2010-2011 Academic Year
All talks are in Thackeray 704 at 4 pm unless noted otherwise. Refreshments are usually served at 3:30 pm in Thackeray 705. If you have any questions about a particular colloquium, please contact the person hosting the speaker. For general questions about colloquium schedule, please contact Huiqiang Jiang (hqjiang@pitt.edu).
Fall 2010
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The dynamics of large networks of coupled oscillators (abstract) |
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Diffusion in Heterogeneous Environment (abstract) |
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2D Steady-State Navier-Stokes Flow Past a Cylinder: A Longstanding Open Problem (abstract) |
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Free Surface Problems in Fluid Dynamics(abstract) |
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The Hopf-Poincare-Birkhoff-Witt Theorem (abstract) |
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Stability and buckled states in continuum and discrete elastic rod models for DNA(abstract) |
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Algebraic equations on groups(abstract) |
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Linear stability of Scott Russell's solitary water wave (abstract) |
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Large Time Behavior of Solutions to n-Dimensional Bipolar Hydrodynamic Euler-Poisson System for Semiconductors (abstract) |
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On nematic liquid crystal flows in dimension two (abstract) |
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Reduction of molecular models for solids (abstract) |
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Principal eigenvalue and eigenfunction of an elliptic operator with large advection and its application to a competition model (abstract) |
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Spring 2011
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Maximizing The Utility Of Consumption With Reversible Annuities(abstract) |
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A Kinetic Approach To Granular Materials(abstract) |
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Nonlinear Modulational Stability Of Periodic & Traveling Waves In Viscous Balance Or Conservation Laws(abstract) |
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An Overview Of Localized Pattern Formation & Homoclinic Snaking(abstract) |
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Global Existence & Wave-Breaking Of Shallow Water Waves(abstract) |
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Ricci Solitons & Warped Product Einstein Metrics(abstract) |
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Eigenvalues Of The Sum Of Random Hermitian Matrices(abstract) |
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Metric-Induced Shape Formation In Thin Elastic Films(abstract) |
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A Weak Liouville-Arnold Theorem(abstract) |
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Large Scale Geometry Of Some Negatively Curved Homogeneous Manifolds(abstract) |
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Probabilistic Approach To Heat Kernels & Their Applications To Spectral Theory(abstract) |
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Geometric Structures In High Energy Physics(abstract) |
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Optimal Stopping Of A Diffusion With A Change Point(abstract) |
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Optimal Stopping For Dynamic Convex Risk Measures(abstract) |
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The Cauchy-Dirichlet Problem For The Fene Dumbbell Model Of Polymeric Flows(abstract) |
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Global Dynamics and Traveling Fronts of Reaction-diffusion System Arising from Auto-Catalysis (abstract) |
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Optimal Sobolev Norms And The L^P Minkowski Problem (abstract) |
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Selection Of Mixed-Mode Oscillations In A Neural Model - An Intricate Dynamics Induced By Canard And Singular Hopf Mechanisms (abstract) |
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San Aronsson Type Approach To Extremal Quasiconformal Mappings (abstract) |
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Global existence in critical spaces for incompressible viscoelastic fluids (abstract) |
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Vortices In Ginzburg-Landau Models (abstract) |
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Weak Grothendieck Compactness Principles (abstract) |
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Perimeter And Capacity In Sobolev Inequalities And Elliptic PDE'S (abstract) |
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Gravitation (abstract) |
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