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 Prairie Analysis Seminar 2007


Regsitration and all breaks will be in Cardwell 121.
  Friday talks will be in Cardwell 146, Cardwell 145, and Burt 114.
All Saturday talks will be in Cardwell 103.

Friday November 2
TIME SPEAKER TALK TITLE
12:00-12:25 Registration 
12:25-12:30 Welcome remarks
12:30-12:50
 		 1.Maxim Trokhimtchouk
U. of Calif., Berkeley
Everywhere regularity of ceratin nonlinear diffusion systems - Cardwell 146
12:55-1:15
 		 2. Benjamin Stephens
University of Toronto
 Thread-wire surfaces: Near-wire minimizers and topological finiteness - Cardwell 146
1:20-1:40
 		 3. Luis Silvestre
Courant Institute, NYU
Lower dimensional obstacle problems and the fractional Laplacian - Cardwell 145
1:45-2:05
 		 4. Eduardo Teixeira
Rutgers University
 Optimal design problems in rough inhomogeneous media - Cardwell 145
2:20-3:20
 		 Luis Caffarelli
Univ. of Texas, Austin
  Fully nonlinear equations with integral diffusions I - Burt 114 talks start here
3:20-3:40 Tea time
3:40-4:40
 		 Daniel Phillips
Purdue University
Modeling and stability for bent-core liquid crystal molecules
4:55-5:15
  		5. Monica Torres
Purdue University
Removable singularities of divergence free vectors and related equations with measure data
5:20-5:40

 6. Sarah Raynor
Wake Forest University
Neumann fixed boundary regularity for an elliptic free boundary problem
5:45-6:05
 7. Young-Heon Kim
University of Toronto
 Curvature and continuity of optimal transport
6:10-6:30
  		8. Netra Khanal
Oklahoma State Univ.
The Kawahara equations in weighted Sobolev spaces
8:00 - ... After-dinner party at Marianne's home


Saturday November 3
TIME SPEAKER TALK TITLE
7:30-8:00
 Breakfast in the math lounge
8:00-8:20
 9. Tejinder Neelon
Cal. State Univ. San Marcos
 Restrictions of formal power series and infinitely differentiable functions to algebraic surfaces
8:25-8:45
  		10. Dan Volok
Kansas State University
 Rational solutions of the Schlesinger system and related tau-functions
8:50-9:10
  		11. Ignacio Uriarte-Tuero
Univ. of Missouri, Columbia
 Sharp non-removability examples for BMO and Hoelder quasiregular mappings
9:15-9:35
  		12. Chun-Yen Shen
Indiana university
 An explicit sum product estimate in Fp
9:40-10:00
  		13. Matthew Wright
Univ. of Missouri, Columbia
 Mixed boundary value problems for the Stokes system
10:00-10:20 Coffee break
10:20-10:40
  		14. Thomas Laurent
UCLA
Local existence, global existence, and blow-up for an aggregation equation
10:45-11:05
  		15. Lotfi Hermi
U. of Arizona
 Improved universal Weyl-type bounds for eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian
11:10-11:30
  		16. Ray Treinen
Kansas State University
 Numerical results for floating drops
11:35-11:55

 17. Peiyong Wang
Wayne State University
 The normalized infinity Laplacian
11:55-1:00 Lunch provided by the Department of Mathematics
1:00-1:20
 18. Petronela Radu
U. of Nebraska, Lincoln
 Decay rates for wave eqautions with linear damping and variable coefficients
1:25-1:45
 		 19.Phuc Cong Nguyen
Purdue University
 Quasilinear and Hessian equations with power source terms and rough data
1:50-2:10
 		 20. Thomasz Adamowicz
Syracuse University
 On the geometry of p-harmonics
2:15-3:15
 		 Luis Caffarelli
University of Texas, Austin
  Fully nonlinear equations with integral diffusions II
3:15-3:40 Tea time
3:40-4:40
 		 Antoine Mellet
Univ. of Britisch Columbia
 Hele-Shaw flows and obstacle problems: Application to random homogeneization
4:45-5:05
  		21. Aslihan Demirkaya
University of Kansas 		Existence of global attractor for a periodic Kuramoto-Sivashinsky type equation in space dimension two
5:10-5:30
  		22. Lianwen Wang
Univ. of Central Missouri 		Optimal control of delay differential inclusions in infinite dimensional spaces
5:30 -
 Discussion - Open Problems

 
  


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