Notable Activities of the Faculty
Some of our colleagues have been kind enough to update us on their recent activities. We know that many of our other colleagues have significant achievements and we hope to report on those in future newsletters.
During the month of April 2005 Professor Douglas Arnold gave a series of lectures, in connection with the 2005 Mathematics Awareness Month and the centenary of Einstein’s famous 1905 papers, on the subject of “Math and the Cosmos: The New Mathematical Gravitational Astronomy”. The lectures include the William Marshall Bullitt Lecture at the University of Louisville and the Lonseth Lecture at Oregon State.
Professor Sergey Bobkov was organizer and chair of the session “Concentration Inequalities” at the 6th World Bernoulli Congress on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics held in Barcelona, Spain, July 26-31, 2005.
Professor Mark Keel gave an invited Mini Course at the Summer School and Workshop on Nonlinear Wave Equations, co-sponsored by the Wolfgang Pauli Institute and the Erwin Schroedinger Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna during July 2004. He also gave invited lectures on nonlinear waves at a number of conferences in Europe and North America.
Professor Walter Littman is a co-organizer of a conference on Control Methods in PDE-Dynamical Systems to be held in Snowbird (Utah), July 3-7, 2005. The conference is intended for two distinct research communities in partial differential equations (PDE): (1) the PDE-control community, which is focused on the study of control-theoretic properties of PDEs (e.g., well-posedness, interior and boundary regularity, controllability, stabilization, and optimization); and (2) the PDE-dynamical systems community, which is focused on the long-time behavior of solutions (e.g., global attractors and their geometric, topological, and structural properties). The main goal is to develop mutual stimulation and joint interactions betweenresearchers in these two areas. For more information see Notices of the A.M.S., Nov. 2004, p.1296.
Professor Peter Polacik was a co-organizer of a special session ”Qualitative Studies on Parabolic and Elliptic Equations” at the AIMS’ Fifth International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations in Pomona, California, June 16 - 19, 2004. Asymptotics (in a broad sense), blow up, and geometric properties, were among the issues considered. He is organizing a minisymposium “Qualitative Studies in Parabolic Equations” at EQUADIFF 11, an international conference on differential equations, to be held in Bratislava, Slovakia, July 25 - 29, 2005. He is also a co-organizer of a conference on “Infinite dimensional dynamical systems”, in honor of the 70th birthday of P. Brunovsky, to be held at Luminy, France, July 4 - 8, 2005. This conference will be devoted to dynamics in infinite dimensions, with special emphasis on problems related to partial differential equations.
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