School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
PDE Seminar

  Fall 2008

All talks are on Wednesdays in Vincent Hall 364 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 Peter Polacik.


Date Speaker and title Host
September 3
special room: 570
Xingbin Pan, East China Normal University, Instability of Meissner State of Anisotropic Superconductors
Wei-Ming Ni
September 10


September 17
Xuefeng Wang, Tulane University, Estimating the effectiveness of anisotropic insulators Wei-Ming Ni
September 24


October 1
Hiroshi Matano, University of Tokyo, Preservation of ergodicity in nonlinear evolution equations and its applications
Peter Polacik
October 8
Dirk Hundertmark, University of Illinois and IMA, Regularity and decay properties of dispersion management solitons
Markus Keel
October 15
Francisco Gancedo, University of Chicago,  Existence for the alpha-patch model and the QG sharp front in Sobolev spaces
Vladimir Sverak
Special day and time:
Monday, October 20, 4:30
usual room (364)
 Sijue Wu, University of Michigan,  Almost global wellposedness of the 2-D full water wave problem
Markus Keel
October 29
Alberto Farina, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne,  Symmetry for overdetermined elliptic boundary value problems in bounded and unbounded domains
James Serrin
November 5
Arnd Scheel, University of Minnesota, Diffusive synchronization of oscillations

November 12
Maria Esteban, Universite Paris-Dauphine and the IMA, Symmetry results for minimizers of the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities and their relation with Onofri's inequality
Peter Polacik
November 19
Chun Liu, Penn State University and the IMA,  Energetic Variational Approaches: Free Interface Motions in Fluids & Viscoelasticity Markus Keel
November 26
Thanksgiving Week

Special seminar,
joint with Real Analysis.
Monday, December 1,  usual room (364)
Lihe Wang, University of Iowa, Estimates for elliptic equations in quasi-convex domains
Markus Keel
December 3
Nicolai Krylov, University of Minnesota,  A new development in the theory of second-order elliptic and parabolic equations with rough coefficients

December 10
Mikhail Safonov, University of Minnesota,  Non-divergence elliptic equations of second order with singular drift



Past seminars: 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