Minnesota PDE Seminar 
Fall 2004
Location: Vincent Hall 207
Time: Wednesdays, 3:35 pm




Some of the speakers may arrange to speak at different times/locations.
See the U of M Math Department's weekly seminar list for official announcements. 
Sep 15 Jack Hale , Georgia Tech, "Regularity of dissipative flows on compact invariant sets " [abstract]
ATTENTION!
FRIDAY Sept 17 -
Sunday Sept 19th
Yamabe Memorial Symposium, Organized by R. Gulliver, C. Leung, T.J. Li, and J. Wang
Sept 22 Michael Goldberg ; Caltech, "Dispersive estimates for the three-dimensional Schroedinger equation", [abstract]
Tuesday, Sept 28
**SPECIAL DAY**
4:30 in Room VH 16
P.L. Lions "From molecules to nonlinear elasticity: a mathematical journey" (Ordway Lecture I)
Wednesday, Sept 29
**Special Time**
4:30 in Room Vincent 16
P.L. Lions "New problems in Control and Differential Games arising in Finance" (Ordway Lecture II)
Thursday, Sept 30,
**SPECIAL DAY**
3:30 in Room VH 16
P.L. Lions "Convexity and parabolic equations" (Ordway Lecture III)
Oct 6 Hongjie Dong , University of Minnesota, "About an example suggested by H. Weinberger", [abstract]
Oct. 13 Douglas Wright , University of Minnesota, "Ground State Mass Concentration for L^2 Critical NLS below H^1 " [abstract]
Oct 20 Roger Lui , Worcester Polytechnic Institute, " Moving Boundary Problem Arising in a Cell Motility Model", [abstract]
Oct 27
**NOTE SPECIAL TIME**
4:30, VH 207
Xiaofeng Ren ,IMA and Utah State University, "The Ohta-Kawasaki equation of diblock copolymers", [abstract]
Nov 3 Xuefeng Wang, IMA and Tulane University, " Estimating the effectiveness of anisotropic insulators", [abstract]
Nov 10 Daniel Spirn , University of Minnesota, " Almost linear growth of some classical Euler flows", [abstract]
Monday, Nov. 15
**NOTE THE TIME **
**NOTE THE PLACE ***
4:30, Vincent 16
Avner Friedman, Math Department and Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State, "Bifurcation and asymptotic stability of free boundary problems", [abstract] (JOINT WITH APPLIED MATH AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR)
Nov 17 Pavol Quittner , Institute of Applied Mathematics, Comenius University, "Complete and energy blow-up in superlinear parabolic problems", [abstract]
Nov 24 No Seminar (Thanksgiving Holiday Week)
Dec 1 Zhi-Qiang Wang , IMA and Utah State University, "Symmetry of extremal functions for weighted Sobolev inequalities", [abstract]
Dec. 8 Mads Kyed , Aachen University of Technology "Travelling wave solutions of the heat equation in an unbounded cylinder with a nonlinear boundary condition" [abstract]
Monday, Dec. 13
**NOTE THE TIME: Joint PDE/REAL Analysis Seminar **
**NOTE THE PLACE ***
4:30, Vincent 211
Inwon Kim , MIT, "The Regularity and Speed of the Hele-Shaw Problem" [abstract]
Tuesday, Dec. 14
**NOTE THE TIME **
**NOTE THE PLACE ***
4:35, Vincent 364
Philippe LeFloch , (CNRS and Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions (Paris VI)), " Entropy solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic systems" [abstract]
Wednesday, Dec. 15
**NOTE THE TIME **
**NOTE THE PLACE ***
4:30, Vincent 313
Marta Lewicka , University of Chicago, " Well-Posedness of Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws with Large Data." [abstract]


Previous Semesters:

Fall 2004
Winter/Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Winter/Spring 2003