Mathematical Physics Seminar Spring 2012

The Mathematical Physics Seminar meets in Vincent Hall Room 570 on Tuesdays at 12:20 PM .



Contact: robt@umn.edu
Date Speaker Title
Jan 31 Changzheng Qu Wave breaking, blow up and peakons for some Camassa-Holm equation type equations (abstract)
Feb 7 Will not meet
Feb 14 Eyal Subag A New Perspective on the İnönϋ-Wigner Contractions (abstract)
Feb 21 Dimitrios Mitsotakis Boussinesq systems: Theory and numerical analysis (abstract)
Feb 28 Jonas Karlsson Historical interlude: the vortex ring theory of the atom (abstract)
Mar 6 Denis Bashkirov Quantization of gauge systems and BRST formalism
Mar 13 SPRING BREAK
Mar 20 Will not meet
Mar 27 Rob Thompson Bäcklund Transformations
Apr 3 Willard Miller Structure theory for extended Kepler-Coulomb 3D quantum superintegrable systems (abstract)
Apr 10 Juha Pohjanpelto Pseudogroups, Moving Frames, and Reduction of Systems of Differential Equations (abstract)
Apr 17 Joe Benson Oral exam practice: invariant curve flows and moving frames
Apr 24 Will not meet
May 1 Will not meet
May 8 Lek-Heng Lim Incompressive fluid flows, time-dependent electric fields, and the top 100 Netflix movies (abstract)
Previous term: Fall 2011