University of Toronto PDE/Applied Math/Analysis, 2006-07

PDE/Applied Math/Analysis Seminars 2006-2007

Of related interest in Toronto:
Fields Institute Colloquium/Seminar in Applied Mathematics.
Fields Analysis Working Group Seminar (Thursdays 11-2 pm).

The seminar meets regulary on Fridays, 12:10-1pm, 2195 Bahen Center * NOTE NEW LOCATION * , followed by lunch with the speaker.
In some weeks there will be another talk on Wednesday, 3:10-4pm, in one of the Fields Institute seminar rooms.
For more information, please contact one of the organizers:
Pieter Blue (pblue @math), Almut Burchard (almut @math), Robert McCann (mccann @math).

If you will be speaking, details on how to use the equipment in BA 6183 can be found here.


jump to next talk             * denotes tentative

Date

Time/Place

Speaker/Title

Fri
Sep 15
12:10-1:00pm
BA 2195
Yvan Castin ( Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Superieure):
Some current challenges in the physics of cold atoms
Fri
Sep 22
12:10-1pm
BA 2195
Etienne Sandier (Université Paris 12 Val-de-Marne and McMaster University):
Limiting vorticity in the Ginzburg-Landau equations
Mon
Sep 25
4:10-5:00pm
Fields Inst.
Library
Joint Probability / Applied Mathematics Seminar
Paul Federbush (Ann Arbor):
A random walk on the permutation group, some formal long-time asymptotic expansions
Fri
Sept 29
12:10-1pm
BA 2195
Walid Abou Salem (University of Toronto):
Adiabatic theorems for quantum resonances
Fri
Oct 6
12:10-1pm
BA 2195
Walid Abou Salem (University of Toronto):
Large deviations for quantum systems out of equilibrium and a nonequilibrium central limit theorem
Fri
Oct 13
12:10-1pm
BA 2195
Young-Heon Kim (University of Toronto):
Determinants of Laplacians and isospectrality of compact surfaces with boundary.
Mon
Oct 16
2:10-3pm
BA 6183
Joint Symplectic / Applied Mathematics Seminar
Victor Ivrii (University of Toronto):
Magnetic Schrödinger Operator: Geometry, Classical and Quantum Dynamics and Spectral Asymptotics
Wed
Oct 18
2:10-3pm
Fields Library

3:10-4pm
Fields Library

Fields Institute Colloquium in Applied Mathematics
Jerry Bona (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Peter Maass (Bremen):
Inverse problems with sparsity constraints

Fri
Oct 20
12:10-1pm
BA 2195
Chongchun Zeng (Georgia Tech):
Hydrodynamical instabilities and energy estimates of free boundary problems for the Euler equation
Fri
Nov 3
12:10-1pm
BA 6183
Pierre Raphael (CNRS and Princeton):
Stable self similar blow up dynamics for some gravitational Vlasov-Poisson systems
Fri
Nov 10
12:10-1pm
BA 6183
Raphael Ponge (University of Toronto):
Hypoelliptic equations, Connes' noncommutative geometry and Fefferman's program
Wed
Nov 15
3:10-4pm
Fields Library
Cristina Draghici (Washington University in St. Louis):
Rearrangements on the unit circle
Fri
Nov 17
12:10-1pm
BA 6183
Oleg Bogoyavlenskij (Queens University):
Courant problems

Wed
Nov 29
3h10-4h00
Fields Library
Fields Institute Colloquium in Applied Mathematics
Avy Soffer (Rutgers University):
A new approach to solving dispersive wave equations by absorbing boundaries: Time Dependent Phase Space Filtering.
Fri
Dec 1
12:10-1pm
BA 6183
Marjolaine Puel (Toulouse and Rutgers):
A mass transport appraoch for the relativistic heat equation.
Thu
Dec 7
11h10-12h10
210 Fields
John Lott (University of Michigan):
On the work of Grigory Perelman
Thu
Dec 7
13h10-14h10
210 Fields
Izabella Laba (University of British Columbia):
Harmonic analysis and incidence geometry
Dec 8 12:10-1pm
BA 6183
Gigliola Staffilani (MIT):
Regularity of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations evolving from small data in BMO^{-1} .
Fri
Jan 12
12:10-1pm
BA 6183
3:10-4pm
BA 6183
Ciprian Demeter (UCLA):
Breaking the duality in the Return Times Theorem
Michael Brenner (Harvard):
Mathematical Issues in Self Assembly
Wed
Jan 17
3:10-4pm
Fields
Alexander Plakhov (University of Aveiro, Portugal):
Billiards, optimal mass transport and problems of optimal aerodynamic resistance
Wed
Jan 24
12:10-1pm
BA 6183
Silas Alben (Harvard)
Flows, bumps, and flexibility: fish fins, whale flippers, and more
Fri
Jan 26
12:10-1pm
BA 6183
Marianne Korten (Kansas State University):
On the Stefan and Hele-Shaw problems with a degenerate phase
Tu
Jan 30
4:10-5pw
BA 6183
Christan Stucchio (Rutgers)
Wed
Jan 31
12:10-1pm
BA 6183
Brian Street (Princeton)
Fri
Feb 2
11:10-noon
BA 6183

12:10-1pm
BA 6183

3:10-4 pm
TBA

Paul Wright (Courant Institute)
 

Doron Levy (Stanford)
Group Dynamics of Phototaxis: Interacting Stochastic Many-Particle Systems and their Continuum Limit

Frederic Rochon (SUNY Stony Brook)
 

Wed
Feb 7
3:10-4pm
Fields Institute
Andrei Biryuk (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal)
The Euler-Lagrange invariance of action minimizing measures satisfying a holonomy constraint
Th
Feb 8
11:10-12pm
Fields Institute
Juhi Jang (Brown)
Dynamics of Gaseous Stars
Fri
Feb 9
12:10-1pm
BA 6183
Adrian Butscher (Toronto)
New constructions of submanifolds of the sphere which are critical points of the volume functional
Mon
Feb 12
12:10-1pm
BA 6183
Jeremy Marzuola (UC Berkeley)
Stable perturbations of a minimal mass soliton for a saturated NLSE in 3d.
Wed
Feb 14
3:10-4pm
Fields Institute
Adam Oberman (Simon Fraser University)
The Infinity Laplacian: from classical analysis to image processing and random turn games
Fri
Feb 16
2:10-3pm
BA 6183
Joachim Krieger (Harvard University)
A new type of singularity formation in certain critical nonlinear wave equations
Fri
Feb 23
-/- Reading week
Fri
Mar 2
12:10-1pm
BA 2195
Luc Rey-Bellet (University of Massachusetts):
CANCELED
Thu
Mar 8
Fields
11:10-12:05
Alan Michael Hammond (Courant Institute)
Moment bounds and mass-conservation in PDE modelling coalescence.
Fri
Mar 9
12:10-1pm
BA 2195
Maciej Zworski
Slow soliton interaction with delta impurities.
Fri
Mar 16
12:10-1pm
BA 2195
 
Fri
Mar 23
12:10-1pm
BA 2195
Jeremie Szeftel (Princeton University)
Almost global existence for Hamiltonian semi-linear Klein-Gordon equations with small Cauchy data on Zoll manifolds
Fri
Mar 30
12:10-1pm
BA 2195
Ivana Alexandrova (East Carolina University)
The Spectral Function at a Maximum of the Potential
Wed
Apr 4
3:10-4pm
Fields
Wilfrid Gangbo (Georgia Institute of Technology):
Variational methods for the 1d Euler-Poisson system
Fri
Apr 6
-/-
Good Friday  
Wed
Apr 11
3:10-4pm
Fields
Sergiu I. Vacaru
Curve Flows, Riemann-Finsler Solitonic Hierarchies and Applications
Fri
Apr 13
Fields Institute Young Mathematicians' Conference in PDE and Dynamical Systems
Wed
May 23
2:10-3pm
6183 Bahen
Reidun Twarock
Mathematical Models for the Structure and Assembly of Viruses
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Previous years' seminars: 2006-07, 2005-06, 2004-05, 2003-04, 2002-03.