AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:41

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday October 17, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments in PDE's, Calculus of Variations, and Applications to Problems in Materials Science, I
Room 254, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University fonseca@andrew.cmu.edu
Daniel Phillips, Purdue University phillips@math.purdue.edu
Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota sverak@math.umn.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The variational formulation of the Fokker-Planck Equation and its consequences
  David Kinderlehrer*, Carnegie Mellon University
  (926-35-80)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Deformable Thin Films: From Macroscale to Microscale and Nanoscale to Microscale
  Richard D. James*, University of Minnesota
  (926-73-187)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Energetics in martensites
  Oscar P. Bruno*,
  (926-49-09)
- 6:00 p.m.
  The Gamma-limit of Ginzburg-Landau functionals
  Robert L Jerrard*,
  H. M. Soner,
  (926-49-219)
- 6:30 p.m.
  Motion of a closed interface by minus the surface Laplacian of curvature
  Sergio A. Alvarez,
  Chun Liu*, CMU/UGA
  (926-35-185)

Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments in PDE's, Calculus of Variations, and Applications to Problems in Materials Science, II
Room 254, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University fonseca@andrew.cmu.edu
Daniel Phillips, Purdue University phillips@math.purdue.edu
Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota sverak@math.umn.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Problems and Theorems related to the Nodal and Critical Sets of Solutions of Elliptic PDE's
  FangHua Lin*, university of chicago
  (926-35-203)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The $\infty$-eigenvalue problem
  Peter Lindqvist,
  Juan J Manfredi*,
  (926-35-227)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Connected components of free discontinuity sets in image segmentation and fracture mechanics
  Christopher J. Larsen*, WPI
  (926-49-201)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Exact relations for effective tensors of polycrystals.
  Yury Grabovsky*, Department of Mathematics University of Utah
  (926-73-16)

Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments in PDE's, Calculus of Variations, and Applications to Problems in Materials Science, III
Room 254, Skiles Classroom Building
Organizers:
Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University fonseca@andrew.cmu.edu
Daniel Phillips, Purdue University phillips@math.purdue.edu
Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota sverak@math.umn.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Relaxation of multi-well variational problems based on necessary conditions
  Andrej V Cherkaev*, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
  (926-49-205)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Geometric restrictions for the existence of viscosity solutions.
  Wilfrid D. Gangbo*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (926-49-233)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Inverting the $p$-Harmonic Operator
  Carlo Sbordone*, University of Napoli (ITALY)
  (926-35-165)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Some Variational Functionals in Quasiconformal Geometry
  Tadeusz Iwaniec*,
  (926-35-285)

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