Colloquium

  • Event Description:Peter D. Lax, Courant Institute of Mathematial Sciences, New York UniversityMathematics and physics are different enterprises; physics is looking for the laws of nature, mathematics is trying to invent the structures and prove the
  • Event Description:Leslie Greengard, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Ney York University100 years of electromagnetic waves: physics, simulation, and designWe will review the analytic and computational foundations of Green’s function based
  • Event Description:Ken Miller, Department of Mathematics, Wichita State UniversitySteady axisymmetric vortex flowsSteady axisymmetric vortex flows both with and without swirl will be discussed. Existence theorems for the non-linear partial
  • Event Description:Jean Hertzberg, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado BoulderBeautiful physics from ordinary fluidsHousehold fluids are capable of illustrating sublime physics, using very simple setups. Students in
  • Event Description:Scot Elkington, LASP, University of Colorado BoulderPhysical Models of the Earth’s space radiation environmentThe outer zone of the Van Allen radiation belts consists of highly energetic (MeV) electrons trapped in electromagnetic
  • Event Description:David Kassoy, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado BoulderConfessions of a Master Perturbator: a Matter of ScalesImagine a physical system in which phenomena occur on diverse length and time scales
  • Event Description:Larry Hunter, Center for Computational Parmacology, University of Colorado Health Sciences CenterStaying at the forefront of biomedical knowledge: text mining and semantic data integrationThe advent of “high-throughput†molecular
  • Event Description:Tom Bogdan, Space Environment Center, NOAAA tale of three waves: coupled wave equations used in the ‘sounding’ of magnetized atmospheresPropagating and standing waves are especially useful for the remote sensing of distant and
  • Event Description:Mike Breed, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado BoulderNestmate recognition and perceptual dimensions in honey beesHoney bees discriminate nestmates from non-nestmates using pheromonal signals.
  • Event Description:John Boyd, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science, University of MichiganExponentially accurate Rung-free approximation from samples on an evenly-spaced grid for non-periodic functionsApproximating a function from its
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