The "Ice flow is not JUST a PDE" Seminar

Spring 2006

Contact: Ed Bueler, ffelb@uaf.edu, x7693
Usual TIME & PLACE:  Friday 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm,  Chapman 107

The purpose of this seminar is to study free boundary problems  and inverse problems in cryophysics.  Subjects include:
and so on, and related topics.

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Schedule
(version 5/4/06)
  • Thurs 2/9, 1pm in Chapman 106: V. Kozlov colloquium On eigenfrequencies and zero sets of eigenmodes of the 2D sloshing problem
  • Fri 2/10:  Martin Truffer discusses work on deforming till in valley glaciers which, among other things, has motivated Schoof's ".... plastic till"
  • Fri 2/17:  David Maxwell reviews Schoof's paper "... plastic till" from a mathematical viewpoint
  • Fri 2/24:  Jason Amundson presents inverse problem, related to Schoof's work, which uses observations of ice motion to infer basal sliding
  • Thurs 3/2, 1pm in Chapman 106:  Ed Bueler colloquium Ice Sheets and Obstacle Problems
  • Fri 3/10:  Dmitri Nikolsky talks about the Baiocchi (porous dam) and Stefan (phase change) problems
  • Fri 3/17:  [SPRING BREAK]
  • Fri 3/24:  [no talk]
  • Fri 3/31, 2:15pm in Chapman 107:  B. Mordukhovich colloquium Variational Analysis and Generalized Differentiation: New Trends and Developments
  • Fri 4/7: Elchin Jafarov: a talk about an optimal control approach to an infinite ice mass model (related to Colinge and Rappaz)
  • Fri 4/14:  [no talk]
  • Fri 4/21:  [no talk]
  • Fri 4/28:  [no talk]
  • Fri 5/5, 2:15 in Chapman 107:  David Maxwell, on FEM version of Schoof's variational "...plastic till" formulation for valley glaciers
  • Wed 5/10, location TBA, 3:30pm: Sergei Avdonin, on "Colinge & Rapaz" type inverse problems


Implementations


Speakers so far:
Vladimir Kozlov
Martin Truffer
David Maxwell
Jason Amundson
Ed Bueler
Dmitri Nikolsky
Sergei Avdonin
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