From: hochberg@ACFCLUSTER.NYU.EDU (Estelle Hochberg)
Subject: CIMS Weekly Bulletin - Nov. 18, 1992
Organization: New York University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:03:21 GMT

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


NOVEMBER 18, 1992:

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

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Computer Assisted Proofs in PDE's With Application to Bunsen Flames
Daniel Michaelson, Weitzmann Institute

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

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.

MODELING AND SIMULATION SEMINAR:  2:30 P.M., 12th Floor Conference Room, 719
Broadway
Scientific Visualization at the NYU Academic Computing Facility
Ed Friedman, ACF
Enter through 715 Broadway. Send email to hummel@cs.nyu.edu to be
included on the mailing list.

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 and room for this week's seminar. Bring your lunch.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Classical Global Existence for Super-Critical Nonlinearities and Large Data
Avy Soffa, Princeton University

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.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Revolution of the Yang-Mills Equation
M. Struwe, ETH

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:  1:30 P.M., WWH 613
Current Drive and Fast Electron Transport in PBX-M
Stan Kaye, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4

JOINT ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  3:00 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Localization Effects of Disorder in Operators With Random Matrix Elements
M. Aizenman, Princeton University

JOINT ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  4:15 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Harmonic Maps to Metric Spaces
R. Schoen, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and Stanford Universities

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  6:00 P.M., WWH 513
Curvature of Piecewise Flat and Smooth Spaces
Jeff Cheeger, CIMS



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