[Amath-seminars] Boeing Distinguished Lecture: Claude Le Bris today!

[Randy LeVeque]

Boeing Distinguished Colloquium in Applied Mathematics
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Please join us for the next talk in this series *today* and the
reception afterwards.

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Speaker:  Claude Le Bris, Paris
Title:    Mathematical challenges in Molecular simulation: an overview
Time:     4pm on Thursday, January 29, 2009
Place:    Guggenheim 220 (the Auditorium)

Abstract: Molecular simulation is increasingly important in many
engineering sciences and life sciences. The field has only been
recently explored by mathematical analysts and numerical analysts,
leading to several achievements, but also leaving major challenging
issues unsolved, both theoretically and computationally. The talk
will present the state of the art and will review major mathematical
issues of practical importance and theoretical relevance. It will
also relate such issues of molecular simulation with issues in
materials science. It is mostly based on a recent article coauthored
with E. Cances and PL. Lions, and published in Nonlinearity, volume
21, T165-T176, 2008.

Claude Le Bris is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the
Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Cahussees, Paris. He is also Civil
engineer-in-chief, Associate Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique
and scientific director of the MICMAC project (multiscale methods)
at INRIA. Professor Le Bris has won numerous awards including
the Blaise Pascal Prize 1999 from the French Academy of Sciences,
at INRIA. Professor Le Bris has won numerous awards including
the Blaise Pascal Prize 1999 from the French Academy of Sciences,
the CS 2002 Prize in Scientific computing from Communications &
Systems, and the Giovanni Sacchi-Landriani Prize 2002 from the
Lombard Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Coming Attractions in this series:


February 12, 2009:

Thomas Hou, Caltech
Recent Progress on Dynamic Stability and Global
Regularity of 3D Incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations

February 26, 2009:

Carl Bender, Washington University
Quantum Mechanics in the Complex Domain


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