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Nonlinearity in Amsterdam


Nonlinearity in Amsterdam is a seminar on nonlinear phenomena in the mathematical description and analysis of problems in science and engineering. It aims to bring together fields such as nonlinear partial differential equations, dynamical systems and mathematical modeling.

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

15.00-15.45 Theodore Kolokolnikov (Brussel)
Localized patterns and their stability in the Brusselator Model
16.15-17.00 Alexander Morozov (Leiden)
Self-sustaining mechanism of visco-elastic turbulence

Tuesday, March 8, 2005

15.00-15.45 Leo Maas (NIOZ, Texel)
Wave attractors
16.15-17.00 Huib de Swart (IMAU, Utrecht)
Dynamics of tides and sandbanks near Wadden islands

Wednesday, March 2, 2005

15.00-15.45 Felix Otto (Bonn)
Metastable states in micromagnetics: an example
16.15-17.00 Mark Peletier (Eindhoven)
Partial localization and the stability of biological membranes

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

14.30-15.15 Luca Lorenzi (Parma)
Stability and bifurcation results in a free boundary problem from combustion theory
15.30-16.15 Hil Meijer (Utrecht)
Explicit computation of normal forms with applications to maps

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

14.00-14.45 Gianne Derks (Surrey)
A numerical framework to study instability and edge bifurcations of solitary waves
15.00-15.45 Tasso Kaper (Boston)
Nonlinear dynamics of gas bubbles in Newtonian liquids
16.00-16.45 Keith Promislow (Michigan)
Hysteresis, bifurcation, and slow transients in PEM fuel cell ignition

Friday, November 26, 2004 (organised joint with the University of Groningen and Utrecht University)

10.00-10.50 Jun Hoo (Groningen)
Nearly-integrable perturbation of the Lagrange top: applications of KAM theory
11.00-11.50 Odo Diekmann (Utrecht)
Dynamics of semelparous populations
13.30-14.20 Hans Duistermaat (Utrecht)
Nearly falling flat rolling discs
14.30-15.20 Robbert Fokkink (Delft)
Unfolding algebraic dynamical systems

Monday, October 25, 2004

15.15-16.00 Jan Bouwe van den Berg (VU)
Singularities in the harmonic map heat flow
16.15-17.00 Jason Frank (CWI)
Symplectic integration of atmospheric fluid dynamics

Friday, November 21, 2003 (organised joint with the University of Groningen and Utrecht University)

10.00-10.50 Rob Vandervorst (Amsterdam)
Parabolic PDE's and braids
11.00-11.50 Konstantin Mischaikow (Atlanta)
The Conley Index for Fast-Slow Systems
13.30-14.20 Florian Wagener (Amsterdam)
In search of a unifying KAM theorem
14.30-15.20 Henk Broer (Groningen)
Geometric aspects of resonance

Thursday, October 16, 2003

15.15-16.00 Georg Prokert (Eindhoven)
On Stokes flow in the presence of a surfactant
16.15-17.00 Wolf-Patrick Duell (Bonn)
On a pseudo-parabolic PDE modelling penetration of liquids into polymers

Thursday, October 8, 2003

15.30-16.15 Konstantin Mischaikow (Atlanta)
Computational Topology, Spatial-temporal Chaos, and the Formation of Patterns

Thursday, September 18, 2003

16.15-17.00 Jeroen Lamb (London)
Heteroclinic cycle bifurcations near Hopf-zero bifurcation in 3D reversible vector fields.

Wednesday, May 21, 2003

13.30-14.00 Huib de Swart (Utrecht)
Tide-topography Interaction and Morphologic Pattern Formation
14.00-14.30 David Iron (Amsterdam)
Destabilization of Fronts in a Class of Bi-Stable Systems
14.30-14.50 Jan Bouwe van den Berg (Amsterdam)
Fourth Order Differential Equations Via Braids
15.15-15.45 Stephan van Gils (Enschede)
Travelling Waves in a Singularly Perturbed Sine-Gordon Equation
15.45-16.15 Arjen Doelman (Amsterdam)
A Weakly Nonlinear Approach to Complex Tidal Dynamics
16.30-17.00 Vivi Rottschafer (Leiden)
Stability Analysis of External Cavity Modes in the Lang-Kobayashi Equations
17.00-17.30 Guido Terra (Amsterdam)
Nonlinear Response of a Cooscillating Tidal Basin; Theory and Laboratory Experiments

Wednesday, December 11, 2002

14.30-15.15 Jose Tello (Amsterdam)
Mathematical Analysis of a problem arising in chemotaxis
15.30-16.15 Todd Young (Athens, Ohio)
Separatrix Crossing in Hamiltonian Systems

Wednesday, October 30, 2002

13.30-14.15 Jean Roberts (Inria-Rocquencourt)
Numerical modelling of flow in porous media with faults
14.30-15.15 Jerome Jaffre (Inria-Rocquencourt)
On the upstream mobility flux for multiphase flow in porous media
15.30-16.15 Ale Jan Homburg (Amsterdam)
Multiple homoclinic orbits in conservative and reversible systems

Monday, May 27, 2002

14.00-14.45 Ignacio Guerra (Amsterdam)
Global and exploding solutions for a nonlocal parabolic-elliptic system
15.00-15.45 Vivi Rottschafer (Leiden)
Large time behaviour of solutions of the Swift-Hohenberg equation
16.00-16.45 Piotr Biler (Wroclaw)
Solutions of parabolic-elliptic systems in Morrey spaces

Friday, March 1, 2002

13.30-14.15 Ruud Schotting (Delft)
Upscaling of high-concentration-gradient dispersion in heterogeneous porous media: the homogenization approach
14.30-15.15 Geertje Hek (Amsterdam)
Singular perturbations and geometry: applications in biology and optics
15.30-16.15 Joost Hulshof (Amsterdam)
Flame fronts in dusty gaseous mixtures

Wednesday, October 24, 2001

14.30-15.15 Juergen Knobloch (Ilmenau)
Dynamics near degenerate homoclinic orbits
15.30-16.15 Vivi Rottschafer (Leiden)
Multi-bump blowup solutions in the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation near critical dimension

Wednesday, June 11, 2001

13.30-14.15 Rachel Kuske ( Minneapolis)
Modulation equations for stochastic delay-differential equations
14.30-15.15 Ale Jan Homburg (Amsterdam)
Birkhoff averages and bifurcations
15.30-16.15 Don Aronson (Minneapolis)
Focusing of non-circular self-similar shock waves

Monday, June 1, 2001

14.00-15.00 Pavel Rodin (St. Petersburg/Amsterdam/Berlin)
Pattern formation in semiconductor devices
15.15-16.15 Felix Otto (Bonn)
Density driven fingering
16.30-17.30 Sascha Hilgenfeldt (Twente)
Liquid drainage and bubble coarsening in a foam: how to make a better beer

Friday, March 23, 2001

13.30-14.15 Tasso Kaper (Boston)
Time-periodic front dynamics in a model of Proteus mirabilis colonies
14.30-15.15 Hans Westerhoff (Amsterdam)
The control of 'self' organization; yeast glycolytic oscillations
15.30-16.15 Michel Langlais (Bordeaux)
Epidemic models in heterogeneous spatial domains

Thursday, January 18, 2001

13.30-14.15 Floris Takens (Groningen)
Reconstruction for endomorphisms
14.30-15.15 Odo Diekmann (Utrecht)
Quasilinear population models
15.30-16.15 Sigurd Angenent (Madison, Leiden)
The topology of closed geodesics on surfaces