Workshop on Mathematical Methods in the Geosciences and Related Areas

March 15-March 19, 1999

All the talks will be held in Oldfather Hall, Room 303, on the City Campus. The Mathematics Department Office is in 810 Oldfather Hall. David Logan's office is in Room 830.

Monday, March 15

9:00 Coffee and pastries in 8th Floor seminar room (Oldfather Hall)
10:00 Glenn Ledder and David Logan, Dept of Math, Univ of Nebraska Contamination and remediation events in a filtration model
11:00 Free time for Discussions
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Paul Macklin, Dept of Math, Univ of Nebraska Finite differences and stability calculations in a filtration model
2:30 Free time for discussions
6:00 Dinner at Crane River

Tuesday, March 16

9:00 Coffee and pastries in 8th Floor seminar room (Oldfather Hall)
9:30 John Wilson, New Mex Inst of Mining and Tech Applications of adjoint models in hydrogeology
10:30 Free time for Discussions
11:30 Lunch
1:00 Joe Skopp, Dept of Agronomy, Univ of Nebraska Estimation of non-aqueous phase transport properties
2:00 Dan Van Peursem, Dept of Math, Univ of South Dakota A vertical circulation well in a layered aquifer
3:00 Free time for discussions
6:00 Dinner at The Oven

Wednesday, March 17

9:00 Coffee and pastries in 8th Floor seminar room (Oldfather Hall)
9:30 Al Valocchi, Department of Civil Engineering, Univ of Illinois Transport, mixing, and reaction processes in aquifer remediation
10:30 Free time for Discussions
11:30 Lunch
1:00 Tom Witelski, Duke University Richard's equation and degenerate parabolic equations
2:00 Howard Levine, Dept of Math, Iowa St U Mathematical model for the vascularization of malignant tumor growth
3:00 Free time for discussions
6:30 Banquet at the Downtown Holiday Inn (University Room)

Thursday, March 18

9:00 Coffee and pastries in 8th Floor seminar room (Oldfather Hall)
9:30 Mark Peletier, CWI (The Netherlands) Localized buckling in geological structures
10:30 Free time for Discussions
11:30 Lunch
1:00 Peter Indelman, Technion-Israel Inst of Tech Transport by radial divergent flow in heterogeneous media
2:00 Michelle Homp, Dept of Math, Concordia University A transport model with bounded flux
3:00 Free time for discussions and refreshments
6:00 Dinner at Green Gateaux

Friday, March 19

8:30 Coffee and pastries in 8th Floor seminar room (Oldfather Hall)
9:30 Daniel Tartakovsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory Free Surfaces in Random Porous Media
11:30 Box Lunch brought in
1:00 Rikki Wagstrom, Dept of Math, Calvin College and UNL A non-classical, nonlinear parabolic equation
2:00 Free time for discussions
6:00 Dinner at Vincenzo's

Additional Participants

Serdal Pamuk, Dept of Math, Iowa State Univ
Professor Vitaly Zlotnik, Dept of Geosciences, Univ of Nebraska
Professor Steve Cohn, Dept of Mathematics, Univ of Nebraska
Professor Tom Shores, Dept of Mathematics, Univ of Nebraska
Professor Steven Dunbar, Dept of Mathematics, Univ of Nebraska
Mark Petersen, Dept of Mathematics, Univ of Nebraska
Paul Gierke, Dept of Mathematics, Univ of Nebraska
Bill Wolesensky, Dept of Mathematics, Univ of Nebraska
Professor Alan Peterson, Dept of Mathematics, Univ of Nebraska
Ajay Y-V-K-S, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Univ of Nebraska
Darryl Bell, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Univ of Nebraska