Wednesday, April 8, 2009. Minnesota PDE seminar

Speaker: Professor Daniel Spirn, University of Minnesota.

Title:  Dynamics of Ginzburg-Landau vortices in a mixed flow.

Abstract:  We consider the dynamics of vortices in a Gross-Pitaevskii equation of mixed type 
with both parabolic and Schrodinger terms. This equation arises in two situations; 
explaining the quantum Hall effect in Type II superconductors and the description of dynamics 
of vortex dislocations in micromagnetics.  Under the limit of a large coupling constant, 
vortices condense down to points and satisfy a first order ODE. 
This is joint work with M. Kurzke, C. Melcher, and R. Moser. 

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