AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Wednesday, April 13, 2005 08:32:22

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Friday March 18, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics, I
Room 118B, Academic Complex
Organizers:
Robert J. McCann, University of Toronto mccann@math.toronto.edu
Daniel P. Spirn, University of Minnesota spirn@math.umn.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Variational solutions of some nonlinear problems in geometry and optics via Monge-Kantorovich optimal mass transport theory.
  Vladimir Oliker*, Department of Mathematics and Computer Scince, Emory University
  (1004-49-87)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A variational problem on the formation of mud cracking.
  Qinglan Xia*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1004-49-99)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Electrostatically deflected membranes and their symmetry.
  J. McCuan*, Atlanta, GA
  J. Pelesko, University of Deleware
  (1004-35-181)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Positive Solutions of Elliptic Equations Involving both Supercritical and Sublinear Growth.
  Peihao Zhao*, Department of Mathematics, Lanzhou University
  Chengkui Zhong, Department of Mathematics, Lanzhou University
  (1004-35-47)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Compactness via Symmetrization.
  Almut Burchard*, University of Virginia
  Yan Guo, Brown University
  (1004-46-202)

Friday March 18, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics, II
Room 118, Mass Media and Technology Hall
Organizers:
Robert J. McCann, University of Toronto mccann@math.toronto.edu
Daniel P. Spirn, University of Minnesota spirn@math.umn.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Mean curvature flow in the Heisenberg group.
  Luca Capogna*, University of Arkansas
  (1004-35-125)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Long time asymptotics for scalar conservation laws via potential comparison.
  Yong Jung Kim*, Department of Mathematics, Univercity of California-Riverside
  (1004-35-161)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Hyperbolic models for chemotaxis.
  Hyung Ju Hwang*, Duke University
  (1004-35-135)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Generalized Homogeneous Autonomous System and Gyroscope.
  Ke-ying Guan*, Science College, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing China
  Yanxia Hu, Science College, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing China
  (1004-70-19)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Opial's Inequality for Zero-Area Constraint.
  Jochen Denzler*, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
  (1004-26-275)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Blowup Solutions of the Semilinear Schr\"{o}dinger Equation.
  James Colliander, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
  Sarah Raynor*, Department of Mathematics, Wake Forest University
  Catherine Sulem, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
  J. Douglas Wright, Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  (1004-35-178)

Saturday March 19, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics, III
Room 118, Mass Media and Technology Hall
Organizers:
Robert J. McCann, University of Toronto mccann@math.toronto.edu
Daniel P. Spirn, University of Minnesota spirn@math.umn.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Vortex Sheets in 3D fluids.
  David M Ambrose*, Courant Institute
  (1004-76-77)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Sharp nonlinear stability criterion for Relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system.
  Zhiwu Lin*, Courant Institute, New York University
  (1004-35-233)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Emergence of Large Scale Structure Under Small Scale Random Bombardments.
  Xiaoming Wang*, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
  Andrew J. Majda, Courant Institute, New York University
  (1004-35-238)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the Solutions to the Normal Form of the Navier-Stokes Equations.
  Ciprian Foias, Texas A&M University
  Luan Hoang*, Texas A&M University
  Eric Olson, University of Nevada
  Mohammed Ziane, University of Southern California
  (1004-35-21)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Pinning and De-Pinning Phenomena in Materials Phase Boundary Motions.
  Nicolas Dirr, Max-Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany
  Nung Kwan Yip*, Purdue University
  (1004-35-156)

Saturday March 19, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics, IV
Room 118, Mass Media and Technology Hall
Organizers:
Robert J. McCann, University of Toronto mccann@math.toronto.edu
Daniel P. Spirn, University of Minnesota spirn@math.umn.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Universality in Burgers turbulence.
  Govind Menon*, Brown University
  (1004-35-80)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Coarsening in a thin-film equation: A rigorous upper bound on coarsening rate.
  Felix Otto, Bonn University
  Tobias Rump, Bonn University
  Dejan Slepcev*, UCLA
  (1004-35-201)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Existence of Weak Solutions of a Polymer Crystal Growth Model.
  Bo Su*, Iowa State University
  (1004-35-82)
- 4:30 p.m.
  $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary in a subelliptic obstacle problem.
  Arshak Petrosyan*, Purdue University
  (1004-35-216)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On a Characterization of Some Flow-invariant Sets.
  Elena Constantin*, Ohio University
  (1004-34-61)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Dynamics of a critical-case generalized thin film equation.
  Thomas P Witelski*, Dept of Math, Duke University
  (1004-35-36)

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