Current Trends in Mathematics
and its Applications

Conference in Honor of Avner Friedman

All conferences - 3-180 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8
1:00-1:30
Registration
3-176-Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Chair:  W. Littman
1:30-2:30
K. H. Hoffman
Mathematical Modeling of an Aptamer Based Biosensor
2:30-3:30
R. Brualdi
Matrices in Combinatorics with Applications
3:30-4:00
Break
3-176-Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
4:00-5:00
R. James
Reversibility of phase transformations and the search for new hybrid materials
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9
8:00-8:30
Registration
3-176-Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Chair:  F. Santosa
8:30-9:30
W. Pulleyblank
Proteins, petaflops and algorithms
9:30-10:30
H. Matano
Blow-up in some supercritical nonlinear heat equations
10:30-11:00
Break
3-176-Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
11:00-12:00
W. Newman
Earthquakes as a Nonlinear Dynamical Process
12:00-1:30
Lunch
Chair:  C. Dafermos
1:30-2:30
N. Kopell
Rhythms of the Nervous System: Mathematical Themes and Variations
2:30-3:30
D. Kinderlehrer
Diffusion mediated transport and the brownian motor
3:30-4:00
Break
3-176-Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
4:00-5:00
M. Gurtin

A nonequilibrium theory of epitaxial growth that accounts for surface stress and surface diffusion

Dinner at Bistro West, Humphrey Center (West Bank)
6:30-7:00
Wine and Cheese
7:00-9:00
Dinner
The dinner cost is $30.00 per person.  Please contact Harry for reservation by November 4th, 2002
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10
8:00-8:30
Registration
3-176-Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Chair:  N. Krylov
8:30-9:30
G. McDonald
Looking Backwards to the Future for Applied Mathematical Sciences
9:30-10:30
M. Steele
Minimal Spanning Trees and the Objective Method
10:30-11:00
Break
3-176-Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
11:00-12:00
G. Papanicolaou
Scaling limits for the random Schroedinger equation and applications to imaging