School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
PDE Seminar

Spring 2008

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 Wei-Ming Ni.


Date Speaker and title Host
January 23 Professor Aobing Li, University of Wisconsin, Madison
A Liouville type theorem for some conformally invariant fully nonlinear equations
Robert Gulliver
January 30 Professor Dong Ye, University of Cergy Pontoise, Paris, France
Nonradial solutions for a conformally invariant fourth order equation in R^4
Wei-Ming Ni
February 1 - Friday
SPECIAL DATE
Professor Luis Silvestre , Courant Institute
Markus Keel
February 6 Professor F. Zhou, East China normal University, Shanghai, China
Singular positive solutions for some semilinear elliptic problems
Wei-Ming Ni
February 13 Professor Noriko Mizoguchi, Tokyo Gakugei University
Blowup rate of type II and the braid group theory
Peter Polacik
February 20 Professor Stefan Mueller
Regularity in thin film magnetism
Vladimir Sverak
February 27 Professor Yong Jung Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Fundamental solutions of a conservation law without convexity
Wei-Ming Ni
March 5 Professor Michael Westdickenberg , Georgia Institute of Technology
Optimal transport for the system of isentropic Euler equations
Marta Lewicka
March 10 - Monday
SPECIAL DATE
Professor Kevin Zumbrun , Indiana University
Stability of noncharacteristic boundary layers
Marta Lewicka
March 12 Professor Robert Jerrard , University of Toronto
On multiwell Liouville theorems in arbitrary dimensions
Daniel Spirn
March 26 Professor Eiji Yanagida, University of Tokyo
Singular solutions of a semilinear heat equation
Peter Polacik
April 2 Professor Grozdena Todorova, University of Tennessee
The critical exponent problem for nonlinear wave equations with space dependent potential
James Serrin
April 9 Professor M. Taniguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Pyramidal traveling fronts in the Allen-Cahn equations
Wei-Ming Ni
April 14 - Monday, 4:40 PM (NOTE: SPECIAL DATE & TIME)
JOINT REAL ANALYSIS / PDE SEMINAR
Fang Li, University of Minnesota
Stable transition layers for an inhomogeneous Allen-Cahn equation and related topics
Walter Littman
April 21 - Monday, 4:40 PM (NOTE: SPECIAL DATE & TIME)
JOINT REAL ANALYSIS / PDE SEMINAR
Alexander Korolev, University of Minnesota
On the large-distance asymptotics of solutions of the 3D steady states Navier-Stokes equations in exterior domains
Walter Littman
April 23 Professor Yuan Lou, the Ohio State University
Principal eigenvalue of an elliptic operator with large advection and evolution of dispersal
Wei-Ming Ni
April 30 Professor Wilfrid Gangbo , Georgia Institute of Technology
The one-dimensional Euler-Poisson system
Vladimir Sverak
May 7 Professor Matteo Focardi, Florence
Homogenization of free-discontinuity energies in periodically perforated domains
Vladimir Sverak


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