Division of Applied Mathematics

Seminars for Sep 15 - Sep 19, 1997

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• Monday, September 15, 1997
  
  

  Dissertation Defense, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University

  Speaker:	Hsuan-Wen Su, Brown University, Division of Applied Mathematics
  Title:	Existence of Periodic Solutions of Finite Regularity for Nonlinear Klein-Gordon Equation
  Time/Place:	1:30 p.m., 182 George Street, Room 110

  Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems Seminar

  Speaker:	John Mallet-Paret, Brown University, Division of Applied Mathematics
  Title:	Recent Results in Lattice Differential Equations
  Time/Place:	4:00 p.m., B&H 155

• Wednesday, September 17, 1997
  
  

  Brown Analysis Seminar

  Speaker:	Kate Okikiolu, University of California at San Diego, MIT
  Title:	High Frequency Cut-Offs, Trace Formulas and Geometry
  Time/Place:	4:15 p.m., Kassar 105   (Coffee at 3:45 p.m.)

• Thursday, September 18, 1997
  
  

  Inaugural Lecture in the 1997-98 Critical Studies of Science Series

  Speaker:	Theodore Porter, Director of the Center for the Cultural Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of California, Los Angles
  Title:	Report from the "Science Wars"; Understanding Objectivity as Cultural Value and Resource
  Biography:	Professor Porter is Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Cultural Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life, 1995, Princeton University Press
  Time/Place:	12:00 Noon, B&H 158

  Abstract:   How are we to account for the current prestige and power of quantitative methods? Drawing on a wide range of examples from the laboratory, accounting, insurance, and civil engineering, Porter argues that it is wrong to interpret the drive for quantitative rigor as inherent in the activity of science. Instead, quantification grows from attempts to develop a strategy of impersonality in response to pressures from the outside.

  This lecture is supported by the University Faculty Lectureship Committee and is being co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology, Mathematics, History, and Bio Med Gerontology, the Division of Applied Math and the Center for Statistical Sciences.

  The second lecture in the Critical Studies of Science Series will be given on October 20, 1997, by Shelly Krimsky, professor of Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University. Professor Krimsky will speak on "The Science/Policy Dialectic in the Debates About Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals."

  Applied Mathematics Colloquium

  Speaker:	Zvi Artstein, Weizmann Institute
  Title:	Some Applications of Young Measures
  Time/Place:	4:30 p.m., B&H 158

  Abstract:   Some new applications (along with the necessary background), of Young measures will be displayed. The applications are related to differential equations, control and optimization and probability.

• Friday, September 19, 1997
  
  

  PDE Seminar

  Speaker:	Shoshana Kamin, Tel Aviv University
  Title:	Metastable Behavior of Solutions of Burgers Type of Equations
  Time/Place:	3:00 p.m., Kassar 105

  Department of Mathematics Colloquium

  Speaker:	John Klein, Brown University
  Title:	Embeddings and Fiberwise Homotopy Theory
  Time/Place:	4:30 p.m., Kassar 105

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