AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:14

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, I
Room 144, Educational Building
Organizers:
Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh dwang@math.pitt.edu
Yanni Zeng, University of Alabama at Birmingham zeng@math.uab.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Weak Solutions to a Nonlinear Variational Wave Equation.
  Ping Zhang, Academia Sinica
  Yuxi Zheng*, Indiana University
  (960-35-182)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation.
  Reza Malek-Madani*, U. S. Naval Academy
  (960-35-26)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Sharp Well-Posedness Theory for the BBM Equation.
  Jerry L Bona*, University of Texas at Austin
  Nickolay Tzvetkov, Universit\'e de Paris Sud
  (960-35-23)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Wave Interactions in Nonlinear Elastic Strings.
  Robin C Young*, Univ of Mass
  (960-35-254)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A discrete model for an ill-posed nonlinear parabolic PDE.
  David G Schaeffer*, Duke University
  (960-35-241)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Nonlinear problems in magnetohydrodynamics and related equations.
  Dehua Wang*, University of Pittsburgh
  (960-35-226)

Saturday November 11, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, II
Room 144, Educational Building
Organizers:
Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh dwang@math.pitt.edu
Yanni Zeng, University of Alabama at Birmingham zeng@math.uab.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Renormalization Group and Scaling Methods in Differential Equations.
  Gunduz Caginalp*, University of Pittsburgh
  (960-35-40)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Large-Time Behavior of Entropy Solutions with Large Oscillation for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws.
  Gui-Qiang Chen*, Northwestern University
  (960-35-216)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Critical threshold phenomena in Euler-Poisson equations.
  Eitan Tadmor*, UCLA
  (960-35-116)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Recent results on the Chapman-Enskog expansion.
  Marshall Slemrod*, UW Madison
  (960-35-118)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Cavitation in one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes flows.
  David C Hoff*, Indiana University
  (960-35-30)

Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, III
Room 144, Educational Building
Organizers:
Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh dwang@math.pitt.edu
Yanni Zeng, University of Alabama at Birmingham zeng@math.uab.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Waves in ferromagnetic materials.
  Hans G Kaper*, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA
  (960-35-124)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Asymptotic Analysis of Fluid Mixing Equations in the Incompressible Limit.
  James G Glimm*, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  Hyeonseong Jin, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  Marc Laforest, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  (960-35-16)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Extensions and Amplifications of a Traffic Model of Aw and Rascle.
  James M Greenberg*, Carnegie Mellon University
  (960-35-49)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On Approximate Solutions to Some Transonic Flow Problems.
  Gui Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
  Pui Tak Kan*, IUPUI and Northwestern U.
  (960-35-235)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On the structure of the equations of elastodynamics.
  Athanasios E Tzavaras*, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
  (960-35-201)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Fundamental Solutions and Nonlinear Stability of Shock Profiles.
  Yanni Zeng*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (960-35-234)

Sunday November 12, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, IV
Room 144, Educational Building
Organizers:
Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh dwang@math.pitt.edu
Yanni Zeng, University of Alabama at Birmingham zeng@math.uab.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Free Boundary Problem for a Quasilinear Degenerate Elliptic Equation.
  Sun\v{c}ica \v{C}ani\'{c}, University of Houston
  Barbara L Keyfitz*, University of Houston
  Eun Heui Kim, University of Houston
  (960-35-59)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Continuum Models of Granular Flow.
  Michael Shearer*, North Carolina State University
  (960-35-102)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The random projection method for hyperbolic conservation laws with stiff reaction terms.
  Shi Jin*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (960-35-169)
- 11:00 a.m.
  `Thin Fluid Film' PDEs: Stability and Energy Landscape of Steady States.
  Richard S. Laugesen*, University of Illinois, Urbana--Champaign
  Mary C. Pugh, University of Pennsylvania
  (960-35-13)

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