AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:51

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

Saturday October 24, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Modeling of Phase Transitions of Partially Ordered Physical Systems, I
Room 158, Willard Building
Organizers:
Maria-Carme T. Calderer, The Pennsylvania State University mcc@math.psu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 3:10 p.m.
  A Three-Dimensional Superconductor in a Strong Magnetic Field.
  Patricia Bauman*, Purdue University
  Melvyn Royer, Parkland College
  (937-35-133)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Weak Continuity of Minors and Lower Semicontinuity Results in Nonlinear Elasticity.
  Irene Fonseca*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
  (937-35-132)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Configurations of Bipolar Droplets of Nematic Liquid Crystals.
  Quan Shen*, Purdue University
  Carme Calderer, Penn State University
  Chun Liu, Penn State University
  (937-35-139)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Existence of Solutions for the Dynamics System of Smectic A Liquid Crystals.
  Chun Liu*, Penn State University
  (937-35-138)

Sunday October 25, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Modeling of Phase Transitions of Partially Ordered Physical Systems, II
Room 158, Willard Building
Organizers:
Maria-Carme T. Calderer, The Pennsylvania State University mcc@math.psu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Grain boundary energy and evolution.
  David Kinderlehrer*, Carnegie Mellon University
  (937-73-102)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Kinetic theory for polymer-liquid crystal systems.
  Weinan E*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, New York, NY 10012
  Cyrill Muratov, Courant Institute, NYU
  (937-35-146)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Entropic elasticity of martensites.
  Lev Truskinovsky*, Dept of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
  (937-35-135)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Dynamics of free surface and pure elongational flows of liquid crystalline polymers.
  Qi Wang*, Purdue University-Indiana University
  (937-35-136)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Scaling Relations for Chemical Spirals: Dispersion and Selection .
  Andrew L. Belmonte*, Penn State University
  J-M. Flesselles, ESPCI, Paris, France
  Q. Ouyang, NEC Research
  Vilmos Gaspar, Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary
  (937-92-141)

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