From: TIHOR@ACFCLUSTER.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor 212 998 3052)
Subject: CIMS weekly Bulletin 9/30/92
Organization: New York University
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:15:37 GMT

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

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: *11:00 A.M., WWH 1302 Pseudoholomorphic Curves in
Symplectized Contact Manifolds and the Weinstein Conjecture in Dimension
Three Helmut Hofer, Bochum *Please note the time change to 11 A.M.

PROBABILITY/STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302 Large
Deviations and Convex Analysis Dimitry Ioffe (CIMS Visiting Member)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302 Variational Approach to Superlinear
Elliptic Systems D.G. De Figueiredo, University Campinas/Brazil and Rutgers
University

NONLINEAR WAVES SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 813 Stability of Solutions
to the Destabilized Hopf Equation Brian Hayes, CIMS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2               *PARCON '92 SYMPOSIUM, WWH 109

9:30 A.M.	Opening Remarks
	Abraham Peled, Vice President, Systems and Software, IBM
	Research Division

9:45 A.M.	Coping with Asynchrony in Parallel Systems
	Michael O. Rabin, T.J. Watson Sr. Professor of Computer Science,
	Harvard University
10:30 A.M.	Coffee Break

11:00 A.M.	On the Role of Randomness in the Design of Communication
Networks
	F. Thomson Leighton, Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts
	Institute of Technology

11:45 A.M.	The Systematic Design of Parallel Programs
	K. Mani Chandy, Professor of Computer Science, California
	Institute of Technology
12:30 P.M.	Break

2:00 P.M.	Opening Remarks
	Peter Lax, Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of
	Mathematical Sciences

2:15 P.M.	Multicomputer Architecture and Programming
	Charles L. Seitz, Professor of Computer Science, California
	Institute of Technology

3:00 P.M.	The Network Architecture of the Connection Machine CM-5
	Charles E. Leiserson, Professor of Computer Science and
	Engineering, Massachusetts
	Institute of Technology
4:00 P.M.	Reception
*Symposium on New Directions in Parallel and Concurrent Computing. If room
capacity proves inadequate, a decision will be made shortly before the
symposium begins to move to another location.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 2 (Continued)

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302 Quantum Wire Confinement
Computed With Newton's Method T. Kerkhoven, University of Illinois, U.C.

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: *1:30 P.M., WWH 1302 ATTENTION: A Model Neural
Network for the Searchlight Hypothesis Frank Hoppensteadt, Dept. of
Mathematics, Michigan State University *Please note the unusual time.

JOINT ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:00 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302 Optimal Uniform
Convexity for cp and Hypercontractivity for Fermi Fields Elliot Lieb,
Princeton University

JOINT ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 4:15 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302 Bound States for
Hyperbolic Systems Peter Sarnak, Princeton University

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1302 Geometric Models of Crystal
Growth Jean Taylor, Rutgers University

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 1013 Effect of
Nonaxisymmetric Magnetic Perturbations on Divertor Heat Load Bas Braams,
CIMS

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

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

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302 TBA Alain Pumir, ENS, Ecole
Normale 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 _-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 1013 Alpha Particle Driven
Bootstrap Current Choong-Seock Chang (CIMS)

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

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19

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

SPECIAL EVENTS

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY'S FOURTH ANNUAL COMPUTER FAIR: 10:00 A.M. - 8:00 P.M.,
Loeb Student Center, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium All members of the NYU
community are welcome -- students, faculty,
administrators, and staff. Computer Fair IV is sponsored
by the new NYU Computer Store, NYU's Academic Computing Facility, and the
NYU Purchasing Services Division.



ACADEMIC COMPUTING FACILITY

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6

ACADEMIC COMPUTING FACILITY SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 313 Topics in UNIX:
Part II 
Gary Rosenblum All are welcome, although attendees are expected to have
taken an
ACF introductory tutorial in UNIX. For further information,
contact Frank LoPresti at 998-3398.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13

ACADEMIC COMPUTING FACILITY SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 313 Topics in VMS: Part
I -- After You Log In: Messages, BBoards, Mail and News Stephen Tihor All
are welcome, although attendees are expected to have taken an
ACF introductory tutorial in VMS. For further information,
contact Frank LoPresti at 998-3398.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15

ACADEMIC COMPUTING FACILITY SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 313 Network Services:
Part I -- Internet Services Jeffrey Bary All are welcome. For further
information, contact Frank
LoPresti at 998-3398.





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