Colloquium-March 3, 2017

Friday, March 3, 2017 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: What does the average eigenvalue know about geometry, physics, or the complexity of a graph? Speaker: Evans M. Harrell (Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology) Abstract: Inverse spectral theory refers to the use of eigenvalues and related information to understand a...

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Colloquium-February 10, 2017

Friday, February 10, 2017 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Subcritical transition and stability in the 3D Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number Speaker: Jacob Bedrossian (Assistant Professor, University of Maryland) Abstract: We study small disturbances of the plane periodic Couette flow in the 3D Navier-Stokes equations in the high Reynolds number limit....

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