Many-body wave scattering by small bodies and creating materials with a desired refraction coefficient

Speaker: 

Alexander Ramm

Institution: 

Kansas State University

Time: 

Thursday, February 5, 2009 - 4:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

Many-body scattering problem is solved asymptotically when the size of the particles tends to zero and the number of the particles tends to infinity.
A method is given for calculation of the number of small particles and their boundary impedances such that embedding of these particles in a bounded domain, filled with known material, results in creating a new material with a desired refraction coefficient.
iThe new material may be created so that it has negative refraction, that is, the group velocity in this material is directed opposite to the phase velocity.
Another possible application consists of creating the new material with some desired wave-focusing properties. For example, one can create a new material which scatters plane wave mostly in a fixed given solid angle. In this application it is assumed that the incident plane wave has a fixed frequency and a fixed incident direction.
An inverse scattering problem with scattering data given at a fixed wave number and at a fixed incident direction is formulated and solved. Acoustic and electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering problems are discussed.

A.G.Ramm's vita, list of publications and some papers can be printed from the Internet address http://www.math.ksu.edu/~ramm

Gradient-Augmented Level Set and Sharp Interface Methods: Application to Bouncing Droplets and Liquid Films

Speaker: 

Dr. Jean-Christophe Nave

Institution: 

MIT

Time: 

Friday, January 30, 2009 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH306

In this talk we will present numerical methods for the simulation of several
two-phase flow problems requiring high accuracy at the interface. Throughout,
we will motivate and illustrate our approach using examples such as falling
liquid films, partial coalescence, bouncing droplets on a soap film, and
walking droplets on a periodically excited bath.
We identify the different domains present in such systems using a level set
function. A common challenge is how to correctly enforce boundary conditions
across the different domains. Another challenge is how to represent and track
small structures (possibly with sub-grid features) without loss of mass over
long computations.
Toward achieving these goals, we will introduce a new method to solve the
advection equation for the level set. Our approach relies on carrying both the
values and gradients of the level set function as coupled quantities via a
projection step. Using a local stencil, our method achieves third order global
accuracy and removes the need to solve a reinitialization equation. We will
then show the connection of the new method with enforcing sub-grid interfacial
jump conditions in the two-phase Navier-Stokes equations.
Finally, we will discuss some advantages of the proposed approach e.g.
locality
and higher order, and also extensions beyond two-phase liquid/gas systems.

Spectral Properties of the Weakly Coupled Fibonacci Hamiltonian

Speaker: 

Anton Gorodetski

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

We consider the spectrum of the Fibonacci Hamiltonian for small
values of the coupling constant. It is known that this set is a Cantor set
of zero Lebesgue measure. We show that as the value of the coupling constant
approaches zero, the thickness of this Cantor set tends to infinity, and,
consequently, its Hausdorff dimension tends to one. Moreover, the length of
every gap tends to zero linearly. Finally, for sufficiently small coupling,
the sum of the spectrum with itself is an interval. The last result provides
a rigorous explanation of a phenomenon for the Fibonacci square lattice
discovered numerically by Even-Dar Mandel and Lifshitz. The proof is based
on a detailed study of the dynamics of the so called trace map. This is a
joint work with David Damanik.

Local Langlands correspondence for GSp(4) and its inner form

Speaker: 

Prof. Wee Teck Gan

Institution: 

UCSD

Time: 

Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 3:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

The local Langlands correspondence for GSp(4)
gives a classification of irreducible complex representations of GSp(4,k),
where k is a p-adic field in terms of 4-dimensional symplectic
Galois representations (plus some additional data). I will describe the
precise statement and give an idea of its proof. I will also mention
some further questions in this direction. This is joint work with
Shuichiro Takeda.

A codimension two CR singular real submanifold in a complex space with a symmetric model

Speaker: 

Professor Xiaojun Huang

Institution: 

University of Rutgers

Time: 

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 4:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

This a joint work with Wanke Yin.
Let $M\subset \mathbb{C}^{n+1}$ ($n\ge 2$) be a real
analytic submanifold defined by an equation of the form:
$w=|z|^2+O(|z|^3)$, where we use $(z,w)\in {\CC}^{n}\times \CC$
for the coordinates of ${\CC}^{n+1}$. We first derive a pseudo-normal form
for $M$ near $0$. We then use it to prove that $(M,0)$ is holomorphically
equivalent to the quadric $(M_\infty: w=|z|^2,\ 0)$ if and only if it can
be formally transformed to $(M_\infty,0)$, using the rapid convergence
method. We also use it to give a necessary and sufficient condition
when $(M,0)$ can be formally flattened. Our main theorem generalizes a
classical result of Moser for the case of $n=1$.

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