Lectures and Events

AMATH Conferences, 2025 
AMATH Conferences, 2025 
November 12, 2025
NeuroAI 2025
Join us in decoding intelligence -- the latest from our Computational Neuroscience Center (CNC)
October 13, 2025
Applied PDE Seminar: Paolo Ventura, Instability Isolas of Stokes Waves
Applied PDE Seminar: Paolo Ventura, Instability Isolas of Stokes Waves
April 2, 2025
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Applied PDE Seminar: Ryan Creedon, Transverse Instability of Stokes Waves in Finite Depth
May 27, 2024
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Applied PDE Seminar: Huy Nguyen, Proof of the transverse instability of Stokes waves 
May 20, 2024
Dmitry Pelinovsky from McMaster University
Applied PDE Seminar: Dmitry Pelinovsky, On smooth and peaked traveling waves in a local model for shallow water waves
May 13, 2024
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Applied PDE Seminar: Olivia Cannon, Shifting Parties in Social Dynamics: a Nonlocal Approach
April 22, 2024
Applied PDE Seminar: Christian Kharif, Weakly nonlinear capillary waves on a shear current: Stability  and bifurcation
Applied PDE Seminar: Christian Kharif, Weakly nonlinear capillary waves on a shear current: Stability  and bifurcation
April 16, 2024
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Applied PDE Seminar: Xinyu Zhao, On instability of the Taylor-Green vortex in 2D Euler flows
March 29, 2024
AAbassi
Applied PDE Seminar: Ahmad Abassi, The semi-analytic theory and computation of finite-depth standing water waves
March 21, 2024
Journeys of Black Mathematicians - Seattle Invitation (full poster)
SLMath Film Screening + Director Q&A: "Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience"
January 22, 2024
Lewis Hall
Call for Nominations: 2024 Frederic & Julia Wan Lecturer Prize
November 13, 2023
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Applied PDE Seminar: Jon Wilkening, Long-time nonlinear dynamics of perturbed traveling and standing water waves
May 11, 2023
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Applied PDE Seminar: Anastassiya Semenova, Almost extreme Stokes waves and their stability
May 3, 2023
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Applied PDE Seminar: Sergey A. Dyachenko, Almost extreme Stokes waves and their stability: numerics
April 21, 2023
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Applied PDE Seminar: Ryan Creedon, An Asymptotic Description of the Spectral Instabilities of Stokes Waves
April 14, 2023
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Applied PDE Seminar: Massimiliano Berti, Full description of Benjamin-Feir instability of Stokes waves in finite depth: Part II
April 7, 2023
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Applied PDE Seminar: Alberto Maspero, Full description of Benjamin-Feir instability of Stokes waves in finite depth: Part I
March 21, 2023
Qing Ne
Inaugural Lecture of the Frederic and Julia Wan Lecture Series
February 17, 2023
Annalisa Calini
Annalisa Calini: Soliton equations and geometric flows
May 26, 2022
Igor Rumanov: (2+1)-dimensional Whitham systems: 2dNLS, KP and others
Igor Rumanov: (2+1)-dimensional Whitham systems: 2dNLS, KP and others
May 19, 2022
Maria Ntekoume
Maria Ntekoume: Global well-posedness for the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation
May 12, 2022
Beatrice Pelloni: Time-periodic boundary value problem for dispersive PDEs
Beatrice Pelloni: Time-periodic boundary value problem for dispersive PDEs
April 28, 2022
Mattingly
Jonathan Mattingly: Using Computational Sampling to Quantify Gerrymandering
March 10, 2022
Maxim Olshanii
Maxim Olshanii: Triangular Gross-Pitaevskii breathers and Damski-Chandrasekhar shock waves
March 3, 2022
NathanKutz
Nathan Kutz: The Future of Governing Equations
February 24, 2022
Dionyssis Mantzavinos
Dionyssis Mantzavinos: Initial-boundary value problems for nonlinear dispersive PDEs in one and two dimensions
February 17, 2022
Tom Bridges
Tom Bridges: Reappraisal of Whitham's 1967 theory for wave-meanflow interaction in shallow water
January 27, 2022
Anastassiya Semenova
Anastassiya Semenova: Superharmonic instabilities of Stokes waves
January 20, 2022
Denis Silantyev
Denis Sylantyev: Generalized Constantin-Lax-Majda equation: collapse vs. blow-up and global existence
January 13, 2022
Anne Greenbaum
Professor Anne Greenbaum selected as 2022 Sonia Kovalesky Lecturer
January 3, 2022
Gong Chen
Gong Chen: Nonlinear modulational instability of the Stokes waves in 2D full water waves
December 2, 2021
Rosa María Vargas-Magaña
Rosa María Vargas-Magaña: Undular bores governed by the full water wave equations and bi-directional Whitham-Boussinesq equations
November 18, 2021
Slim Ibrahim
Slim Ibrahim: Revisit singularity formation for the inviscid primitive equation
November 4, 2021
Zhilin Li
Zhilin Li: Augmented Methods for Stokes-Darcy FSI Problems & HOC Schemes for Flux Type BCs
October 28, 2021
KatyaScheinberg
Katya Scheinberg: Stochastic First Order Oracles and Where to Find Them
October 21, 2021
Susanna Haziot
Susanna Haziot: Large-amplitude steady solitary water waves with constant vorticity
October 14, 2021
Richard Kollar
Richard Kollár: Three lessons we have learned about the epidemiological models during SARS-CoV-2 pandemics
October 7, 2021
David Goluskin
David Goluskin: Variational analysis of fluid equations with help from computational optimization
June 3, 2021
Anna Geyer
Anna Geyer: Stability and persistence of periodic traveling waves
May 20, 2021
Graduation Balloons
2021 Applied Mathematics Graduation Celebration
May 19, 2021
Stephanie Dodson
Stephanie Dodson: One-dimensional spiral waves and reflection-induced cardiac arrhythmia
May 6, 2021
Folkmar Bornemann
Folkmar Bornemann: Finite size effects: random matrices, quantum chaos, and Riemann zeros
April 8, 2021
Stefan Steinberger
Stefan Steinerberger: A PDE describing roots of polynomials under differentiation
April 1, 2021
Tamara Grava
Tamara Grava: Long-time asymptotic for the modified KdV equation with a soliton gas initial data
March 11, 2021
Mark Groves
Mark Groves: Fully localized three-dimensional gravity-capillary solitary waves on water of infinite depth
March 4, 2021
Bjorn Sandstede
Bjorn Sandstede: Stability of planar spiral waves
February 18, 2021
Jens Rademacher
Jens Rademacher: Pulse replication and accumulation of eigenvalues
February 11, 2021
Bobby Wilson
Bobby Wilson: Stability of the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation on the irrational torus
February 4, 2021
Lorena Bociu
Lorena Bociu: Optimal control in fluid-structure interactions
January 28, 2021