School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
PDE Seminar

  Fall 2011

All talks are on Wednesdays in Vincent Hall 206 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 Mikhail Safonov: safonov"at"math.umn.edu


Date Speaker and title Host
September 7
No seminar

September 14
Peter Polacik , School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota.
Nonnegative solutions of elliptic equations on symmetric domains and their nodal structure

September 21
Ariel Barton , School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota.
Elliptic Partial Differential Equations with Almost-Real Coefficients

September 28
No seminar (IMA Workshop)

October 5
Mikhail Safonov , School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota.
Boundary properties of solutions to second order equations on non-smooth domains
October 12
Hoai Minh Nguyen , School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota.
Estimates for the topological degree

October 19
Richard D. James, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota.
An invariant manifold of molecular dynamics and its macroscopic realization
Vladimir Sverak
October 26


November 2
Steve Hofmann , University of Missouri.
Harmonic Measure and Uniform Rectifiability
Svitlana Mayboroda
November 9
Peter Olver , School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota.
Dispersive Quantization

November 16
Konstantin Oskolkov , University of South Carolina.
On Schrödinger type equations with periodic initial data
Svitlana Mayboroda
November 23


November 30
Luca Capogna, IMA, University of Minnesota.
An extremal problem in quasiconformal mappings from a PDE point of view

December 7
Marcel Filoche, Directeur de Recherche CNRS, Physique de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Polytechnique.
The hidden landscape of localization
Svitlana Mayboroda
December 14




Past seminars: Spring 2011. Fall 2010. Spring 2010. Fall 2009. Spring 2009. Fall 2008. Spring 2008. Fall 2007 . Spring 2007 . Fall 2006 . Spring 2006 . Fall 2005 . Spring 2005 . Fall 2004 . Spring 2004 . Fall 2003 . Spring 2003