[grads] [Sem-coll] AM Dept Seminar & Colloquium this Week

[Joe Millham]

Greetings all,
Please join us this week for the Applied Mathematics Department's Colloquium
and Seminar.  Refreshments are served at 4:30 pm and the lecture runs from
4:40 to 5:45 pm.  

1. Monday, September 24, 2007 - Peter Kritzer, of the University of
Salzburg, Austria presents "Sequences, Subsequences, and Discrepancy" in
room E1 106

2. Thursday, September 27, 2007 - Jeffrey Weiss, of the University of
Colorado, Boulder presents "Coherent Structures in Geophysical Turbulence"
in room E1 123

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Abstracts

1. Monday, September 24, 2007 - Peter Kritzer, of the University of
Salzburg, Austria presents "Sequences, Subsequences, and Discrepancy" in
room E1 106

Abstract: In this talk I will first give a short introduction to some basic
ideas of the theory of uniform distribution modulo one. In the second part
of the talk I am going to discuss some nice results from joint work with R.
Hofer, G. Larcher, and F. Pillichshammer (all University of Linz)


2. Thursday, September 27, 2007 - Jeffrey Weiss, of the University of
Colorado, Boulder presents "Coherent Structures in Geophysical Turbulence"
in room E1 123

Abstract: Large scale atmospheric and oceanic flows are extremely turbulent
and are strongly influenced by rapid rotation and strong stable
stratification. Such flows spontaneously self-organize into coherent
structures such as jets and vortices. In this talk I will review recent work
on structures in turbulence from several perspectives: structures in
turbulence theory, the dynamics and evolution of structures, their impact on
chemical reactions, and their role in weather forecasting.

Thank you and see you there, 

Joe Millham
Administrative Assistant
Applied Mathematics Department
312.567.8984
jmillham at iit.edu 

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