Applied Mathematics Seminar In Semester 2, 2004, the Applied Mathematics Seminar will be held on Wednesdays 14:05-14:55 in Carslaw Lecture Theatre 273.
	Wednesday Mar 17 Michael Wheatland Bayesian refinement of solar flare prediction Wednesday Mar 24 David Rees Ghost in the machine: From turbulence, faces and ducks to solar magnetic fields Wednesday Mar 31 Alexei Akhmetshin Zero-curvature equations on algebraic curves. Field analog of the Calogero-Moser system Wednesday Apr 7 Michael Breakspear Nonlinear synchronization and desynchronization in neural systems: Evidence and putative function Wednesday Apr 21 Tony Guttmann The analytic structure of lattice models Wednesday Apr 28 Xiaofeng Ren The density functional theory of diblock copolymers Wednesday May 5 Laszlo Kiss Chaos in astrophysics Tuesday May 11 Graeme Milton Composite materials: An old field of study full of new surprises Wednesday May 12 Leon Poladian Methods for modelling imperfections in optical fibres: design and manufacturing implications Wednesday May 19 Peter Harrowell Aperiodic tilings and random packed disks: the statistical properties of oddly ordered stuff Wednesday May 26 Stéphane Lafortune Stability analysis of local deformations of an elastic rod Wednesday Jun 2 David Liley Brain dynamics and the electroencephalogram Wednesday Jun 9 Marc Raimondo Wavelet deconvolution in a periodic setting Wednesday Jun 30 Graeme Wake Modelling of cancer treatment
	Wednesday Jul 28 Stephen Goulter The Turing definition of machine intelligence Wednesday Aug 4 Bernhard Krön Random walks on self-similar graphs Wednesday Aug 11 Phil Attard Forces and interactions between soft particles Wednesday Aug 18 Cristina Stoica Relative equilibria in mechanical systems with isotropy Wednesday Aug 25 Robert Dewar Quantum chaos theory and the spectrum of ideal-MHD instabilities in toroidal plasmas Wednesday Sep 1 Steve Meikle Principles, applications and challenges of small animal molecular imaging Thursday Sep 2 Michael Berry Two universal oscillatory asymptotic phenomena Tuesday Sep 7 Boris Malomed Finite-band solitons in the Kronig-Penney model with the cubic-quintic nonlinearity Wednesday Sep 8 Murray Batchelor Mathematical approach to modelling the growth and form of microbial mats and stromatolites Wednesday Oct 6 Carl Chiarella Mean Variance Preferences, Expectations Formation, and the Dynamics of Random Asset Prices Wednesday Oct 13 Michael Banner Forecasting breaking waves during storms Wednesday Oct 27 Ian Melbourne The Lorenz attractor is mixing Wednesday Nov 10 Gary Froyland Detecting and locating near-optimal almost-invariant sets and cycles Monday Nov 29 Robert Conte A reduction of the resonant three-wave interaction to the generic sixth Painleve equation Tuesday Nov 30 Wayne Getz Modeling epidemics and disease invasion in heterogeneous populations: some new results on invasion and transmission with application to AIDS, SARS, and other infectious diseases
	Questions concerning the Seminar should be addressed to Georg Gottwald, Carslaw 636, 9351 5784.