Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Year 1996-1997


Friday, February 28, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech 3396, 1:30pm
Professor R. Almgren,   U. Chicago
Title: Phase-Field Asymptotics for Unequal Diffusivities
Abstract and details available


Friday, March 7, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech 3396, 1:30pm
Dr. C. Dettmann,   Northwestern U.
Title: Crisis in the Lorentz gas
Abstract and details available


Tuesday , March 11, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech 3396, 1:00pm
Professor R. Dorfman,   U. Maryland
Title: Some Applications of Chaos Theory to Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Special Note: Note unusual day and time
Abstract and details available


Friday, March 14, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech 3396, 1:30pm
Professor W. Kang,   U. Chicago
Title: Magneto-sonoluminescence: interplay of light and sound in magnetic fields
Contact info here


Friday, April 4, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech 3396, 2:00pm
Professor G. Vattay,   Eotvos U., Budapest, Hungary
Title: Periodic orbit theory in quantum and mesoscopic physics
Abstract and details available


Friday, April 11, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech 3396, 2:00pm
Professor U. Mueller,   Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
Title: Can the magnetic field of the earth be simulated in a laboratory experiment?
Abstract and details available


Friday, April 18, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech 3396, 2:00pm
Professor J.D. Crawford,   U. Pittsburgh
Title: Weakly unstable systems in the presence of neutrally stable modes
Abstract and details available


Friday, April 25, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech 3396, 2:00pm
Professor A. Bernoff,   Northwestern U.
Title: Longwave Models of Solidification: Self-similar Blow-up and its Regularization
Abstract and details available


Friday, May 2, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech 3396, 2:00pm
Professor C. Doering,   U. Michigan
Title: Convection, Stability and Turbulence
Abstract and details available


Friday, May 9, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech 3396, 2:00pm
Professor J. Franks,   Northwestern U.
Title: Periodic Points for Area Preserving Surface Homeomorphisms
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, May 13, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech 3396, 3:00pm
Prof. S. Dippel,   FZ Juelich, Germany
Title: Dissipation in granular flow on a rough inclined plane
Abstract and details available


Friday, May 16, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech 3396, 2:00pm
Professor A. Skeldon,   City University, London, UK
Title: Generic stability results for steady periodic patterns and their application to convection problems
Abstract and details available


Friday, May 30, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech 3396, 2:00pm
Professor T. Young,   Northwestern U.
Title: Triple collision in the Newtonian 3-body problem
Abstract and details available


Friday, June 6, 1997

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech 3396, 2:00pm
Professor P. Cvitanovic,   Northwestern U.
Title: Hopf's last hope: spatiotemporal chaos in terms of unstable recurrent patterns
Abstract and details available



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