10pm Georgia Karali University of Toronto Dynamics of Coarsening
February 6, 2003
!!Thursday!! SS5017A
 TS: 4:10pm Alexander Tovbis
 University of Central Florida
 Semiclassical (zero dispersion) limit of a certain class of solutions to the focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation
February 7, 2003 MOM: 1:10pm John Sipe University of Toronto Effective field theories for nonlinear optics in artificially structured materials
February 7, 2003 TS: 3:10pm Lenya Ryzhik University of Chicago Time reversal of waves in random media
February 7, 2003 TS: 5:10pm Lenya Ryzhik University of Chicago Reaction-diffusion fronts in flows: speed-up and quenching
February 14, 2003 TS: 3:10pm Aaron Yip Purdue University  Structures of Local Minimizers of a One-Dimensional Higher Order Variational Problem
February 17, 2003 FC  FC: 1:10pm Rafe Mazzeo
 Stanford University
 Poincare-Einstein metrics on the large and small scale
February 28, 2003 TS: 3:10pm Neal Madras York University Polymers and Percolation on Hyperbolic Graphs
March 7, 2003  TS: 3:10pm Mihalis Dafermos M.I.T. The internal structure of black holes and the problem of uniqueness in general relativity
March 14, 2003 FC FC: 1:10pm Russel Caflisch U.C.L.A. Dynamics of a Step Edge in Thin Film Growth
March 14, 2003 TS: 3:10pm Kenji Nakanishi Nagoya U./Princeton U. Endpoint Strichartz estimate and global solutions for nonlinear Dirac equation
March 21, 2003 MOM MOM: 1:10pm Ray Kapral University of Toronto Twisting Filaments in Oscilatory Media
March 28, 2003 MOM MOM: 1:10pm Eugene Fiume University of Toronto Signal theoretic characterisation of three dimensional polygonal geometry
March 28, 2003 TS: 3:10pm Vitali Vougalter
 McMaster University
 Pauli operator and Aharonov Casher theorem for measure valued magnetic fields
April 4, 2003 TS: 3:10pm Sara Maad Mittag-Leffler Institute Semilinear elliptic equations on unbounded domains
April 11, 2003 FC FC: 1:10 pm Peter Constantin
 University of Chicago
 Remarks on Rotating Fluids
April 11, 2003 TS: 3:10pm Xiaodong Yan
 Courant Institute
 Upper bounds on coarsening rates
April 17, 2003 (!!Thursday!!) TS: 1:30pm Frank Kschischang University of Toronto Approaching Capacity with Codes Defined on Graphs
April 17, 2003 (!!Thursday!!) TS: 3:00pm Tom Salisbury York University Liquidity premiums for variable annuities
April 25, 2003 TS: 3:10pm Richard Laugesen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Does a circular plate buckle more easily than any other shape?