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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, ����Beautiful physics from ordinary fluidsHousehold fluids are capable of illustrating sublime physics, using very simple setups. Students in

Event Description:Scot Elkington, LASP, ��ñ����Physical 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, ����Confessions 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, ����Nestmate 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