Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
PDE Seminar
Year 1998

Thursday, January 8, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University; Title: Pointwise semigroup methods for stability of viscous shock waves.
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Thursday, January 15, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Philippe LeFloch, Ecole Polytechnique, France; Title: Nonconservative Hyperbolic Systems
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Thursday, January 29, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Mikhail Fokin, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences; Title: Hamiltonian Systems with Continuous Spectrum and Chaotic Oscillations of Rotating Ideal Fluid
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Thursday, February 26, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Hans Kaper, Argonne National Laboratory; Title: The Ginzburg-Landau Equations of Superconductivity
Special Note: Joint PDE/Applied Math. Seminar
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Norman Lebovitz, The University of Chicago; Title: Nonlinear Methods for Elliptical Instabilities in Fluids
Special Note: Joint PDE/Applied Math. Seminar
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Friday, February 27, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Professor Henghui Zou, University of Alabama; Title: On positive solutions of degenerate $p$-Laplacian equations on $R^n$.
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Thursday, March 5, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:00pm: Mariko Arisawa, University of Wisconsin; Title: On some homogenization problems for second-order elliptic P.D.Es.
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Thursday, March 12, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt, 3:00pm: Professor Omar Gil, University of Minnesota; Title: The focusing problem for the p-Laplacian evolution equation
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Saturday, March 21, 1998

PDE Seminar Leverone, Coon Forum, 9:00am: ,; Title: Northwestern PDE Conference in conjunction with the Spring 1998 Midwest PDE Seminar
Special Note: The PDE conference will be held in Leverone Hall, 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston; March 21-24, 1998
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Thursday, April 23, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Robert Jerrard, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaigh; Title: Functions of bounded higher variation
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Thursday, May 7, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Yuan Lou, University of Chicago; Title: The proof of a conjecture about the peturbed Gelfand problem.
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Tuesday, May 12, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt 103, 3:00pm: Professor Piermarco Cannarsa, Universita di Roma; Title: Singularities of solutions to H-J-B equations with application to optimal control
Special Note: Time changed ! This is not the usual day !
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Thursday, May 14, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Bob Jensen, Loyola University of Chicago; Title: Cramer's Theorem via PDEs
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Thursday, May 21, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Robert McCann , Brown University; Title: Shape Recognition, Optimal Transportation, and Extremal Doubly Stochastic Measures
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Thursday, June 25, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt 107, 4:10pm: Professor Michel Rascle, University of Nice, France; Title: A New Fluid Model of Traffic Flow
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Wednesday, August 5, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt 107, 3:30pm: Professor Ling Hsiao, Academia Sinica, Beijing; Title: Quasilinear hyperbolic systems with damping mechanism
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PDE Seminar Lunt 107, 4:30pm: Professor M. Kratka, University of Chicago; Title: Multidimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations with free boundary and symmetryh
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Thursday, October 29, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Mikhail Feldman, Northwetsern University; Title: Mass transfer in inhomogeneous media
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Thursday, November 5, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Peiyong Wang, University of Texas at Austin; Title: A Harnack Approach to The Regularity of The Free Boundaries for 2-phase Problems
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Marshall Slemrod , University of Wisconsin at Madison; Title: TBA
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PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Title: TBA
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Thursday, November 12, 1998

PDE Seminar Lunt 103, 4:15pm: Professor Nets Katz, University of Illinois At Chicago; Title: Hexagons, distances, and Besicovitch sets
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