Minnesota PDE Seminar 
SPRING 2006
Location: Vincent 2 (Note: New Room this Semester)
Time: 3:35 - 4:35




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. 
January 20th
3:35, VH570
O. Savin , Berkeley;"C^{1,\alpha} regularity for infinity harmonic functions in the plane"
January 25th. Vladimir Markovic , Warwick, " The heat flow for harmonic maps between hyperbolic spaces, and applications ", [abstract]
Feb 1
Feb 8
Feb 15th Peter Polacik , Minnesota , " Asymptotic symmetry of positive solutions of parabolic equations on bounded domains "
Feb 22nd Huiqiang Jiang , Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor, U of M , " A priori estimates of stationary solutions of an activator-inhibitor system ", [abstract]
March 1 James Serrin , Minnesota , " Symmetry of solutions of quasilinear elliptic equations "
Monday, March 6th
**NOTE THE DAY**
**place TBA ***
3:35
Stefan Mueller, Leipzig , , "Convergence of equilibria of planar thin elastic beam"
March 8th Kazunaga Tanaka , Waseda University, " High frequency solutions for 1D NLS ", [abstract]
March 15th SPRING BREAK
March 22nd Laszlo Szekelyhidi, ETH Zurich , " Compactness, Tartar's conjecture, and the structure of quasiconvex hulls ", [abstract]
Monday, March 27th
**NOTE THE DAY**
**place Vincent 301 **
4:35 **NOTE TIME!!**
Bernd Kirchheim, Oxford , " Universal singular sets and pure unrectifiablity" (Joint with Real Analysis Seminar)
March 29th Kimie Nakashima , Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology , "Generation and propagation of interface to a competition-diffusion system with very large competition rate",
April 5th Henri Berestycki , Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre d'Analyse et de Mathematique Sociale, **POSTPONED TO APRIL 17**
"Asymptotic speed of spreading for KPP type equations in general domains"
April 12th Isabelle Gallagher , Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu (Paris VII) , " A class of global solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations for large data ",
Wednesday, April 13th
**PDE Related Talk in Department Colloquium**
**place Vincent 16 **
3:35 **NOTE DAY and TIME**
Mikhail Safonov, Minnesota , "Boundary and asymptotic behavior of L-harmonic functions in non-smooth domains" [abstract]
**POSTPONED***
Monday, April 17th
**NOTE THE DAY**
Vincent 570 (**NOTE ROOM: Joint with Dynamical Systems ***)
3:35
George Sell, Minnesota , , "On the foundations of oceanic dynamics"
Monday, April 17th
**NOTE THE DAY**
**place Vincent 301 **
4:35 **NOTE TIME!! (JOINT W' REAL ANALYSIS)**
Henri Berestycki , Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre d'Analyse et de Mathematique Sociale,
"Principal eigenvalue of an elliptic operator with large drift and applications" (Joint with Real Analysis Seminar)
April 19th Stefan Hildebrandt, University of Bonn , " Plateau's problem for Cartan functionals--- regularity " , [abstract]
(This seminar is self-contained. See April 13th Geometry Seminar for a related talk.)
April 26th Jaeyoung Byeon, Pohang University of Science and Technology, " Spike layer solutions of singularly perturbed nonlinear ellptic problems with a general nonlinearity", [abstract]
May 3rd Nicholas Alikakos, University of North Texas, " The Connection Problem for Potentials with Several Global Minima".




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