From: hochberg@ACFCLUSTER.NYU.EDU (Estelle Hochberg)
Subject: CIMS, NYU - Weekly Bulletin - 10/14/92
Organization: New York University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 22:18:22 GMT

                                                                           
                                                                
                              New York University
                  Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences 
                              Warren Weaver Hall
                   251 Mercer Street, New York, N.Y.  10012 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14

      PROBABILITY/STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
      Wulff Construction: Convexity Properties and Equivalence of Ensembles
      Jean Ruiz, Centre de Physique Theorique, Marseille

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15

      MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:  1:30 P.M., WWH 613*
      Alpha Particle Driven Bootstrap Current
      Choong-Seock Chang, CIMS
      *Please note the change in room number.

      MATH STUDENT SEMINAR:  3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
      Multipole Expansion and Applications
      Monique Moura and June-yub Lee, CIMS

      NONLINEAR WAVES SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 813
      Theory of Viscous Shock Waves (Survey)
      Zhouping Xin, CIMS
      Please note the change in schedule.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16

      NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
      Numerical Analysis Problems in Computer Aided Geometric Design
      Rida T. Farouki, IBM, Yorktown Heights

      SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
      Weakly Nonlinear Dynamics of High Speed Combustion Waves
      Rupert Klein, RWTH-Aachen

      COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:  11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
      Ode: An Object Database and Environment
      Narain Gehani, AT&T Bell Laboratories

      COLLOQUIUM ON USES OF COMPUTERS IN UNIVERSITY LEARNING AND RESEARCH: 
      2:00 P.M., WWH 109
      Collaborational Software for the Sciences: New Developments from NCSA
      Joseph Hardin, National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
University of Illinois.  Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Science:
Departments of Physics, Biology, and Computer Science and Center for Neural
Science; the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences; and the Academic
Computing Facility, with support from the IBM Corporation and Apple
Computer, Inc. All are welcome. If you are interested in attending, please
call 998-3333; it will help us in our planning.

      APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:  2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
      TBA
      Raymond Goldstein, Princeton University, Dept. of Physics

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19

      SPECIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  11:00 A.M., WWH 813
      Group Cohomology and the Symplectic Structure on Moduli Space
      A. Weinstein, UC-Berkeley

      MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:  4:00 P.M., WWH 1302
      Disordered Tilings of the Plane
      Charles Radin, University of Texas, Austin

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20

      SPECIAL NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  10:30 A.M., WWH 101
      Applications of Approximation Space Techniques to Multilevel
      Preconditioning
      Peter Oswald, Applied Mathematics Institute, Friedrich-Schiller
University, Jena, Germany
NOTE: Professor Oswald will be visiting CIMS from October 12-22. Please
contact Olof Widlund if you wish to meet him.

      GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  6:00 P.M., WWH 513
      On the Number of Convex Lattice Polytopes
      Imre Barany, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21

      PROBABILITY/STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
      Wetting of Substrates: A Rigorous Statistical Mechanical Approach
      Joel De Coninck, University of Mons, Belgium

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22

      MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:  1:30 P.M., WWH 613
      Large and Small Amplitude Expansions of Fast Dynamics
      Steve Childress, CIMS

      NONLINEAR WAVES SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 813
      Delort's Result on the Existence of 2-D Vortex Sheet
      Yuxi Zheng, CIMS
      Please note the change in schedule.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23

      NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
      Limit Analysis in Plasticity: A Rich Mathematical Programming Problem
      E. Christiansen, University of Odense

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26

      NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR:  2:00 P.M., 613 Meyer Hall (2-4
      Washington Place)
      Periodic Orbit Description of Diffusion in Lorentz Gases
      P. Cvetanovie, Niels Bohr Institute
      Sponsored by the NYU Department of Physics (FAS).

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27

      GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  6:00 P.M., WWH 513
      Cube Tilings and Curious Codes
      Peter Shor, Bell Labs
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28

      PROBABILITY/STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  THIS WEEK ONLY, THE
      SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE ON FRIDAY (See Below)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29

      MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:  1:30 P.M., WWH 613
      Passive Transport in Random Fields Near the Percolation Threshold
      Marco Avellenada, CIMS

      NONLINEAR WAVES SEMINAR:  3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 813
      Chemin's Result on the Global Regularity of Vortex Patches in 2-D
      Yuxi Zheng, CIMS
      Please note the change of schedule.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30

      NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
      Stable and Fast Algorithms for Updating the SVD
      Ming Gu, Yale University

      SPECIAL PROBABILITY/STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  11:00 A.M., WWH 813
      Mixing Properties of Gibbs Measures and Glauber Dynamics: New Progress
      Fabio Martinelli, University of Rome I