Previous Bath Mathematics Seminars


Summer 2003

2 May
Monique Dauge (Rennes) 
Singularities of Maxwell problems in the eddy current limit
9 May
Petr Zabreiko (Minsk, visiting Bristol) 
Poincare index for essential singularities of analytical functions
16 May
Johannes Kellendonk (Cardiff) 
K-theory and the Quantum Hall Effect
21 May
Paul Rabinowitz (Wisconsin) 
On some results of Moser and of Bangert
23 May
Simon Donaldson (Imperial) 
Toric geometry and fourth order PDE
30 May
Andrey Piatnitski (Narvik and Moscow) 
Averaging of random nonlinear nonstationary reaction-diffusion equations
6 June
Matt Keeling (Warwick) 
Modelling the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak
18 June
Stanislav Pohozaev (Steklov, Moscow) 
Blow-up to nonlinear hyperbolic problems

Spring 2003

31 January
Vitalii Liskevich (Bristol) 
Positive solutions to semilinear elliptic equations in unbounded domains
7 February
Leonid Volevich (Moscow) 
A modern presentation of Vishik-Lyusternik theory
14 February
L. Mahadevan (Cambridge) 
Geometry and physics of wrinkling
21 February
Jonathan Partington (Leeds) 
Convolutions and complexity
28 February
Andy White (Heriot-Watt) 
The adaptive dynamics of Lotka-Volterra systems
7 March
Yuri Safarov (Kings, London) 
Jensen's inequality
14 March
Carsten Carstensen (Vienna) 
Computational microstructures
21 March
Robin Knops (Heriot-Watt) 
Uniqueness in simple problems in nonlinear elasticity
28 March
Yann Brenier (Nice) 
Well-posedness of the 2D Euler equations in an infinitesimally thin layer

Winter 2002

27 September
Tony Carbery (Edinburgh) 
A generalisation of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
4 October
Jey Sivaloganathan (Bath) 
Infinitely many singular weak solutions in nonlinear elasticity
11 October
Constantin Teleman (Cambridge) 
Twisted K theory and the moduli space of bundles over a curve
18 October
Charlie Elliott (Sussex) 
Mathematical models for flux penetration in Type II superconductors
25 October
Dominic Joyce (Oxford) 
Special Lagrangian 3-folds in C^3 and special Lagrangian fibrations
1 November
David Acheson (Oxford) 
Some new twists on old problems in dynamics
15 November
Yujiro Kawamata (Tokyo) 
Minimal models of algebraic varieties and derived categories
22 November
Mike Powell (Cambridge) 
Least Frobenius norm updating for minimization without derivatives
29 November
Sasha Veselov (Loughborough) 
Solitons on graphs
6 December
Colin Sparrow (Warwick) 
Complicated dynamics arising in game theory
13 December
Marianna Csornyei (U.C.L.) 
Structure of null sets and related problems of geometric measure theory
20 December
Ian Melbourne (Surrey) 
A new test for chaos in deterministic nonlinear dynamical systems

Summer 2002

26 April
Francoise Tisseur (Manchester) 
Recent developments in quadratic eigenvalue problems
3 May
Ed Corrigan (York) 
Nonlinear boundary conditions and integrability in classical and quantum field theories
10 May
Alexander Movchan (Liverpool) 
Spectral problems of elasticity in discrete and continuous periodic structures
17 May
Elmer Rees (Edinburgh) 
Symmetric products and the Gelfand map
24 May
Ruth Curtain (Groningen) 
Reciprocal systems and infinite-dimensional systems
31 May
Jerry Griffiths (Loughborough) 
Classical neutrino fields in curved space-times
7 June
Richard Hall (York) 
The Gaussian curvature of minimal surfaces and Heinz's constant
21 June
Natasha Movchan (Liverpool) 
Two-dimensional phononic crystals and wave propagation in elastic structures
12 July
Sergei Naboko (St. Petersburg) 
Nevanlinna operator functions: boundary behaviour and its applications to perturbation theory

Spring 2002

1 February
Igor Skrypnik (Donetsk, Ukraine) 
Topological approach to fully nonlinear elliptic and parabolic problems
8 February
Karsten Matthies (Warwick) 
Exponential averaging in Hamiltonian evolution equations
15 February
Zvi Artstein (Weizmann Institute, Israel) 
Variational limits of the chattering type
22 February
Jacqueline Fleckinger (Toulouse) 
Maximum and antimaximum principle for some elliptic problems
1 March
Marco Marletta (Leicester) 
Spectral inclusion and spectral exactness for differential operators
8 March
Giovanni Alberti (Pisa) 
Sobolev maps with prescribed singularities
22 March
Rob Douglas (Aberystwyth) 
Applications of optimal mass transfer problems to meteorology

Winter 2001

28 September
Vladimir Maz'ya (Linkoping) 
Schrodinger and relativistic Schrodinger operators on energy space:
5 October
Alexander Sakhnovich (Glamorgan) 
Generalized Backlund-Darboux transforms
12 October
Gabriel Lord (Heriot-Watt) 
Epsilon-entropy of parabolic PDEs and their discretisations
19 October
Arieh Iserles (Cambridge) 
On the discretization of isospectral flows
26 October
Serguei Nazarov (St Petersburg and Westminster) 
Localization effects for eigenfunctions of spectral problems in thin
2 November
Konstantin Khanin (Heriot-Watt and Cambridge) 
to be announced
9 November
Graeme Wake (Cantebury and Oxford) 
Patterns are preserved in spite of scatter
16 November
Bernd Schroers (Heriot-Watt) 
Moduli spaces of flat connections and 3-dimensional quantum gravity
23 November
Andy King (Birmingham) 
Flow and reaction in solid oxide fuel cells
30 November
Yaroslav Kurylev (Loughborough) 
Geometric convergence and the Gelfand inverse problem
7 December
John Dold (UMIST) 
to be announced
14 December
Victor Yudovich (Rostov on Don, visiting Hull) 
Cosymmetry and its applications to dynamical systems
14 December
Peter Topping (Warwick) 
to be announced

Summer 2001

27 April
John Barrett (Imperial) 
Finite element approximation of surfactant spreading on a thin film
4 May
Christiane Tretter (Leicester) 
Spectral properties of block operator matrices and applications in mathematical physics
11 May
Norman Dancer (Sydney, visiting Cambridge) 
Applications of real analyticity to nonlinear elliptic problems
11 May
Neil Trudinger (Canberra, visiting Cambridge) 
Affine maximal hypersurfaces and the Bernstein problem
18 May
Brian Straughan (Durham) 
Anisotropic porous penetrative convection
25 May
Gero Friesecke (Warwick) 
A quantitative rigidity theorem for isometries in R^3: bending of paper and crystallization in atomic force models
1 June
Urmie Ray (Reims and MPIM Bonn) 
Moonshine and modular forms
8 June
Thanasis Fokas (Imperial) 
Differential forms, spectral theory and boundary value problems
11 June
Igor Protasov (Kiev) 
Symmetry and Colourings
20 June
Andrei Afendikov (Moscow) 
Numerical investigation of stability of pulse solutions on the real line via Evans function theory

Spring 2001

2 February
Stephen Morris (Berkeley, visiting Cambridge) 
Multiple timescales in a model of some geophysically-important
9 February
Wolfgang Schief (UNSW, Sydney) 
Solitonic constant pressure surfaces in classical hydrodynamics
16 February
Douglas Gregory (Manchester) 
The partially clamped plate under uniform loading; a classical unsolved problem
23 February
Ian McIntosh (York) 
Soap bubbles with the topology of a k-punctured sphere
2 March
Paul Glendinning (UMIST) 
A new route to chaos and a Renyi-Erdos problem
9 March
Tom Carroll (Cork) 
A tour of geometrical bounds for the fundamental frequency and related quantities
16 March
Andrey Pyatnitski (Moscow, visiting Warwick) 
Homogenization of random parabolic operators with lower order terms
23 March
John Maddocks (EPFL, Lausanne) 
Global curvature, DNA and ideal shapes of knots
30 March
Eric Cole (Leeds) 
The mathematical and numerical modelling of microwave semiconductor devices

Winter 2000

29 September
Alexander Shnirelman (Tel Aviv) 
On the L^2-instability of fluid flows
6 October
Lars Inge Hedberg (Linkoping) 
Nonlinear eigenvalues and stability of Sobolev spaces
6 October
Elias Wegert (Freiberg) 
Nonlinear singular integral equations and Riemann-Hilbert problems
13 October
Vesselin Petkov (Bordeaux) 
Estimates on the scattering determinant
20 October
Tilo Arens (Brunel) 
Acoustic and elastic wave scattering by rough surfaces
27 October
Dmitri Alekseevsky (Hull) 
Selfdual Yang-Mills connections over generalized hyperKahler manifolds
3 November
Douglas Gregory (Manchester) 
The partially clamped plate under uniform loading; a classical unsolved problem
10 November
Viet Ha Hoang (Cambridge) 
Periodic and stochastic homogenization and singular perturbations in perforated domains
17 November
Feodor Borodich (Liverpool) 
Fractal scaling in fracture mechanics
1 December
Khurram Wadee (Exeter) 
Homoclinic behaviour in a one-dimensional elastic buckling model
8 December
Eugene Ferapontov (Loughborough) 
Lie sphere geometry and commuting Schrodinger operators with magnetic fields
15 December
Jean-Marc Van den Broeck (East Anglia) 
Free surface flows with exponentially small waves

Summer 2000

5 May
Alexei Kovalev (Edinburgh) 
Twisted connected sums and special holonomy in dimension 7
12 May
Athanasis Fokas (Imperial) 
A new approach to PDE's
12 May
Michael Ruzhansky (Edinburgh) 
Regularity theory of Fourier integral operators with real and complex phases and applications to PDE
19 May
Alexander Grigoryan (Imperial) 
Heat kernels on Riemannian manifolds with ends
26 May
Ben Leimkuhler (Leicester) 
A time-reversible averaging integrator for multiple timescale dynamics
2 June
Erik Van Vleck (Visiting Sussex) 
Analysis and computation of travelling wave solutions of bistable differential difference equations
9 June
Stuart Hastings (Pittsburgh, visiting Oxford) 
Internal layers and chaos in a forced Duffing equation: a shooting approach

Spring 2000

4 February
Aidan Schofield (Bristol) 
Moduli spaces of vector bundles on subspaces
11 February
Frank Leppington (Imperial) 
Motion of vortices in compressible flow
18 February
John Norbury (Oxford) 
Pattern formation in reaction diffusion systems
18 February
Michael Levitin (Heriot-Watt) 
Commutators, spectral trace identities, and eigenvalue estimates
25 February
Arthur England (Nottingham) 
Finite elastic deformations of a fibre-reinforced shell, with applications to the mechanics of tyres
3 March
John Wood (Leeds) 
The geometry of harmonic morphisms
3 March
Adrian Constantin (Newcastle) 
Some aspects of a shallow water equation
10 March
John King (Nottingham) 
to be announced
17 March
Daniel Elton (Sussex) 
Some new results on zero energy bound states of the Pauli operator in R^3
24 March
Darren Crowdy (Imperial) 
Boundary value problems involving the biharmonic equation
31 March
Gunnar Traustason (Bath) 
Engel groups and related topics
31 March
Geoff Smith (Bath) 
How to detect that a Galois group is interesting
7 April
John Chapman (Keele) 
Energy paths in edge waves

Winter 1999

22 September
Mikhail Sytchev (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) 
Existence and relaxation results in special classes of deformations
24 September
Adolf Aslanyan (Moscow) 
Eigenvalue problems for shell structures
1 October
David Preiss (University College London) 
Lipschitz mappings with finitely many gradients
8 October
Simon Chandler-Wilde (Brunel) 
Scattering by infinite rough surfaces
15 October
Sebastian Reich (Surrey) 
Multi-symplectic methods in computational wave dynamics
22 October
Jonathan Evans (Bath) 
The Stefan problem with kinetic undercooling
29 October
Martin Speight (Leeds) 
$CP^1$ lumps on compact Riemann surfaces
5 November
Sergei Mikhailov (Southampton) 
Non-local fracture criteria and the problem of identification (interpolation) for non-linear functionals
12 November
Eugene Shargorodsky (Sussex) 
Semi-elliptic operators generated by vector fields
19 November
Angus Macintyre (Edinburgh) 
Generic automorphisms and Frobenius
26 November
David Stuart (Cambridge) 
Solitons in nonlinear wave equations on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
3 December
Richard James (Minneapolis) 
Magnetostriction of martensite: new materials that combine shape-memory and ferromagnetism
10 December
Beatrice Pelloni (Imperial College London) 
A spectral transform method for solving boundary-value problems for integrable PDEs
17 December
Andrew Bassom (Exeter) 
Application of uniform asymptotics to the second Painleve transcendent

Summer 1999

23 April
Jim Eells (Cambridge) 
Complex spaces and maps
30 April
Graeme Segal (Cambridge) 
The geometry of the non-linear Schrödinger equation
7 May
Tadeusz Iwaniec (Syracuse, visiting Oxford) 
Variational integrals in quasiconformal geometry
14 May
Alexander Pushnitski (Sussex) 
Krein's spectral shift function and its applications
21 May
Michael Vaughan-Lee (Oxford) 
Computing Burnside groups
28 May
Jon Chapman (Oxford) 
Some problems in diffraction
4 June
Dugald Duncan (Heriot-Watt) 
Numerical approximation of time domain scattering problems
7 June
Frances Kirwan (Oxford) 
Moment maps and symplectic reduction
7 June
Dusa McDuff (Stony Brook; Hardy Lecturer) 
A survey of symplectic topology

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Alastair King
Mathematical Sciences
University of Bath
Updated 22 Sep 03