AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:44

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Applied to Materials Science, I
Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Patricia Bauman, Purdue University bauman@math.purdue.edu
Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Convergence Analysis of a Space-Time Discontinuous Galerkin method for Scalar Conservation Laws.
  Yangsuk Ko*, California State University at Bakersfield
  Robert Haber, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1000-35-58)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Singular limits in the Liouville type equations.
  Michal Kowalczyk*, Kent State University
  (1000-35-139)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Long-time Limit For The Ginzburg-Landau System With Pinning.
  Jianzhong Sun*, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
  Patricia Bauman, Purdue University
  (1000-35-43)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Scattering in Ginzburg-Landau equations.
  Stephen J Gustafson*, University of British Columbia
  Kenji Nakanishi, Nagoya University
  Tai-Peng Tsai, University of British Columbia
  (1000-35-208)

Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Applied to Materials Science, II
Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Patricia Bauman, Purdue University bauman@math.purdue.edu
Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Dynamics of solitons in nonlinear Schroedinger equations with external potentials.
  I. M. Sigal*, University of Notre Dame, University of Toronto
  (1000-35-94)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Stability of Pinned Fundamental Vortices.
  Fridolin S.T. Ting*, Lakehead University
  (1000-35-86)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Stable vortex Solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau Energy.
  Alberto Montero*, McMaster University
  (1000-35-153)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Vortices and pinning effects for the Ginzburg--Landau model in multiply connected domains.
  Stan Alama, McMaster University
  Lia Bronsard*, McMaster University
  (1000-35-210)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion

Sunday October 17, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Applied to Materials Science, III
Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Patricia Bauman, Purdue University bauman@math.purdue.edu
Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Vortices in the Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity.
  Sylvia Serfaty*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  (1000-35-124)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Localization of vortices for the Ginzburg-Landau energy functional.
  Daniel Spirn*, University of Minnesota
  (1000-35-96)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Vortices and current in the three-dimensional thin-film Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity.
  Dmitry Glotov*, University of Connecticut
  (1000-35-194)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau Equations in Three Dimensions.
  P. Bauman, Purdue University
  H. Jadallah*, New Mexico Tech
  D. Phillips, Purdue University
  (1000-35-176)

Sunday October 17, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Applied to Materials Science, IV
Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Patricia Bauman, Purdue University bauman@math.purdue.edu
Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Mathematical problems of gel swelling.
  M C Calderer*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  (1000-35-226)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The phase transition between the chiral nematic and smectic liquid crystals.
  Sookyung Joo*, IMA, University of Minnesota
  Daniel Phillips, Purdue Univesity
  (1000-35-60)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Time Evolution of Nematic Liquid Crystals.
  Dmitry Golovaty*, The University of Akron
  (1000-35-211)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Continuum theory for flows of liquid crystal polymers.
  Qi Wang, Florida State University
  Zhenlu Cui*, Florida State University
  (1000-76-224)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion

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