School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
PDE Seminar

Fall 2007

All talks are on Wednesdays in Vincent Hall 570 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 Marta Lewicka (lewicka*at*math.umn.edu).


Date Speaker and title Host
September 12 Professor Vladimir Sverak , University of Minnesota
On Landau solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations
September 19 Professor Maria Giovanna Mora , International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Italy and IMA
Convergence of equilibria of thin elastic beams
September 26 Professor Nina Uraltseva , St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Two-phase parabolic free boundary value problem
Nicolai Krylov
October 3 Professor Marek Fila , Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
Large time behaviour of solutions of a semilinear heat equation with a supercritical nonlinearity
Peter Polacik
October 10 Professor Daniel Spirn , University of Minnesota
Asymptotic of the Chern-Simons-Higgs energy
October 17 Professor Peter W. Bates, Michigan State University and IMA
Nucleation of Instability of the Meissner State of 3-Dimensional Superconductors
October 24 Professor Dehua Wang , University of Pittsburgh
Shock waves and transonic flows for the Euler equations
Marta Lewicka
October 31 Professor Diego Maldonado , Kansas State University
Monge-Ampere techniques for quasi-conformal mappings
Vladimir Sverak
November 7 Professor Mitchell Luskin , University of Minnesota
Deterministic dynamical systems for sampling the canonical ensemble
November 14 Professor Luca Rondi , University of Trieste, Italy and University of Minnesota
Unique continuation in partially known domains by variational methods
November 21 Professor Fedor Nazarov , University of Wisconsin
On radial multipliers for L^p spaces in high dimensions
Vladimir Sverak
November 28 Professor Zhiwu Lin , University of Missouri-Columbia
Unstable surface water waves
Vladimir Sverak
December 5 Professor Mikhail Feldman , University of Wisconsin
Existence and regularity of solutions to regular shock reflection problem
Marta Lewicka
December 12 Professor Mikhail Safonov , University of Minnesota
Boundary estimates for second order elliptic equations


Past seminars: Spring 2007 . Fall 2006 . Spring 2006 . Fall 2005 . Winter/Spring 2005 . Fall 2004 . Winter/Spring 2004 . Fall 2003 . Winter/Spring 2003