AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

1997 Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Atlanta, GA, October 17-19, 1997
Meeting #926

• 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)