Sunday, October 12, 1997

Nonlinear and Complex Systems

• 10:30am   B.J. Matkowsky,   Dept. of Engineering Sci. and Applied Math, NWU
  Title: Instabilities, Fingering and the Saffman-Taylor Problem in Filtration Combustion
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• 11:00   Professor T. Dupont,   Dept. of Computer Science, UC
  Title: Drying coffee drops
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• 11:30   Professor M. Silber ,   Dept. of Engineering Sci. and Applied Math, NWU
  Title: Superlattice Wave Patterns
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• 13:30   Dr. F. Cattaneo ,   Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC
  Title: Magnetic fields and convection
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• 14:00   Professor Z. Xia,   Dept. of Mathematics, NWU
  Title: Hamiltonian dynamical systems
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• 14:30   Dr. S. Venkataramani,   James-Franck Inst., UC
  Title: Attraction, diffusion and collapse
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• 15:30   Professor D. Margoliash,   Dept. of Organismal Biol. & Anat., UC
  Title: A myopic view of neural population coding in bird song
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• 16:00   Dr. S. Waters,   Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, NWU
  Title: Biomedical applications of non-linear mathematics
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Thursday, October 23, 1997

Conference on Probability, Ergodic Theory and Analysis

• 10:30am   Professor Donald Burkholder,   University of Illinois at Urbana
  Title: Noncommutative martingale theory: recent progress and some open problems
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• 1:30pm   Professor Amos Nevo,   Technion University
  Title: A Spectral transfer principle and the ergodic theory of semi-simple groups
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• 2:45pm   Professor Paul Malliavin,   University of Paris
  Title: Faithful ergodic representations versus Haar measure
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• 4:00pm   Professor Earl Berkson,   University of Illinois, Urbana
  Title: Transference methods in spectral theory and ergodic operator theory
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Friday, October 24, 1997

• 3:00 p.m.   Professor Tom Liggett ,   University of California, Los Angeles
  Title: Stochastic Growth Models on Trees I
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• 9:30am   Professor Marjorie Hahn,   Tufts University
  Title: Self-normalization: Why?
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• 11:00am   Professor Joseph Rosenblatt,   University of Illinois at Urbana
  Title: Convergence of averages in ergodic theory
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• 4:30pm   Professor Robin Pemantle ,   University of Wisconsin at Madison
  Title: Urn schemes and reinforced random walks, old and new
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Saturday, October 25, 1997

Nineteenth Midwest Probability Colloquium

• 9:30am   Professor Tom Liggett,   University of California, Los Angeles
  Title: Stochastic Growth Models on Trees II
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• 1:30pm   Professor Richard Sowers,   University of Illinois, Urbana
  Title: Some probabilistic aspects of motion by mean curvature
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• 3:30pm   Professor Ulrich Krengel,   University of Gottingen
  Title: Some highlights in the work of A. Bellow
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Sunday, October 26, 1997

• 9:30am   Professor Arkady Tempelman,   Penn State
  Title: Topics in Fractal Dimension
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• 11:00am   Professor Hillel Furstenberg,   Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Title: Stationary Group Actions
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• 1:30pm   Professor Donald Ornstein,   Stanford University
  Title: Invariant curves for maps of surfaces
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Saturday, January 24, 1998

Midwest Topology Seminar

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• 11:30am   Igor Kriz,   University of Michigan
  Title: Toward a geometric construction of elliptic cohomology
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• 4:00pm   Vladimir Voevodsky ,   Northwestern University
  Title: Classifying spaces of finite groups from algebro-geometrical point of view
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March 21-24, March 21, 1998

Northwestern PDE Conference in conjunction with the Spring 1998 Midwest PDE Seminar

• 9:00am   Professor ,   The PDE conference will be held in Leve
  Title: Update information can be found in our webpage http://math.nwu.edu/~gqchen/index.html
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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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• 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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