PDE/Applied Math/Analysis Seminars 2007-2008
PDE/Applied Math/Analysis Seminars 2007-2008
Of related interest in Toronto (and often cross-listed):
Fields Institute Colloquium/Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Fields Analysis with Geometry Seminar.
The seminar meets regulary on
Fridays, 1:10-2pm, 6183 Bahen Center.
Pre-seminar lunch 12:10-1pm in Sylvester's Café
(Graduate Student Union, 16 Bancroft Ave., upstairs).
For more information, please contact one of the organizers:
Almut Burchard
(almut @math),
Robert McCann
(mccann @math),
Walid Abou-Salem
(walid @math).
jump to next talk * denotes tentative
Date |
Time/Place |
Speaker/Title |
| Fri Sep 7 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 |
Pavel Lushnikov (University of New Mexico):
Singularity formation in hydrodynamics, nonlinear optics and biology. |
|
Fri Sep 21 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 |
Tadahiro Oh (University of Toronto)
Diophantine conditions in the well-posedness theory of a coupled KdV-type system and its invariant Gibbs measure. |
|
Fri Sep 28 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 |
Joseph Fu (University of Georgia)
Lagrangian currents and geometry: facts, conjectures, questions . |
| Wed Oct 3 |
3:10-4pm 203 Fields |
Fields Institute Colloquium/Seminar in Applied Mathematics Michel Chipot (University of Zürich) Exponential rate of convergence for the solution of elliptic problems in strips. |
| Mon Oct 8 |
-/- | Thanksgiving |
| Wed Oct 10 |
3:10-4pm 203 Fields |
Fields Institute Colloquium/Seminar in Applied Mathematics Robert McPherson (IAS, Princeton) The geometry of grains |
| Fri Oct 12 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 |
Luc Rey-Bellet
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Large deviations in hyperbolic billiards. |
| Wed Oct 17 |
3:10-4pm 203 Fields |
Fields Institute Colloquium/Seminar in Applied Mathematics Weinan E (Princeton University) Mathematical theory of solids: From atomic to macroscopic scales |
| Fri Oct 19 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 |
Walid Abou-Salem (University of Toronto) Long-time dynamics of solitons in the presence of rough nonlinear perturbations |
| Fri Oct 26 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 |
Eitan Tadmor (University of Maryland) Critical thresholds in Eulerian dynamics . |
| Wed Oct 31 |
3:10-4pm 203 Fields |
Fields Institute Colloquium/Seminar in Applied Mathematics Jun Zhang (Courant Insititute) Free-moving boundaries interacting with thermal convective fluids |
| Fri Nov 2 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 |
Abdeslem Lyaghfouri (Fields Institute) A minimum problem with free boundary for the p(x)-Laplace operator |
|
Fri Nov 9 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 |
David Lannes (CNRS Bordeaux
and McMaster University)
Modified Schrödinger equations for short pulses. |
| Tue Nov 13 |
2:10-3pm Fields |
Fields Institute Colloquium/Seminar in Applied Mathematics Isom Herron (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) A new look at the principle of exchange of stabilities |
| Tue Nov 13 |
3:10-4pm Fields |
Fields Institute Colloquium/Seminar in Applied Mathematics Laurette Tuckerman (University of Pierre and Marie Curie) Patterns in Turbulence |
|
Fri Nov 16 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 |
Al Baernstein (Washington University in St. Louis) Moment inequalities for equilibrium measures in the plane. |
| Fri Nov 23 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 |
Maciej Zworski (University of California, Berkeley) Local smoothing in the presence of lots of trapping. |
| Fri Nov 30 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 |
Huaxiong Huang
(York University) Extensional Flows of Viscous Threads |
|
Tue Dec 11 |
10:30am BA 6183
11:30am
2:10pm |
Toronto Minisymposium:
Calculus of
Variations in Physics, Geometry and Economics
David Jerison (MIT)
Niky Kamran (McGill)
William Minicozzi (Johns Hopkins) |
| Thu Jan 10 |
4:10-5pm BA 6183 |
Per-Gunnar Martinsson (University of Colorado)
Matrix factorizations and randomized sampling |
| Fri Jan 11 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 |
Per-Gunnar Martinsson (University of Colorado)
Fast numerical methods for solving linear PDEs |
|
Thu Jan 17 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 | Spyros Alexakis Minimal surfaces in hyperbolic space and re-normalization of area |
| Fri Jan 18 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 | Spyros Alexakis The decomposition of global conformal invariants: On a conjecture of Deser and Schwimmer |
| Wed Jan 23 |
3:10-4pm Fields |
Fields Institute Colloquium/Seminar in Applied Mathematics Reinhard Illner (University of Victoria) From Fokker-Planck type kinetic traffic models tostop-and-go waves in dense traffic |
| Thu Jan 24 |
4:10-5pm BA 6183 |
Allesandro Pizzo (ETH Zurich) Simple problems in quantum mechanics |
| Fri Jan 25 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 |
Allesandro Pizzo (ETH Zurich) Multi-scale methods in atomic physics |
| Wed Feb 6 |
3:10-4pm Fields |
Fields Institute Colloquium/Seminar in Applied Mathematics Kehinde Ladipo (University of Houston) Finite Element Analysis of Fluid motion in Conical Diffusers |
| Fri Feb 8 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 |
Carolyn Salafia (NYU Medical Center) The placenta: a random fractal with implications for human health |
| Fri Feb 8 |
3:10-4pm BA 6183 |
Maciej Zworski (University of California, Berkeley) Soliton dynamics and symplectic geometry |
|
Fri Feb 15 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 | Eugene Kritchevski, McGill University Poisson statistics of eigenvalues for random discrete Schrödinger operators |
| Feb 18-22 | - / - | Reading week |
|
Wed Feb 27 |
2pm-3pm Fields |
Fields Institute Colloquium/Seminar in Applied Mathematics Jerry Bona (University of Illinois at Chicago) TBA |
|
Fri Mar 7 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 | Sergei Kuksin (Ecole Polytechnique, France) Eulerian limit for randomly forced 2D Navier-Stokes equations |
| Wed Mar 12 |
3:10-4pm Fields |
Fields Institute Colloquium/Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Horng-Tzer Yau (Harvard University) TBA |
| Fri Mar 14 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 | Steven Dejak (University of Toronto)
On Blowup in the Keller-Segel model of Chemotaxis |
|
Wed Mar 19 |
3:10-4pm Fields |
Fields Institute Colloquium/Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Govind Menon (Brown University) Min-driven Coarsening |
| Wed Mar 19 |
5:10-6pm BA 6183 | Thomas Chen (University of Texas, Austin) On the quantum dynamics of an electron in a random medium |
| Fri Mar 21 |
- / - | Good Friday |
| Fri Mar 28 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 | Ivana Alexandrova (East Carolina University) Semi-Classical Resolvent Estimates at the Maximum of the Potential |
|
Fri Apr 4 |
1:10-2pm BA 6183 |
Carlo Morpurgo (University of Missouri, Columbia) Sharp Moser-Trudinger and Beckner-Onofri's inequalities on the CR sphere |
| Fri May 30 |
2-3pm BA 6183 | Stefan Valdimarsson (UCLA) Multilinear fractional itegration and Hilbert transform |
| Tue June 24 |
11:10am-12pm Fields |
Fields Institute Colloquium/Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Jim Hill (University of Wollongong) Geometry and mechanics of carbon nanotubes and gigahertz nano-oscillators |
|
Wed Aug 13 |
11:10-12:00 Fields |
Fields Analysis Working Group
Jochen Denzler (University of Tennessee) Spectral theory and convergence rates for the fast diffusion equation in weighted Hoelder spaces |