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Spring Term 2005

26 January Dr Yuriy Semenov (Ukraine)
Complex variable approach for water entry problems
2 February Professor Björn Sandstede (Surrey)
Dynamics of coherent structures in oscillatory media
9 February Dr Takuji Ishikawa (Cambridge)
An Active Suspension (a suspension of micro-organisms)
23 February
Pope C1
Dr Tiina Roose (Oxford)
Tissue mechanics of tumour growth and frog development
2 March
Pope C1
Professor Andrew Stuart (Warwick)
Homogenization for inertial particles

Summer Term 2005

Friday 8 April
Pope C2
11am
Professor Avner Friedman (Ohio State)
Cancer model with non-spherical free boundary (abstract).
20 April Professor Alan Champneys (Bristol)
Rock, rattle and slide: dynamics of nonsmooth systems. 
27 April
4 May Professor Roy Pike (King's College)
Can you hear the shape of the vocal tract?
11 May Dr Rich Kerswell (Bristol)
Travelling waves in pipe flow

Autumn Term 2004

29 September   Dr Sam Howison (Oxford)
Continuously and discretely sampled stopping problems.
6 October Professor Graeme Hocking (Murdoch)
Unsteady selective withdrawal.  
13 October   Second year talks
18 October  Dr JF Williams (Leiden)
Adaptive numerical methods for PDEs with singularities
 
3 November   Professor Ben Leimkuhler (Leicester)
Dynamical thermostats for molecular simulation.  
17 November   Andrew Cliffe
Computation of Periodic Orbits for the Navier-Stokes Equations.
 
24 November Professor David Broomhead (UMIST)
Pulse trains and the Cable Equation
 
1 December   Dr. Simon Malham (Heriot Watt)
Numerical evaluation of the Evans function by Magnus integration.  
8 December   Dr Niels Sondergaard (University of Lund, Sweden)
Closed Geodesics on Shells
 

Summer Term 2004

28 April   Dr Rich Hewitt (Manchester)  
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5 May   Gregor Tanner (Nottingham)  
Wave chaos in elasticity.  
12 May   Dr David Porter (Reading)  
Wave scattering by an ice sheet of variable thickness  
18 May   Professor John Buckmaster (Pope C15) (Illinois)  
The development of tribrachial structures in smolder waves and the response of a burning heterogeneous propellant to acoustic pressure disturbances.  
19 May   Professor Andy Bernoff (Pope C15) (Harvey Mudd) 
Stability and dynamics of self-similarity in evolution equations  
21 July   Professor Tony Humphries (Pope committee room) 11.30am (McGill)  
Travelling waves and functional differential equations with advances and delays.  

Spring Term 2004

21 January   Professor Mal Teich (Boston)  
Entangled-Photon Optical Coherence Tomography  
4 February   Dr. Robb MacDonald (time to be arranged) (UCL)  
Vortices and Gaps  
11 February   Professor Seth Lichter (North Western)  
How, where and why the no-slip condition fails
18 February   LMS meeting at Loughborough: Mathematics in Medicine and Biology (Neuroscience)  
 
25 February   Professor Michael Mackey (McGill)  
Mathematical models of gene regulation  
3 March   Professor Jens Eggers (Bristol)  
Stability of a moving contact line.  
10 March   Professor Charlie Elliott (in room Pope-A1) (Sussex)  
Fully discrete second order splitting methods for evolutionary fourth order problems with applications to Surface Diffusion.  
17 March   Dr. Chris Howls (Southampton)  
Ringing Black Holes.  

Autumn Term 2003

1 October   Short talks by 2nd year research students  
 
8 October   Dr. Mark Kelmanson (Leeds)  
Why weeny water waves weakly wobble, wane, wander & wiggle whilst whirling.  
15 October   No Seminar  
22 October   Dr. Florian Theil (Warwick)  
Single-slip elastoplastic microstructures.  
29 October   Professor Andreas Acrivos (City University New York)  
The Rheology of Concentrated Suspensions; Variations on a Theme by Albert Einstein.  
5 November   Dr. Jonathan Healey (Keele)  
Some strange instabilities of the rotating disc boundary layer.  
12 November   Dr. Rob Hinch (Oxford)  
Calcium sparks in cardiac myocytes and stochastic phase plane analysis. 
19 November   Dr. Oliver Harlen (Leeds)  
Bubble growth in polymeric foams.  
26 November   Professor Mark Roberts (Surrey)  
Bifurcations of relative equilibria and periodic orbits of molecular and gravitational N-body problems.  
3 December   No seminar  
 
10 December   Dr. Shailesh Naire (Nottingham)  
Models for gravitationally driven free film flows  

Summer Term 2003

23 April   Professor Alistair Fitt (Southampton)  
The fluid and solid mechanics of the human eye.  
30 April   Dr.Jean-Luc Thiffeault (Imperial) to be held in room C16  
Chaotic Mixing and Large-scale Patterns.  
7 May   Dr. Peter Spelt (Nottingham)  
Non-Newtonian fluid flow through fibrous media.  
14 May   Dr. Jon Flitton (Nottingham)  
Inertia dominated shallow water flows.  
2 June   Professor Steve Davis (North Western) CANCELLED  
Kinetically controlled growth and quantum dots (4.30pm in Pope C15)  
4 June   Professor Omar Matar (Imperial)  
Pattern formation in surfactant-covered thin liquid films.  
11 June   Professor John Bush (M.I.T.)  
New structures in free surface flows.  
16 July   Professor Vladislav Pukhnachov (Novosibirsk) to be held in room C15  
Approximate models of viscous flows with free boundaries and their justification.  

Spring Term 2003

29 January  Professor Henrik Jensen (Imperial) 
Tangle Nature: A statistical mechanics model of evolutionary ecology. Co-evolution, intermittency, adaptation. 
5 February  Dr. Milos Revallo (Comenius, Slovakia) 
Stability of convection in a rotating annulus with magnetic field. (This seminar takes place at 4.00pm in C14)  
12 February  Dr. Helen Wilson (Leeds)  
The effect of rough particles on viscous flows.  
19 February  Dr. Chris Leech (U.M.I.S.T.)  
The modelling of large synthetic fibre ropes and their splices.  
26 February  Professor John Hinch (Cambridge)  
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a Hele-Shaw cell.  
5 March  Professor Omar Matar POSTPONED (Imperial)  
Pattern formation in surfactant-covered thin liquid films.  
12 March  Professor Marek Elzanowski (Portland State University)  
Intrinsic evolution of defects in solids: a two-dimensional model.  
19 March  Dr. Karen Page (U.C.L.) CANCELLED  
Modelling tumour dormancy. 

Autumn Term 2002

2 October  Short talks by second year research students 
9 October  No seminar 
16 October  Dr. Anne Juel (Manchester) 
Experimental surprises in viscous fingering. 
23 October  Dr. Jim Oliver (Nottingham) 
Shallow water entry 
30 October  Professor Dirk Drasdo (Max Planck Institute) 
Towards a quantitative model of growing tumors in spheroids and monolayers: cells as biophysical objects and a first step beyond.  
6 November  Dr. Jan Bouwe van den Berg (Nottingham) 
Formal asymptotics of bubbling in the harmonic map heat flow. 
13 November  Dr. Chris Leech (UMIST) 
Analysis and modelling of synthetic fibre ropes 
20 November  Dr. Richard Craster (Imperial College);
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27 November  Dr. Terry Shepherd (Qinetiq) 
Photons and Photoelectrons - Classical and Quantum Mechanical Approaches 
4 December  Professor Bob Kerr (Warwick) 
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11 December   Dr. Gary Hunt (Imperial College) 
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Summer Term 2002

24 April  Professor Ernie Tuck (Adelaide) 
The role of inertia in extensional fall of a viscous drop.
1 May  Professor Tony Spencer (Nottingham) 
A continuum theory for granular materials and applications to vibrating granular layers.  
8 May   Professor Robert Mackay (Warwick) 
Hamiltonian slow manifolds.  
15 May  Professor Tom Pence (Michigan State/Glasgow) 
A multifield description for Martensitic phase transformation.  

Spring Term 2002

30 January  Dr Jey Sivaloganathan (Bath) 
The Scope of Variational Models in Nonlinear Elasticity
6 February  Professor Richard Braun (University of Delaware / Southampton) 
This seminar will be at 3.30pm
A Model for Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth  
13 February  Dr Keith Hopcraft (Nottingham) 
Levy Flights and other Motors of Complex Systems  
20 February  Professor Jon Chapman (Oxford) 
Exponential Asymptotics "Beyond all Orders" and Linear and Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems.  
27 February  Professor Mike Siegel (Oxford) 
Evolution of Material Surfaces for Highly Anisotropic Surface Energy  
6 March  Professor Andy King (Birmingham) 
The Genesis of some Free Surface Flows
13 March   Professor Adam Wheeler (Southampton) 
The Dynamics of a Nematics Liquid Crystal in a Shear Flow 
20 March   Dr Jonathan Mestel (Imperial)  
The Connections between Haemodynamics and the Magnetosphere 

Autumn Term 2001

3 October  Short Talks by Second Year Research Students  
10 October  Dr Graham Sander (Loughborough) 
Mathematical Modelling of Soil Erosion  
17 October  Nonlinear Network Day  
Dr Nico Gray (Manchester) 
Pattern Formation in Rapid Granular Flows  
(This seminar will be in A13, Pope.)
24 October  Professor Roger Kamm (MIT) 
Some Intriguing Problems in Molecular and Cellular Mechanics  
(This seminar will be in C14, Pope.)
31 October  Dr Shailesh Naire (Nottingham) 
Gravitationally-Driven Drainage of Thin Films
POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT SEMESTER
7 November   Professor Andrew Stuart (Warwick) 
Macroscopic Stochastic Models From Deterministic Dynamics 
14 November   Dr Stephen Cox (Nottingham)  
Localisation of Patterns 
INAUGURAL LECTURE - Professor EAG Armour  
From Planets to Positrons, a Mathematically Guided Tour 
(This lecture will be in C16, Pope at 4.30pm)
21 November   Professor David Needham (Reading) 
(This seminar will be at 4pm.)
Travelling waves in a non-Lipschitz Reaction-Diffusion system 
28 November   Professor Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan (Cambridge) 
Wrinkling 

Summer Term 2001

25 April  Dr Martin Sieber (Bristol) 
Correlations between periodic orbits and spectral statistics 
2 May  Dr Greg Chini (University of New Hampshire) 
Resonant Langmuir cell - internal wave interaction 
9 May  Professor Yan Fyodorov (Brunel) 
Resonances in quantum chaotic scattering: random matrix approach 
16 May  Half-day meeting: mathematical modelling in medicine & biology  
6 June  Dr Oliver Kerr (City University) 
Double-diffusive convection driven by horizontal gradients 
13 June   Dr David Schley (Surrey) 
Alternative models for understanding slug-biocontrol 
Note: This seminar will take place in Pope room C14
27 June   Dr Rodney Weber (University of New South Wales) 
Modelling bushfires and combustion 
4 July   Dr Jose Tello del Castillo (Uni. Complutense de Madrid) 
A mathematical model of chemotaxis 

Spring Term 2001

31 January  Dr Stephen Cowley (Cambridge) 
Whither boundary-layer theory? 
14 February  Dr David Gavaghan (Oxford) 
Numerical modelling of electrochemical biosensors 
21 February  Dr Hilary Ockendon (Oxford) 
Some problems from the textile Industry 
28 February  Dr Jonathan Dawes (Cambridge) 
Rotating Rayleigh-Benard convection in a low Prandtl number fluid 
7 March  Professor Howard Stone (Harvard) 
Some coating flows: I. Thin films inside a rotating cylinder and II. Corners in thin films 
14 March  Dr Eamonn Gaffney (Birmingham) 
Non-autonomous RD equations: biological pattern formation & stability 
Seminar postponed until 21 March
21 March  Professor David Needham (Reading) 
The generalised Fisher equation 
CANCELLED - Seminar postponed until later date

Autumn Term 2000

18 October  Dr Trachette Jackson (Michigan) 
A spatio-temporal model of the mitotic clock in avascular tumors 
25 October  Professor David Evans (Bristol) 
Trapped modes in water waves and acoustics 
1 November  Professor Edgar Knobloch (Leeds) 
Forced symmetry-breaking as a mechanism for bursting 
8 November  Professor Ian Dryden (Nottingham) 
Applications of shape analysis: brains, muscles and sand grains 
15 November  Professor Tom Mullin (Manchester) 
Pattern formation in granular flows 
22 November  Dr Arnd Baecker (BRIMS, HP Labs, Bristol) 
Eigenfunctions in chaotic systems 
29 November  Professor Eric Renshaw (Strathclyde) 
Stochastic processes with hidden event times 
6 December  Dr Valery Smyshlyaev (Bath) 
"Higher-order" effects for multiple scale media via homogenisation 

Summer Term 2000

26 April  Dr Razvan Satnoianu (Oxford) 
A view on pattern formation through reaction-diffusion-advection equations 
Note: this talk will take place in room C14 
3 May  No seminar
Inaugural lecture by Professor V. P. Belavkin (Nottingham) at 6pm in Pope room C16
Quantum probabilities and paradoxes of the quantum century
10 May  Dr Simon Wilson (Manchester) 
Fluid mechanics of volcanic lava and a mechanism for bubble release 
17 May  Professor Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck (East Anglia) 
Some unexpected effects of vorticity on nonlinear water waves 
14 June  Dr Arcangelo Messina (Lecce) 
Vibrational studies of laminated composite structural components 

Spring Term 2000

2 February  Professor Laurence Eaves (Physics, Nottingham) 
Quantum Hall effect breakdown: analogies with hydrodynamics 
9 February  Dr John Lister (Cambridge) 
Pinchoff and rupture: singularity, similarity and symmetry 
15 February  Professor Graham Gladwell (Waterloo) 
*Tuesday  The vibration of a membrane - new insights into an old problem 
Note: this talk will take place in room B13 at 1.00 pm 
16 February  Dr David Wood (Warwick) 
Coupled cells with internal symmetries 
23 February  Dr Yulii Shikhmurzaev (Birmingham) 
Coalescence and breakup of liquid volumes: how to remove the singularity? 
1 March  Professor Nick Trefethen (Oxford) 
An online tour of spectral methods 
Note: this talk will take place in room C14 
8 March  Dr Darren Crowdy (Imperial College) 
2-D fluid dynamics and the inverse gravitational problem 
15 March  Dr Linda Cummings (Nottingham) 
Migration of voids in electrical conductors 
22 March  Dr Markus Owen (Loughborough) 
The mechanics of lung tissue under high-frequency ventilation 

Autumn Term 1999

6 October  Dr Stephen Wilson (Strathclyde) 
Towards a model for subcooled nucleate boiling
13 October  Dr Matthias Heil (Manchester) 
Airway closure: liquid bridges in non-axisymmetrically buckled tubes 
20 October  Short talks by 2nd year PhD students
27 October  Dr John Billingham (Birmingham)
The effect of heat loss on strongly exothermic combustion in pre-mixed fuels 
3 November  Prof. R. D James (Minnesota)
NEWTON LECTURE
Deformable thin films: from macroscale to microscale and from nanoscale to microscale 
10 November  Dr Andrew Fowler (Oxford)
Breaking the seal at Grimsvotn: subglacial eruptions and floods 
17 November  Dr Anne Skeldon (City University)
Pattern selection in parametrically excited surface waves 
24 November  Dr Mark Fromhold (Physics, Nottingham)
Quantum chaos in semiconductor diodes and microtransistors 
1 December  To be announced
8 December  Dr John Norbury (Oxford)
Title to be announced

Summer Term 1999

21 April  Dr Alan Champneys (Bristol) 
"Embedded solitons": solitary waves in resonance with the linear spectrum
28 April  Dr Steve Coombes (Loughborough) 
Dynamics of pulse-coupled integrate-and-fire oscillators 
5 May  Dr Sergei Fedotov (UMIST) 
Travelling waves in a reaction-diffusion system via Hamiltonian asymptotics
12 May  Dr Peter Haynes (Cambridge)
Stratospheric stirring and mixing
19 May  Prof Dave Broomhead (UMIST)
Fractals and channels
26 May  Dr Jane White (Bath)
Natural enemy interactions - 2 case studies with related biocontrol issues 

Spring Term 1999

13 January  Professor Jon Keating (Bristol) 
Random matrix theory and zeta(1/2+it) 
3 February  Professor John Hogan (Bristol) 
Asymptotic analysis of order parameter variation in liquid crystals near a wall 
10 February  Dr Kevin Ridley (DERA) 
Dichotomous random walks 
17 February  Dr Hoi-Kwong Lo (Hewlett Packard, Bristol) 
From quantum cheating to quantum security: an introduction to quantum cryptography
24 February  Dr Anthony Kay (Loughborough) 
Inviscid boundary layers: the asymptotics of finite-time blow-up in Boussinesq flow 
3 March  Professor Eric Jakeman (Nottingham) 
Population models and the counting process 
10 March  Dr Jonathan Evans (Aberystwyth) 
Thin viscoelastic films 
11 March  Professor Jim Murray (visiting Glasgow) 
*Thursday  to be arranged 
17 March  Professor Brian Sleeman (Leeds) 
Mathematical modelling of the onset of capillary formation initiating angiogenesis 

Autumn Term 1998

2 September  Dr Yoshitsugu Takei (RIMS, Kyoto) 
*Tuesday  Connection formulae for Painleve transcendents 
17 September  Professor Roger Grimshaw (Monash) 
*Thursday  Radiating solitary waves 
7 October  Professor Ron Smith (Loughborough) 
Transport in lungs and branched estuaries 
14 October  Short talks by 2nd year PhD students
21 October  Dr Steve Baigent (UCL) 
Gap functional coupling - the importance of being nonlinear 
28 October  Dr Colin Please (Southampton) 
Cell motion in multicell spheroids 
4 November  Dr Peter Howell (Oxford) 
Bubble bursting and foam stability 
11 November  Professor Leslie Hocking (London) 
to be arranged 
18 November  Dr Yuri Antipov (visiting Bath) 
Mixed boundary value problems of the theory of elasticity for cylindrical surfaces 
25 November  Dr Rebecca Hoyle (Cambridge) 
Eckhaus and zigzag instabilities in a nonvariational Ginzburg-Landau equation 
2 December  Dr Andrew Bassom (Exeter) 
Localised perturbations in an elastic strut 
9 December  Dr Richard Dendy (UKAEA Fusion) 
to be arranged 

Summer Term 1998

22 April  Dr Stephen Gourlay (Surrey) 
Time-delays and non-local nonlinearities in reaction-diffusion equations 
29 April  Professor Adam Wheeler (Southampton) 
to be arranged 
6 May  Professor Philip Blythe (DAMTP/Lehigh) 
to be arranged 
8 May  Dr Brian Seymour (UBC) 
*Friday  to be arranged 
13 May  Dr Alistair Fitt (Southampton) 
Partial singular integro-differential equations in mathematical modelling 
20 May  Professor Thanasis Fokas (Imperial) 
Linear and integrable nonlinear pde's in arbitrary domains 
3 June  Dr Andrew Gilbert (Exeter) 
Spiral wind-up and the relaxation of inviscid vortices 
10 June  Dr Tony Rawlins (Brunel) 
to be arranged 

Spring Term 1998

14 January  Professor Ted Johnson (UCL) 
Topographic effects in coastal flows 
21 January  Dr Jaroslav Stark (UCL - CNDA) 
Reconstructing dynamical systems driven by external events 
18 February  Professor Alan Newell (Warwick) 
Semiconductor lasers and Kolmogorov spectra 
25 February  Dr Grae Worster (Cambridge) 
Elements of frost heave 
4 March  Dr Stefan Llewelyn Smith (Cambridge) 
Near-inertial oscillations in the ocean mixed layer 
11 March  Professor A. P. Katchalov (Steklov Mathematical Institute) 
to be arranged 
18 March  Dr Shaun Sellers (UEA) 
Some recent ideas on the mechanics of defective crystals 

Autumn Term 1997

8 October  Dr Peter Ehrhard (FZK, Karlsruhe) 
Spreading flows with solidification 
15 October  Short talks by 2nd year PhD students
22 October  Dr Michele Bartuccelli (Surrey) 
Conditions for the positivity of solutions of a class of dissipative pde's
29 October  Dr Philip Maini (Oxford) 
Reaction-diffusion and chemotactic models for embryological pattern formation 
5 November  Dr Alistair Rucklidge (Cambridge) 
Instabilities of spatio-temporally symmetric periodic orbits 
12 November  Professor Ray Ogden (Glasgow) 
The effect of elastic surface coating on finite deformation and stability of elastic bodies 
19 November  Professor I. A. Molotkov (Russion Academy of Sciences) 
Variational principles for the nonlinear problems on the trajectories of powerful wave-beams and on the reaction-diffusion fronts 
26 November  Dr Jonathan Sherratt (Warwick) 
Oscillatory waves and spatio-temporal chaos in the wake of ecological invasion 
3 December  Dr John Hinch (Cambridge) 
Some free-surface flows 
10 December  Professor John Gibbon (Imperial) 
Vorticity alignment in the 3D Euler and Navier-Stokes equations 
17 December  Dr Chris Howls (Brunel) 
to be arranged 

Summer Term 1997

23 April  Professor Chris Eilbeck (Heriot-Watt) 
Breathers in 1D and 2D lattices 
30 April  Professor John Toland (Bath) 
The Peierls-Nabarro and Benjamin Ono equations 
7 May  Dr Geoffrey Burton (Bath) 
Rearrangements of functions and vorticity in fluids 
14 May  Dr Sam Howison (Oxford) 
Stokes flow with free surfaces 
21 May  Professor Chris Budd (Bath) 
New bifurcations in non-smooth systems 
4 June  Dr Roberto Gratton (Universidad Nacional Del Centro - Buenos Aires) 
Closure of cavities in creeping flows 
11 June  Dr Paul Hammerton (UEA) 
Receptivity of boundary layers to free-stream disturbances 
2 July  Dr Jeff Dewynne (Southampton) 
Partial derivatives and financial derivatives 

Spring Term 1997

8 January  Dr O. Harlen (Leeds) 
Extensional flows of highly elastic liquids 
15 January  Dr J. Elgin (Imperial) 
Multifractality of the Lorenz attractor 
22 January  Dr S. Hood (Liverpool) 
Symmetries, conservation laws and analytical solutions of differential equations 
29 January  Dr R. Ford (Imperial) 
to be announced 
19 February  Professor Simon Tavener (Penn State) 
Convective effects on a propagating reaction front 
26 February  Professor Charlie Elliott (Sussex) 
Approximation of curvature dependent interface motion 
5 March  Dr Paul Martin (Manchester) 
Scattering by rough surfaces 
12 March  Professor Ugur Abdullaev (Nottingham and Azerbaijan) 
Reaction diffusion in irregular domains 
19 March  Dr John Barrett (Imperial) 
Finite element approximation of a model for phase separation of a multi-component alloy 

Autumn Term 1996

9 October  Professor A. Brandenburg (Newcastle) 
Simulating self-excited turbulence in accretion disks 
16 October  Short talks by 2nd year PhD students
23 October  Professor A. Woods (Bristol) 
Fluid dynamics of liquid recharge in geothermal reservoirs 
30 October  Dr R. Crastor (Nottingham) 
to be arranged 
6 November  Dr O. Jensen (Cambridge) 
The thin liquid lining of a weakly curved cylindrical tube 
13 November  Dr C. Caulfield (Bristol) 
Three-dimensional plane waves with time-dependent wave numbers: theory and applications in fluid mechanics 
20 November  Professor W. Fushchych (Kiev) 
Symmetry and exact solutions of nonlinear, multidimensional Schrodinger equations 
4 December  Professor D. Abrahams (Keele) 
Slow flow in a duct; a matrix Wiener-Hopf problem 
11 December  Dr A. Fowler (Oxford) 
Surging ice sheets 

Summer Term 1996

24 April  Professor V. M. Entov (Isaac Newton Institute) 
Free boundary problems in the theory of flows through porous media 
1 May  Dr M. Nagata (Birmingham) 
3D time dependent nonlinear solutions in plane Couette flow 
8 May  Dr A. Lacey (Heriot-Watt) 
Blow-up for non-local parabolic equations 
15 May  Dr N. Balmforth (Nottingham) 
Dynamics of vorticial defects in shear 
22 May  Professor D. Needham (Reading) 
Global similarity solutions to a class of semilinear parabolic equations 
19 June  Dr R. Tew (Nottingham) 
Curvature effects in high frequency surface wave propagation 
26 June  Dr S. Dunnett (Loughborough) 
The modelling of people's exposure to contaminant using computational fluid dynamics

Spring Term 1996

10 January  Dr J. Sherratt (Warwick) 
Healing by numbers; mathematical models of wound healing
17 January  Dr E. Roberts (Nottingham) 
Flow transitions and chaotic advection for unsteady flows in baffled channels 
7 February  Dr D. Acheson (Oxford) 
The not-so-simple pendulum 
14 February  Professor P. G. Daniels (City) 
Convection patterns in fluids heated from below 
21 February  Dr J. S. Owen (Nottingham) 
Performance of bridges in the Northridge earthquake 
28 February  Dr S. J. Chapman (Oxford) 
Models for vortices in type-II superconductors 
6 March  Dr V. A. Galaktionov (Bath) 
Rate of approach to a singular steady state in quasilinear reaction-diffusion equations 
13 March  Dr J. C. Engineer (Nottingham) 
Diffraction by slender bodies 

Autumn Term 1995

4 October  Short talks by 2nd year PhD students
11 October  Professor J. W. Dold (UMIST) 
Propagation of unstable combustion interfaces 
25 October  Professor M. Silber (Northwestern) 
Heteroclinic cycles and networks in symmetric pattern-forming systems 
1 November  Professor P. A. Clarkson (Kent) 
Symmetry reductions and exact solutions of shallow water wave equations 
8 November  Dr J. R. Ockendon (Oxford) 
Vortices, dislocations and boundaries 
15 November  Professor D. G. Crighton (Cambridge) 
Fluid-structure interaction with mean flow 
22 November  Professor D. Parker (Edinburgh) 
Surface acoustic waves near a second harmonic resonance 
6 December  Dr G. Ruddock (Nottingham) 
Forming processes for fibre reinforced materials 
13 December  Dr S. Cox (Nottingham) 
Two-dimensional models for three-dimensional convection