School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
PDE Seminar

  Spring 2009

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 Mikhail Safonov: safonov@math.umn.edu


Date Speaker and title Host
January 21
No seminar

January 28
Peter Polacik , University of Minnesota, Parabolic Liouville theorems and their applications

February 4
Bennett Chow , UCSD, Some technical open problems on certain geometric flows
Jiaping Wang
February 11
Jiaping Wang , University of Minnesota, Massive sets and disjoint minimal graphs

February 18
Yujin Guo , University of Minnesota, Partial Differential Equations Arising from Electrostatic MEMS

February 25
James Serrin, University of Minnesota, Entire solutions of completely coercive quasilinear elliptic equations: generalization of a result of Brezis

March 4

Bernd Kirchheim , Universität Düsseldorf, Another look at Ornstein's L1-noninequalities
Vladimir Sverak
March 11
Nicolai Krylov, University of Minnesota, A few theorems on the solvability in usual Holder and Sobolev spaces for elliptic and parabolic equations with growing first-order coefficients

March 18
SPRING BREAK

March 25
Stefan Müller, University of Bonn, Singular kernels, multiscale decomposition of microstructure, and dislocation models
Vladimir Sverak
April 1
Markus Keel , University of Minnesota, Resonant decompositions and almost conservation laws for dispersive PDE in higher dimensions

April 8
Daniel Spirn , University of Minnesota, Dynamics of Ginzburg-Landau vortices in a mixed flow

April 15
Thierry Gallay, Universite de Grenoble I, Spectral and pseudospectral estimates for a semiclassical non-selfadjoint operator arising in fluid mechanics
Peter Polacik, Arnd Scheel
Special Date & Time: Monday, April 20, VinH 570, 4:40 pm
Vera Mikyoung Hur, M.I.T., Dispersive properties of surface water waves
Markus Keel
April 22
Ermanno Lanconelli, Universita di Bologna, A sphere theorem for a class of Reinhardt domains with constant Levi curvature

April 29
Pierre Germain, Courant Institute, NYU, Global Existence for Nonlinear Dispersive Equation
Vladimir Sverak
Special Date & Time: Monday, May 4, VinH 570, 4:40 pm
Orazio Arena, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Pucci's conjecture on a priori estimates for elliptic PDE and a related variational problem

May 6
Pablo Pedregal, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, On a non-linear PDE arising in optimal design
Vladimir Sverak


Past seminars: 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