Mathematics in the Geosciences, September 2001 - June, 2002

Organizers:

Andrei Gabrielov
Mathematics and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Purdue University
agabriel@math.purdue.edu
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~agabriel

Anatoli L. Levshin
Department of Physics
University of Colorado at Boulder
levshin@tinker.colorado.edu

William I. Newman
Departments of Earth and Space Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, and Mathematics
University of California, Los Angeles
win@ucla.edu

Special Event Schedule

Friday

Saturday

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 All talks are in Seminar Room Lind Hall 409 unless otherwise noted.
8:30 am	Coffee and Registration	Reception Area Lind Hall 400
9:00 am	Douglas N. Arnold, Robert Gulliver, and Anatoli L. Levshin	Welcome and Introduction
9:10 am	Leon Knopoff University of California, Los Angeles	Model of the Source for Large Earthquakes
9:50 am	Coffee Break	Lind Hall 400
10:10 am	Michael Ghil University of California, Los Angeles	Boolean Delay Equations as Formal Conceptual Models for Climate, Earthquakes, and Other Complexities
10:50 am	Mikhail Vishik University of Texas	Some old and more recent results of the mathematical theory of an ideal incompressible fluid Slides
11:30 am	Lunch Break
2:00 pm	George Molchan Russian Academy of Sciences	Multiplicative Random Cascades
2:40 pm	Vladimir G. Kossobokov Russian Academy of Sciences	Rise of activity, i.e. inverse cascading, at the approach of an extreme event Slides: html   pdf
3:20 pm	Coffee Break
3:40 pm	Anatoli L. Levshin University of Colorado at Boulder	Present-day surface wave seismology
4:20-4:50 pm	Edo Nyland University of Alberta	Mathematica Applications to a few of Academician Keilis-Borok's Favorite Problems
7:00 pm	Dinner	Restaurant to be announced
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6 All talks are in Seminar Room Lind Hall 409 unless otherwise noted.
8:30 am	Coffee	Lind Hall 400
9:00 am	Raymond Hide	The Spinning Earth
9:40 am	Coffee Break	Lind Hall 400
10:00 am	Informal discussion General remarks, Personal recollections and Reminiscences	Lind Hall 400 or 409, to be decided
12:00 pm	Lunch Break

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
(in addition to postdocs and long-term participants)

As of 10/5/2001

Name	Department	Affiliation
Nirendra N. Biswas	Geology and Geophysics	University of Alaska
Sergey Cherkis	Physics & Astronomy	University of California, Los Angeles
Susan Friedlander	Mathematics, Statistics & CSci.	University of Illinois, Chicago
Andrei Gabrielov	Mathematics	Purdue University
Michael Ghil	Atmospheric Sciences	University of California, Los Angeles
Agnes Helmstetter	Geosciences	University of Grenoble
Raymond Hide		MIT
Thomas H. Jordan	Earth Sciences	University of Southern California
Vladimir Keilis-Borok	Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics	University of California, Los Angeles
Leon Knopoff	Physics and Astronomy	University of California, Los Angeles
Vladimir Kossobokov	Int'l Inst. of Earthquake Pred. Theory & Math Geo.	Russian Academy of Sciences
Anatoli Levshin	Physics	University of Colorado at Boulder
George Molchan	Int'l Inst. of Earthquake Pred. Theory & Math Geo.	Russian Academy of Sciences
William Newman	Earth & Space Sciences	University of California, Los Angeles
Edo Nyland	Physics	University of Alberta
Sashirekha Shanmugavelu	Computer Engineering	University of Minnesota
Alexandr Shapoval	Int'l Inst. of Earthquake Pred. Theory & Math Geo.	Russian Academy of Science
Donald Turcotte	Geological Sciences	Cornell University
Mikhail Vishik	Mathematics	University of Texas
Tanya Levshina	Fams and Culstered Systems ISD/CD	FermiLab
llia Zaliapin	Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics	UCLA

Mathematics in the Geosciences, September 2001 - June 2002