AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:29

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 13, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, I
Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall
Organizers:
Patricia E. Bauman, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Fanghua Lin, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Peter J. Sternberg, Indiana University, Bloomington
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some inequalities for second order elliptic equations and applications.
  Louis Nirenberg*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (910-35-108)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Fast/slow diffusion and nonlocal geometric motion.
  Lawrence Craig Evans, University of California, Berkeley
  Mikhail Feldman*, University of Pennsylvania
  Ronald F. Gariepy, University of Kentucky
  (910-35-52)
- 10:20 a.m.
  The singular limit of a vector-valued reaction-diffusion process.
  Lia Bronsard*, McMaster University
  Barbara Stoth, University of Bonn, Germany
  (910-35-36)

Saturday April 13, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall
Organizers:
Patricia E. Bauman, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Fanghua Lin, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Peter J. Sternberg, Indiana University, Bloomington
- 2:30 p.m.
  Dynamics of Ginzburg-Landau vortices.
  H. Mete Soner*, Carnegie Mellon University
  Robert Jerrard, Carnegie Mellon University
  (910-35-15)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Constraints on formation of singularities for the small disturbance transonic flow equations.
  Irene Martinez Gamba*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (910-35-128)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Travelling fronts in cylinders and their stability.
  Jerrold W. Bebernes, University of Colorado, Boulder
  Congming Li, University of Colorado, Boulder
  Yi Li*, University of Rochester
  (910-35-93)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Symmetry of solutions of non-linear PDE.
  Sagun Chanillo*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (910-35-29)

Sunday April 14, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, III
Room 1302, Warren Weaver Hall
Organizers:
Patricia E. Bauman, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Fanghua Lin, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Peter J. Sternberg, Indiana University, Bloomington
- 9:00 a.m.
  Monotonicity formulas for solutions of equations in adjacent domains.
  Luis A. Caffarelli*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (910-35-106)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Gauged harmonic maps from $R^2$ to $S^2$.
  Yisong Yang*, Polytechnic University
  (910-35-87)
- 10:20 a.m.
  On the existence and uniqueness of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space.
  Barbara Nelli, University of Paris VII, France
  Joel Spruck*, Johns Hopkins University
  (910-35-131)

Sunday April 14, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, IV
Room 1302, Warren Weaver Hall
Organizers:
Patricia E. Bauman, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Fanghua Lin, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Peter J. Sternberg, Indiana University, Bloomington
- 2:30 p.m.
  Incompatibility, hysteresis, and the two well problem.
  Robert V. Kohn*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  Veronique Lods, University of Paris, France
  (910-73-48)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Higher gradient integrability of equilibria for functionals with rank-one convex local energies.
  Michael M. Dougherty*, Pennsylvania State University, Reading
  (910-35-105)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Regularity results in models for image segmentation, fracture and damage.
  Irene Fonseca*, Carnegie Mellon University
  (910-49-58)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Revisiting the paradigm of the calculus of variations: An extended variational principle.
  David Kinderlehrer*, Carnegie Mellon University
  (910-35-88)

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