School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
PDE Seminar

  Fall 2009

All talks are on Wednesdays in Vincent Hall 6 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 Daniel Spirn: spirn@math.umn.edu


Date Speaker and title Host
September 9
Marta Lewicka, University of Minnesota, Scaling laws for non-Euclidean plate models derived from incompatible elasticity                          
September 16
Nina Uraltseva, St. Petersburg State University, The maximum principle and related topics N. Krylov
September 23
Gregory Seregin, Oxford University, TBA V. Sverak
September 30
Nina Uraltseva, St. Petersburg State University, On the regularity of free boundaries in obstacle-type problems N. Krylov
October 7
Charles Doering, University of Michigan, Twist & Shout: Maximal enstrophy production in the 3D Navier-Stokes equations D. Spirn
October 14
Ian Tice, Brown University, Ginzburg-Landau vortex dynamics driven by an applied boundary current D. Spirn
October 21
Hans Weinberger, University of Minnesota, Spreading properties of quasi-cooperative systems
of reaction diffusion equations

October 28
Shuanglin Shao, University of Minnesota, Existence of extremals for a Fourier restriction inequality for $S^2$
November 4
Michael Weinstein, Columbia University, Dynamics of solitons in non-homogeneous media
D. Spirn
November 11
Changyou Wang, University of Kentucky, Hydrodynamic flow of nematic liquid crystals in dimension two D. Spirn
November 18

November 25
Thanksgiving

December 2
Svetlana Roudenko, Arizona State University, TBA V. Sverak
December 9
Ming Chen, University of Minnesota, TBA


Past seminars: 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