AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, I
Room L R3, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University gqchen@math.northwestern.edu
Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison feldman@math.wisc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Shock and boudary layers for Boltzmann equation.
  Tai-Ping Liu*, Stanford University
  (1001-35-203)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Uniqueness of weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations of multidimensional, compressible flow.
  David Hoff*, Indiana University
  (1001-35-113)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Nonlinear hyperbolic surface waves.
  John K Hunter*, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Davis
  (1001-35-400)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Two-dimensional regular shock reflection for the pressure gradient system of conservation laws.
  Yuxi Zheng*, Penn State University
  (1001-35-234)

Saturday October 23, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, II
Room L R3, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University gqchen@math.northwestern.edu
Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison feldman@math.wisc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Bifurcation and Stability for Ginzburg-Landau Model of Superconductivity.
  Tian Ma, Indiana University and Sichuan University
  Shouhong Wang*, Indiana University
  (1001-35-407)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Global Solvabilty for a Nonlinear Maxwell's Equation in Quasistationary Electromagnetic Fields.
  Hong-Ming Yin*, Washington State University
  Wei Wei, Guizhou University
  (1001-35-211)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Free boundary problems for quasilinear degenerate equations.
  Eun Heui Kim*, California State University Long Beach
  (1001-35-372)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the pointwise jump condition of the free boundary in the 1-phase Stefan problem.
  Donatella Danielli*, Purdue University
  Marianne Korten, Kansas State University
  (1001-35-385)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Obstacle problem in Carnot groups of step 2.
  Arshak Petrosyan*, Purdue University
  (1001-35-267)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A Poincare inequality on $R^{n}$ and its application to potential fluid flows.
  Guozhen Lu, Wayne State University
  Biao Ou*, University of Toledo
  (1001-35-41)

Sunday October 24, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, III
Room L R3, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University gqchen@math.northwestern.edu
Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison feldman@math.wisc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Plasma sheaths and their dynamics.
  M. Slemrod*, University of Wisconsin- Madison
  (1001-35-40)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Regularity of solutions to anisotropic elliptic equations.
  Gary M Lieberman*, Iowa State University
  (1001-35-135)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On a Multidimensional Model for the Dynamic Combustion of Compressible Reacting Flows.
  D. Donatelli, University of L'Aquila
  K. Trivisa*, University of Maryland at College Park
  (1001-35-93)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Global Structure of Solutions to a Two-Dimensional System of Conservation Laws.
  Dehua Wang*, University of Pittsburgh
  (1001-35-90)

Sunday October 24, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, IV
Room L R3, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University gqchen@math.northwestern.edu
Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison feldman@math.wisc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The phase transition between chiral nematic and smectic liquid crystals.
  Daniel Phillips*, Purdue University, Department of Mathematics
  Sookyung Joo, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) , University of Minnesota
  (1001-35-167)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Stability of undercompressive shock profiles.
  Peter Howard, Texas A. and M.
  Kevin Zumbrun*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (1001-35-126)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Structural properties of viscoelasticity and convergence to polyconvex elastodynamics.
  Corrado Lattanzio, Universita de L'Aquila
  Athanasios E. Tzavaras*, University of Wisconsin
  (1001-35-224)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Critical Thresholds in Hyperbolic Balance Laws.
  Hailiang Liu*, Iowa State University
  (1001-35-277)

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