Minnesota PDE Seminar 
Spring 2011
Location: Vincent Hall 206
Time: Wednesdays, 3:35
Some talks may be given at different times/locations, as indicated below. See also the U of M Math Department's weekly seminar list for official announcements.  For questions about the seminar, please contact Peter Polacik: polacik"at"math.umn.edu


Date Speaker and title
Special Date:
Monday, January 24, 3:35 
(joint with Real Analysis)
VinH 570 
 Shuanglin Shao,  Institute for Mathematics and its Applications,
The two case studies of the oscillatory integrals
February 2
Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota,
Long-time behavior of the solutions of the 2d incompressible Euler
Special Date:
Monday, February 7, 3:35
(joint with Dynamical Systems)
VinH 570
Jeremy Marzuola,  University of North Carolina,
Long time dynamics near the symmetry breaking bifurcation for NLS/Gross-Pitaevskii Equations 
February 16
Mikhail Safonov, University of Minnesota,
The boundary Harnack principle for second order elliptic equations with unbounded drift 
February 23
 
Special Seminar:
Monday, February 28, 3:35
(joint with Dynamical Systems)
VinH 570

Piotr Mucha, University of Warsaw,
Inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations in critical functional framework
March 2
Matthias Kurzke, University of Bonn,
Vortex motion for the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with spin transfer torque 
March 9
Jill Pipher, Brown University,
Boundary value problems on Lipschitz and chord-arc domains 
March 16
SPRING BREAK
March 23
Katharine Ott, University of Kentucky,
The mixed boundary problem for the Laplacian in Lipschitz domains 
March 30
Bei Hu, University of Notre Dame,
Free boundary PDE problems modeling tumor growth
April 6
Daniel Spirn,  University of Minnesota,
Vortex liquids and the Ginzburg-Landau equations
April 13
Susanna Terracini, University of Milano-Bicocca,
Boundary singular solutions and connecting thin tubes
April 15-17
Riviere-Fabes Symposium on Analysis and PDE
April 20
Hirokazu Ninomiya, Meiji University, Tokyo,
Non-planar traveling waves of Allen-Cahn equations
April 27

Felix Otto, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig,
New estimates on the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation
May 4



Past seminars: Fall 2010. Spring 2010Fall 2009. Spring 2009. Fall 2008. Spring 2008. Fall 2007 . Spring 2007 . Fall 2006 . Spring 2006 . Fall 2005 . Winter/Spring 2005 . Fall 2004 . Winter/Spring 2004 . Fall 2003 . Winter/Spring 2003