Applied Math Colloquium Schedule (Spring 1997)

All the talks are at 4:15 pm in Room 2-105. Refreshments are typically served at 3:45 pm in Room 2-349. For more information, contact the organizers, Michael Brenner and Sergey Fomin .

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Feb 10: Alar Toomre (MIT)
N Charges on a Sphere
Feb. 17: Presidents Day, Holiday
Feb. 24: Esteban Tabak (Courant Institute NYU)
Mar. 3: Adrian Ocneanu (Penn State)
Rigidity of TQFT's and the subgroups of quantum SU(2)
Mar. 10: Andrei Zelevinsky (Northeastern University)
Some unexpected interactions between Combinatorics and Representation Theory
Mar. 17: Robert Connelly (Cornell University)
The Bellows Conjecture
Mar. 24: Spring Vacation, Holiday
Mar. 31: Philippe Monthoux (Florida State University)
Adaptive state selection, the renormalization group and the quantum many-body problem
Apr. 7: Herb Keller (Caltech)
Hilbert's 16th Problem and the Justification of Numerical Solutions
Apr. 14: Andrew Belmonte (Pitt)
The Dynamical Selection of Form: Spiral, Paper, Fish
Apr. 21: Patriots Day, Holiday
Apr. 28: John Ewing (American Mathematical Society)
100 years of American Mathematics
May 5: Eberhard Bodenshatz (Cornell)
Title TBA
May 12: Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Yale University
Do viscous effects vanish in high-Reynolds-number turbulence?
May 13: Special Applied Mathematics Colloquium Room 1-390 at 1pm William W. Kahan, UC Berkeley
Why use Tangents when Secants will do?

Previous semesters' schedules:

Spring 1995 Colloquium Schedule

Fall 1995 Colloquium Schedule

Spring 1996 Colloquium Schedule

Fall 1996 Colloquium Schedule Coming soon: the Fall 1997 Colloquium Schedule.

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