From: hochberg@ACFCLUSTER.NYU.EDU
Subject: CIMS, NYU - Weekly Bulletin - 10/7/92
Organization: New York University
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:30:31 GMT

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

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7

      PROBABILITY/STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

      SPECIAL ROBOTICS SEMINAR:  4:30 P.M., 179 Broadway, 12th Fl.
      Conference Room
      Topological Structure of Configuration Space
      Juergen Sellen, University of Saarbruecken, Germany

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8

      COLLOQUIUM ON USE OF COMPUTERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION,
      10:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 102
      Computer Technologies and Networking in the Baltic Countries
      Algirdas Pakstas and Sonata Pakstienne (Institute of Mathematics
      and Informatics of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences)
      All NYU faculty, staff, and students are welcome. If you are
interested in attending, please call 998-3333; it will help us in our
planning. We hope you will be able to join us. This colloquium is sponsored
by the Academic Computing Facility, the Faculty
of Arts and Science: Depts. of Politics and Computer Science, and the
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, with support
from Apple Computer, Inc.

      MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:  1:30 P.M., WWH 613*
      Effect of Nonaxisymmetric Magnetic Perturbations on Divertor Heat Load
      Bas Braams, CIMS
      *Please note the change in room number.

      MATH STUDENT SEMINAR:  3:20 - 4:20 P.M., WWH 101
      Maximum Principle for Second Order Elliptic PDE
      Xavier Cabre, CIMS
      First year graduate students are very welcome. New result will be
presented. Note the special time and room.

      NONLINEAR WAVES SEMINAR:  3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 813
      On a Model of Dynamical Combustion
      Arnon Levy, CIMS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9

      NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
      A New Numerical Method for Shock Propagation Based on Geometrical
Shock Dynamics
      D. Schwendeman, RPI

      COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:  11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
      Effective Storage Management for Polymorphically Typed
Programming Languages
      Ben Goldberg, Computer Science Department, New York University

      APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:  2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
      Vortex Morphology and Kelvin's Theorem
      Alain Pumir, ENS, Ecole Normal Superieur
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12

      SPECIAL MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:  1:30 P.M., WWH 1302
      A Free Boundary Eigenvalue Problem
      Rita Meyer-Spasche, Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13

      GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  6:00 P.M., WWH 513
      New Bounds on Weak n-Nets
      Micha Sharir, Tel Aviv

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
      Delort's Result on the Existence of 2-D Vortex Sheet
      Yuxi Zheng, CIMS

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

      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.

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

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

      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

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27

      GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  6:00 P.M., WWH 513
      Cube Tilings and Curious Codes
      Peter Shor, Bell Labs
                    ACADEMIC COMPUTING FACILITY


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