From: hochberg@ACFCLUSTER.NYU.EDU (Estelle Hochberg)
Subject: CIMS Weekly Bulletin, Nov. 11, 1992
Organization: New York University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:14:36 GMT

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New York University
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Warren Weaver Hall
251 Mercer Street, New York, N.Y.  10012
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11

PROBABILITY/STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Stochastic Geometric Aspects of Quantum Spin Chains
Bruno Nachtergale, Princeton University

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS DIVISION:  1:30 P.M., WWH 613
Status and Prospects of Inertial Fusion
R. McCrory, University of Rochester

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Morse Type Inequality for Palais-Smale Sequences
Nasif Ghoussoub, University of British Columbia

NONLINEAR WAVES SEMINAR:  3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 813
Sup-Norm Stability for Glimm's Scheme I
R. Young, CIMS

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13

TWENTIETH COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY DAY:  WWH 109

10:00-10:30         Coffee

10:30-11:15         Pankaj Agarwal, Duke University
                                                                           
        Half-Space Reporting, Ray Shooting, and Geometric Optimization

11:30-12:15         Jeff Kahn, Rutgers University
Geometric Aspects of Sorting Partially Ordered Sets

12:30-2:00          Lunch

2:00-3:00            Open Problem Session

3:00-3:45            Laszlo Lov sz, Princeton University
                                                                           
        Decision Trees and Mibius Functions

4:00-5:00            Wine and Cheese Reception (13th Floor Lounge)


FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13 (Continued)

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Optimal Design of Shell Structures and Higher-Order Optimality Conditions
Ulf Ringertz, Aeronautical Research Institute of Sweden

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:  11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
A Miniature Direct-Drive Two-Link Actuator
Richard Wallace, NYU, Dept. of Computer Science

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13 (Continued)

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:  2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Dynamics of Microstructure
Peter Kloucek, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:  4:00 P.M., WWH 1302
On Scalar Curvature Equation
Alice Chang, Institute for Advanced Studies

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  6:00 P.M., WWH 513
Iterated Fiber Polytopes
Lou Billera, Cornell University

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES SEMINAR:  10:00 A.M., 12th Floor Conference Room, 719
Broadway
Prototyping Fortran-90 Compilers for Networks of Computers
Marina Chen, Yale University

PROBABILITY/STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Gaussian Limit of Critical Oriented Percolation in High Dimensions
Wei-Shih-Yang, Temple University

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Sharp Counter Example to Local Existence of Low Regularity
Solutions of Nonlinear Wave Equations
Hans Linblad, Princeton University

NONLINEAR WAVES SEMINAR:  3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 813
Sup-Norm Stability for Glimm's Scheme II
R. Young (CIMS)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Fast Multiresolution Algorithms for Matrix-Vector Multiplication
Ami Harten, Tel-Aviv University and CIMS

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:  11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Engineering Parallel Sorting Algorithms
Bruce Maggs, Princeton University

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:  2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Optical Self-Focusing in Nematic Liquid Crystals
David Muraki, Program in Computation and Applied Mathematics,
Princeton University
 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 (Continued)

COLLOQUIUM ON USES OF COMPUTERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION LEARNING AND
RESEARCH:  2:00 P.M., WWH 109
Building the Foundations for a Worldwide Multimedia Network
Eric M. Hoffert, Senior Research Scientist, Advanced Technology Group,
Apple Computer, Inc.
Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Science: Departments of Fine Arts
and Computer Science; the Interactive
Telecommunications Program (Tisch School of the Arts); the Hippocrates
Project (NYU School of Medicine); and the Academic
Computing Facility, with support from Apple Computer, Inc. All are welcome.
If you are interested in attending, please call
998-3333; it will help us in our planning.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR:  2:00 P.M., Meyer Hall, Room 613
Turbulent Mixing
Shraiman B, AT&T Bell Laboratories

SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:  2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Entropic Convergence and the Linearized Limit of the Boltzmann Equation
C. David Levermore, University of Arizona, Tucson
Note special time: There are two Math Colloquia on Monday, November 23rd.

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:  4:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Sequential Absorption
Jerry Percus, CIMS

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24

SPECIAL MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:  1:30 P.M., WWH 813
Collapsing Systems: The Critical State of a Large System of Purely
Attractive Particles
A. Compagner, University of Delft, The Netherlands

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  6:00 P.M., WWH 513
Borsuk's Conjecture is False
Jeff Kahn, Rutgers University

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25

PROBABILITY/STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  12:30 P.M., WWH 1303
Interface Dynamics in Spin Systems
Errico Presutti, University of Rome II
Note special time for this week's seminar. Bring your lunch.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2

SPECIAL TALK:  3:45 P.M., WWH 813
How the Theory of Elliptic Functions Grew Out of a Peculiar 17th Century
Notion of Integrals
Harold M. Edwards, CIMS
This talk is an introduction to the course G63.2160.02 being given in
the Spring term.


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