Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Workshops/Conferences
Year 1998
Saturday, January 24, 1998
Midwest Topology Seminar
March 21-24, March 21, 1998
Northwestern PDE Conference in conjunction with the Spring 1998 Midwest PDE Seminar
- 9:00am Professor ,
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Sunday , March 22, 1998
Nonlinear PDE and Applications
- 11:00am Professor T. Sideris,
University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Title: The evolution of compactly supported planar vorticity
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- 11:35am Professor Weinan E,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA
Title: Invariant measures for the stochastic Burgers equation
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Nonlinear PDE and Applications
- 8:30-9:15 Registration/Coffee,
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- 9:15-9:30 Open/Announcements,
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- 9:30 Professor L. Caffarelli,
University of Texas at Austin
Title: Some Aspects of Homogenization
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- 10:20 Professor B. Dacorogna,
Ecole Polytech Federale, Switzerland
Title: Existence of Lipschitz Solution for Some Nonlinear First Order PDEs and Systems
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- 11:30 Professor T.-P. Liu,
Stanford University
Title: Hyperbolic conservation laws
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- 2:00pm Professor C. Morawetz ,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA
Title: The Reflection of a Weak Shock from a Thin Wedge
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- 2:50pm Professor P. Constantin,
University of Chicago
Title: Turbulent Heat Transport
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- 4:00pm Professor S. Osher ,
University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Title: The Level Set Method and Evolving Crystalline Shapes, Island Dynamics, and New Wulff Isoperimetric Inequalities for Convex Curves
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- 5:00pm Professor Y. Zheng ,
Indiana University, USA
Title: Convergence of the vanishing viscosity approximation for superpositions
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- 5:00pm Professor L. Capogna ,
Courant Institute of mathematical Sciences, USA
Title: The Dirichlet problem for sub-Laplacians
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- 5:25pm Professor S.-H. Wang ,
Indiana University, USA
Title: Structure Analysis of the 2D Incompressible Flows
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- 5:25pm Professor P. Korman ,
University of Cincinnati, USA
Title: Symmetry breaking for semilinear equations
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- 5:50pm Professor W.-C. Wang,
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, USA
Title: Asymptotic Limit of the Initial Boundary Value Problems for Conservation Laws with Relaxational Extensions
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- 5:50pm Professor L. Mou ,
Bradley University, USA
Title: Estimates for biharmonic differential equations and some applications
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- 6:15pm Professor S. Watson ,
Louisiana State University, USA
Title: Unique global solvability for initial-boundary value problems in one-dimensional nonlinear thermoviscoelasticity
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- 6:15pm Professor B. Yan ,
Michigan State University, USA
Title: Coercivity of certain integrals in Sobolev spaces.
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- 8:00pm After-Dinner Party,
763 Michigan Avenue, Wilmette
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- 9:00am Professor J. Glimm ,
State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Title: Predictibility of Complex Phenomena
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- 9:50am Professor Stefan Mueller,
Max Planck Institute for Math. in the Sciences, Leipzig
Title: Variational problems with multiple scales
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- 11:00am Professor T. Sideris ,
University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Title: The evolution of compactly supported planar vorticity
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- 11:00am Professor I. Gamba ,
University of Texas at Austin
Title: Multiscale Analysis for Boltzmann-Poisson Systems in Bounded Domains
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- 11:35am Professor H. Koch ,
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Title: Instability of stationary solutions to the 2-d Euler equations of inviscid incompressible fluids
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- 11:35am Professor P. LeFloch,
Ecole Polytechnique, France
Title: Compressible Euler Equations with General Pressure Law
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- 2:00pm Professor A. Friedman ,
University of Minnesota, USA
Title: Propagation of Crack in Elastic Media
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- 3:00pm Professor S. Tahvildar-Zadeh ,
Princeton University, USA
Title: Global existence of the equivariant Yang-Mills heat flow
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- 3:00pm Professor D. Hoff,
Indiana University, USA
Title: The Zero-Mach Limit of Compressible Flows
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- 3:35pm Professor P. Marcati,
Universita' degli Studi dell' Aquila, Itali
Title: Diffusive dynamics of the multi-D Nonlinear Wave Equations
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- 3:35pm Professor M. Grillakis ,
University of Maryland, USA
Title: The critical nonlinear Schrodinger equation has classical solutions
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- 4:10pm Professor H. Frid,
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Title: Divergence - Measure Fields and Conservation Laws
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- 4:10pm Professor H. Smith ,
University of Washington, USA
Title: Small data scattering for a nonlinear dampened wave equation
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- 5:00pm Professor C. Huang ,
Wright State University, USA
Title: On Non-Local Differential Equations and Applications to Vortex Dynamics in Superconductors
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- 5:00pm Professor Q. Zhang ,
University of Missouri, USA
Title: A new critical behavior for semilinear wave equations
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- 5:25pm Professor M. A. Sychev ,
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Title: Characterization of homogeneous scalar variational problems solvable for all boundary data
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- 5:25pm Professor M. Kovalyov ,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Title: Nonlinear harmonics for Integrable Systems
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- 5:50pm Professor A. M. Blazhierskiy ,
Khmelnitsky Institute of Regional Mngm@Law, Ukraine
Title: Summation of functional series by the method of finite hybrid integral transforms Hankel 1-Hankel 2-Fourier
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- 5:50pm Professor R. Cascaval,
University of Memphis, USA
Title: Global Well-posedness for Some Nonlinear Dispersive Equations
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- 7:30pm Conference Dinner Party,
1629 Chicago Avenue (Church&Chicago), Evanston
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Monday , March 23, 1998
- 9:00am Professor A. Majda ,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA
Title: A Model for Dispersive Wave Turbulence
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- 9:50 Professor B. Matkowsky ,
Northwestern University, USA
Title: Instabilities, Fingering and the Saffman-Taylor Problem in Filtration Combustion
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- 11:00am Professor R. Kupferman,
Lawrence Berkeley Lab. and UC Berkeley, USA
Title: Optimal prediction of underresolved dynamics
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- 11:00am Professor P. Marcellini,
Dipartimento di Matematica
Title: Almost everywhere solutions of some nonlinear second order pdes and systems
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- 11:35am Professor S. Chanillo ,
Rutgers University, USA
Title: Symmetry of solutions of Non-linear PDE
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- 11:35am Professor Weinan E,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA
Title: Invariant measures for the stochastic Burgers equation
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- 2:00pm Professor R. Schoen ,
Stanford University, USA
Title: The Plateau Problem for Lagrangian Submanifolds
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- 3:00pm Professor D. Andreucci,
University of Rome, Italy
Title: Parabolic problems in domains narrowing at infinity: estimates and blow up
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- 3:00pm Professor F. Otto ,
University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Title: The lubrication approximation with prescribed non--zero contact angle
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- 3:35pm Professor P. Bauman,
Purdue University, USA
Title: A Three Dimensional Superconductor in a Strong Magnetic Field
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- 3:35pm Professor R. Jerrard,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Title: Vortex Dynamics of Conservative Ginzburg-Landau Systems
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- 4:10pm Professor C.-Y. Wang,
University of Chicago, USA
Title: Energy Minimizing Maps into Piecewise Uniformly Lipschitz Manifolds
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- 4:10pm Professor M. Miksis,
Northwestern University, USA
Title: Stability and Evolution of Thin Solid Films
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- 5:00pm Professor M. O'Leary ,
University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Title: Integrability and Boundedness of Local Solutions to Singular and Degenerate Quasilinear Parabolic Equations
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- 5:00pm Professor B. Guan ,
University of Tennessee, USA
Title: Curvature Estimates for Hypersurfaces of Constant Gauss Curvature with Boundary
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- 5:25pm Professor G. Simonette,
Vanderbilt University, USA
Title: On the surface diffusion flow
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- 5:25pm Professor L. Giaocomelli ,
University of Rome, Italy
Title: A Degenerate Parabolic Equation from Plasma Physics
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- 5:50pm Professor Y. Koo ,
University of Minnesota, USA
Title: A fattening principle for fronts propagating by mean curvature plus a driving force
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- 5:50pm Professor S. Stojanovic,
University of Cincinnati, USA
Title: Parabolic Equations of Monge-Ampere Type in Finance: Derivation and Computations
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- 6:15pm Professor D. Knopf ,
University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee, USA
Title: Quasi-convergence of the Ricci flow
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- 6:15pm Professor E. Kim,
University of Connecticut
Title: On the Existence of Positive Solutions of Quasilinear Elliptic Boundary Value Problems
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Tuesday, March 24, 1998
- 9:00am Professor C. Dafermos,
Brown University, USA
Title: Structure of Solutions of Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws
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- 9:50am Professor B. Perthame,
University of Paris 6, France
Title: Compactness Averaging Lemmas and Applications
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- 11:00am Professor S.-T. Yau ,
Harvard University, USA
Title: Surfaces with Prescribed Mean Curvature
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- 1:30pm Professor C. Kenig ,
The University of Chicago, USA
Title: Well Posedness for Derivative Nonlinearity Schrodinger Equations, and for the Systems of Ishimori
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- 2:00pm Professor G. Talenti ,
University of Florence, Italy
Title: On Complex-Valued Solutions to a 2D Eikonal Equation
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- 3:30pm Professor A. Chang ,
University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Title: Regularity Results of Harmonic and Bi-harmonic Maps
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- 4:20pm - 4:30pm Announcements/Close ,
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Saturday, May 2, 1998
NU-UC Workshop on Nonlinear/Complex Systems
- 10:00 Professor David Grier,
U. Chicago
Title: Vortex interactions and pinning in Type-II superconductors
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- 10:40 Professor Seth Lichter,
Title: Size Matters in 1-d Lattices
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- 11:20 Professor Jens Niemeyer,
Title: Turbulent Thermonuclear flames in Type Ia Supernovae
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- 1:00pm Professor Tom Nagylaki,
U. Chicago
Title: Diffusion approximations for migration models in population genetics
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- 1:40pm Professor Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi,
Title: How do we learn to move our arms? A neurobiological approach to nonlinear adaptive control
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- 3:00pm Professor Amie Wilkinson,
Northwestern U.
Title: Genericity conjectures for volume preserving diffeomorphisms
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- 3:40pm Professor Alexei Tkachenko,
U. Chicago
Title: Statics of granular material: stress propagation paradox
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- 4:20pm Professor Mike Miksis,
Northwestern U.
Title: Stability and Evolution of Thin Solid Films
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Wednesday, October 14, 1998
3rd UC/NU Workshop on Nonlinear and Complex Systems
- 3:30 D. Mogul,
Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern U.
Title: Chaos and Control of Epilepsy in the Brain
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- 4:20 A. Neisthadt,
Mathematics, U. Chicago and Space Research Institute, Moscow
Title: On the Calculation of Stability Loss Delay Time for Dynamical Bifurcation
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- 5:10 V. Putkaradze ,
James-Franck-Institute, U. Chicago
Title: Selective Withdrawal in Oil/Water System
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- 6:00 H. Riecke,
Applied Mathematics, Northwestern U.
Title: Localized Structures in Pattern-forming Systems
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- 7:45 D. Saari,
Mathematics, Northwestern U.
Title: Chaos and stability. But, in "voting"?
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- 8:40 L. Kadanoff,
James-Franck-Institute, U. Chicago
Title: Generic Behavior of Reversible Dynamical Systems
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Friday, October 23, 1998
Twentieth Midwest Probability Colloquium
Saturday, October 24, 1998
Saturday, October 31, 1998
Midwest Algebraic Geometry Conference
Sunday, November 1, 1998
- 9:30am Alexander Polishchuk,
Harvard University
Title: Fourier transform in algebraic geometry
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- 11:00am Bernd Sturmfels,
University of California, Berkeley
Title: Gröbner deformations of hypergeometric differential equations
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- 1:15pm Hélène Esnault,
Universität Essen
Title: Riemann-Roch theorem for flat bundles with values in the Chern-Simons theory
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- 2:30pm Alexander Beilinson,
University of Chicago
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