Physical Mathematics Seminar

Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30pm, Room 2-338

Refreshments in Room 2-349 at 3:30pm


Spring 2001 Schedule

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. 20: No seminar.

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. 17: No seminar. MIT Holiday.

Apr. 24: Franz-Josef Ulm (Civil Engineering, MIT)
What Osteoporosis and Concrete employed in Nuclear Waste Disposal have in Common

May 1: No Seminar.

May 8: Andrew Belmonte (Mathematics, Penn. State)

May 15: Eric Vanden Eijnden (Courant Institute, NYU)


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