School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
PDE Seminar

  Fall 2012

All talks are on Wednesdays in Vincent Hall 002 at 3:35 pm, unless noted otherwise. If you have any questions about a particular seminar, please contact the speaker's host. For general questions about the seminar, please contact Dmitriy Bilyk: dbilyk"at"math.umn.edu



Date Speaker and title Host
September 5
2013 Riviere-Fabes Symposium committee meeting (3:30 pm, Vincent Hall 215)
Vladimir Sverak
September 12
Geordie Richards, IMA
Invariance of the Gibbs measure for the periodic quartic KdV.
Markus Keel
September 19
Svitlana Mayboroda , University of Minnesota
Well-posedness in L^p for elliptic boundary value problems.

September 26
IMA workshop "Dynamical Systems in Studies of Partial Differential Equations", September 24-28, 2012
during seminar time: Philippe Souplet, Université de Paris XIII (Paris-Nord)
Nondegeneracy of blow-up points for the parabolic Keller-Segel System
Peter Polacik
October 3
Luca Capogna, IMA
Sub-Riemannian heat kernels, heat content and mean curvature flow of graphs.

October 10
Hans Weinberger, University of Minnesota
The retreat of the less fit allele in a population-controlled model for population genetics. ( click here for slides)

October 17
Igor Chueshov, Kharkov National University, Ukraine
On some PDE models arising in gas/fluid-structure interaction.

October 24
David Sattinger, University of Arizona
Gravitation and Special Relativity.
Peter Olver
October 31
Nathan Totz, Duke University
A rigorous justification of the modulation approximation to the 2D full water wave problem.
Daniel Spirn
November 7
Jeremy Marzuola, University of North Carolina
Dispersive equations on (and outside) polygons.
Daniel Spirn
November 14
Arnd Scheel, University of Minnesota
Spinodal decomposition and coarsening fronts in the Cahn-Hilliard equation

November 21


November 28
Chongchun Zeng, Georgia Institute of Technology
Small BGK waves and Landau damping

December 5


December 12
Wenqing Hu, University of Maryland
Second order elliptic equations with a small parameter
Vladimir Sverak
December 19





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