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1992 Fall Western Section Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, November 7-8, 1992
Meeting #877

Associate secretaries:
Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu

Special Session on Nonlinear Hyperbolic PDE and Fluid Mechanics

  • Saturday November 7, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Nonlinear Hyperbolic PDE and Fluid Mechanics, I

    Room 145, Kaprielian Hall

    • 8:30 a.m.
      Nonexistence of breathers.
      Bj\"orn Birnir*, University of California, Santa Barbara
      (877-35-60)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Singularity formation for complex solutions of the 3D Euler equations.
      Russel E. Caflisch*, University of California, Los Angeles
      (877-35-61)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Nonlinear waves in bubbly fluids.
      John K. Hunter*, University of California, Davis
      Kan Tan, University of California, Davis
      (877-35-74)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      A kinetic theory for bubbly flow.
      Peter Smereka*, University of California, Los Angeles
      Giovanni Russo, University Degli Studi Dell'Aquila, Italy
      (877-35-73)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Entropic convergence and the linearized limit for the Boltzmann equation.
      C. David Levermore*, University of Arizona
      (877-35-72)
  • Saturday November 7, 1992, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Nonlinear Hyperbolic PDE and Fluid Mechanics, II

    Room 145, Kaprielian Hall

    • 3:00 p.m.
      A counterexample to local existence in weak spaces for nonlinear wave equations.
      Hans Lindblad*, Princeton University
      (877-35-71)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Upper bounds for the life span of solutions to systems of nonlinear wave equations in two and three space dimensions.
      Mohammad A. Rammaha*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
      (877-35-70)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Lower bounds of rates of decay for solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations.
      Maria E. Schonbek*, University of California, Santa Cruz
      (877-35-69)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Global existence and regularity for 3-D convection in porous media.
      Edriss S. Titi*, University of California, Irvine
      (877-35-68)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Normal forms for water waves.
      Walter Craig*, Brown University
      (877-35-62)
    • 5:30 p.m.
      New dispersive shallow water equations applicable to ocean dynamics.
      Darryl D. Holm*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
      (877-35-121)
  • Sunday November 8, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Nonlinear Hyperbolic PDE and Fluid Mechanics, III

    Room 145, Kaprielian Hall

    • 8:30 a.m.
      On the Zakharov-Schulman system.
      Carlos E. Kenig*, University of Chicago
      Gustavo Ponce, University of California, Santa Barbara
      Luis Vega, University Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
      (877-35-67)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      On global action-angle variables for periodic KdV, Toda and nonlinear Schroedinger equations.
      Thomas Kappeler*, Ohio State University, Columbus
      (877-35-66)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Branch singularities of nonlinear hyperbolic systems with two speeds.
      Nick Ercolani*, University of Arizona
      (877-35-63)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Shock wave solutions of the Einstein equations.
      Blake Temple*, University of California, Davis
      Joel Smoller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
      (877-35-64)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      The initial value problem for higher order dispersive equations.
      Gustavo Ponce*, University of California, Santa Barbara
      Carlos E. Kenig, University of Chicago
      Luis Vega, University Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
      (877-35-65)
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