The IMA Postdoc Seminar is intended for expository talks from the visitors on their current research interests. The organizers are Brian DiDonna and Tim Garoni. It meets in 409 Lind Hall on Tuesdays at 11:15 on weeks when there is no IMA special program. If you are interested in giving a talk please contact Brian at:

didonna@ima.umn.edu

FALL 2004 SCHEDULE
date	speaker	affiliation	title
October 5	Stephen Watson	Northwestern University	"Coursening Dynamics of the Convective Cahn-Hilliard Equation"
October 12	Douglas Arnold Hans Othmer George Sell	IMA,UMN	Panel discussion on writing grant applications
October 19	Xiaobing Feng	The University of Tennessee	"The Least Gradient Flow, the Total Variation Flow, and the Inverse Mean Curvature Flow: Applications, Theory, and Numerical Approximations"
October 26	no seminar, Singularities in Materials workshop
November 2	Richard McGehee	UMN	"Some Mathematical Aspects of Cluster Analysis"
November 9	Peter Sternberg	Indiana University	"Elliptic Variational Problems on Constricted Networks with Applications to Ginzburg-Landau Theory"
November 16	Matthias Kurzke	IMA	"Existence of multiply connected surfaces minimizing parametric integrals"
November 23	no seminar
November 30	Guillermo Sapiro	UMN	"Comparing Point Clouds"
December 7	Gerard Awanou	IMA	"A family of stable rectangular mixed finite elements for plane elasticity"
WINTER 2005 SCHEDULE
date	speaker	affiliation	title
January 18	Fulvio Bisi	Università di Pavia	"Role and evidence of order reconstruction in nematic liquid crystal confined systems"
January 25	Brian DiDonna	IMA	"Elasticity of inhomogeneous materials: relaxing the affine assumption."
February 1	Hailiang Liu	Iowa State University	"Wave breaking in a class of nonlocal dispersive wave equations."
February 8	no seminar, Composites: Where Mathematics Meets Industry workshop
February 15	no seminar
February 22	Jim Evans	Iowa State University	"Atomistic and Continuum Modeling Strategies for Homoepitaxial Thin Film Growth"
March 1	Ryan S. Elliott	UMN	"Bifurcation and Stability of Multilattices with Applications to Martensitic Transformations in Shape Memory Alloys"
March 8	J. Doug Wright	UMN	"Higher Order Corrections to the KdV Approximation for Water Waves "
March 15	no seminar, Spring Break
March 22	Jian Ping Gong	Hokkaido University	"Hydrogels with excellent mechanical performance: An approach to understand the secret of cartilages"
March 29	no seminar, New Paradigms in Computation workshop
SPRING 2005 SCHEDULE
date	speaker	affiliation	title
April 6	Viet Ha Hoang	University of Cambridge	"High-dimensional Finite Elements for Elliptic Problems with Multiple Scales"
April 12	no seminar, Atomic Motion to Macroscopic Models: The Problem of Disparate Temporal and Spatial Scales in Matter workshop
April 19	Richard Kollar	IMA	"Linear stability of stratified fluids and the associated nonlinear eigenvalue problem"
April 26	Dan Kushnir	Weizmann Institute	"Fast Multi-Scale Clustering and Manifold Identification in 2D and 3D"
May 3	no seminar, Experiments in Physical Biology I workshop
May 10	Julie Mitchell	University of Wisconsin	"Tutorial on basics of proteins"
May 17	no seminar, Experiments in Physical Biology II workshop
May 24	no seminar, Modeling the Dynamics of Liquid Crystal Elastomers workshop
May 31	Peter Philip	IMA	"A Finite Volume Scheme for Transient Nonlocal Conductive-Radiative Heat Transfer, Part 1: Formulation and Discrete Maximum Principle"
June 7	no seminar
June 14	Sean Han	IMA	" Econometric Inference of Rental Company's Preference"
June 20	Peter Philip	IMA	"A Finite Volume Scheme for Transient Nonlocal Conductive-Radiative Heat Transfer, Part 2: Convergence to the Weak Solution"
June 21	Frederic Legoll	IMA	" Theoretical and numerical comparison of some sampling methods for molecular dynamics"

Archive of the 2003-4 IMA Postdoc Seminar.

Archive of the 2002-3 IMA Brown Bag Seminar.
Archive of the 2003-4 IMA Brown Bag Seminar.