Colorado State University  Mathematical
Colloquium

Bifurcations, Crossover Scaling, and Dynamics in nonconvex variational problems

By  Shankar Venkataramani
From  Department of Mathematics
University of Arizona
When  October 30, 2008
12:00 noon
Where  Forestry 107
Abstract  Using examples, I will discuss some of the key issues in the analysis of variational problems with multiple small scales. The talk will be expository in nature and will be at a level accessible to a curious undergraduate. It will be more about open questions than known answers.
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The Colloquium counts as Seminar Credit for Mathematics Students.