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2005 Fall Central Section Meeting
Lincoln, NE, October 21-23, 2005
Meeting #1011

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

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Special Session on Calculus of Variations

• Friday October 21, 2005, 1:45 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Calculus of Variations, I
  Room 203, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Mikil Foss, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mfoss@math.unl.edu
  Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon University giovanni@andrew.cmu.edu
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    New variational principles for models of dielectric breakdown and polycrystal plasticity.
    Marian Bocea*, University of Utah
    (1011-49-46)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Variational Methods in the Study of Imaging, Foams, Quantum Dots ... and More.
    Irene Fonseca*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1011-49-39)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    On the extension of Lipschitz maps.
    B. Dacorogna*, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
    (1011-35-378)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Necessary Conditions for a Minimum at a Radial Cavitating Singularity in Nonlinear Elasticity.
    S. J. Spector*, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    J. Sivaloganathan, University of Bath
    (1011-49-41)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Calculus of Variations, II
  Room 203, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Mikil Foss, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mfoss@math.unl.edu
  Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon University giovanni@andrew.cmu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    $A$-quasiconvexity.
    Pedro M Santos*, Instituto Superior Técnico
    (1011-49-270)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On G-Compactness of Beltrami operators.
    Tadeusz Iwaniec*, Syracuse University
    (1011-35-348)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Inversion of deformations.
    Jan Mal\'y*, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
    Stanislav Hencl, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
    Pekka Koskela, University of Jyv\"asky'\"a, Finland
    (1011-49-240)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Newton's problem of minimal resistence.
    Marino Belloni*, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Parma, Italy
    (1011-49-105)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Gauss Green theorem for a bounded vector field whose divergence is a measure.
    William P Ziemer*, Indiana Univesity (Bloomington)
    (1011-28-116)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Implicit partial differential equations.
    P. Marcellini*, Università di Firenze
    (1011-49-379)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Action Minimization and Sharp Interface Limits.
    Maria G. Reznikoff*, Princeton University
    (1011-49-38)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Calculus of Variations, III
  Room 203, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Mikil Foss, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mfoss@math.unl.edu
  Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon University giovanni@andrew.cmu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rate-Independent Evolution Problems in Elasto-Plasticity: a Variational Approach.
    Gianni Dal Maso*, SISSA
    (1011-49-297)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A variational approach to quasi-static evolution for a class of dissipative materials.
    Gilles A. Francfort*, L.P.M.T.M., Université Paris-Nord
    (1011-74-111)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quasistatic evolution of steps along a phase boundary.
    Anna Vainchtein*, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
    (1011-49-234)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic stability of solitary waves in models of water wave dynamics.
    Robert L Pego*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1011-35-339)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Calculus of Variations, IV
  Room 203, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Mikil Foss, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mfoss@math.unl.edu
  Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon University giovanni@andrew.cmu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Global Lipschitz regularity of minimizers for asymptotically convex integrals.
    Mikil Foss*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1011-49-320)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Variational multiscale problems and applications to thin films.
    Margarida N Ba\'ia*, Instituto Superior T\'ecnico
    (1011-49-273)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A model for the epitaxial growth of an elastic thin film on a lattice-mismatched substrate.
    Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University
    Nicola Fusco, University of Naples
    Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon University
    Massimiliano Morini*, International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste
    (1011-49-232)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Periodic phase separation: the periodic Cahn-Hilliard and isoperimetric problems.
    Peter J Sternberg*, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University
    Rustum Choksi, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
    (1011-49-97)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Vortices in 2D Bose-Einstein condensates.
    Radu Ignat, Laboratoire J.L. Lions, University Paris 6
    Vincent Millot*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1011-35-167)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lagrangian cartesian currrents and weak continuity of the determinant of the Hessian.
    Robert L Jerrard*, University of Toronto
    (1011-58-258)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A two-dimensional compressible membrane theory as a Gamma-limit of three-dimensional incompressible elasticity.
    Georg K Dolzmann*, Mathematics Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
    (1011-49-322)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Calculus of Variations, V
  Room 203, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Mikil Foss, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mfoss@math.unl.edu
  Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon University giovanni@andrew.cmu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The structure of spaces of maps into homogeneous spaces.
    Dave Auckly*, Kansas State University
    Lev Kapitanski, University of Miami
    (1011-58-24)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Homogeneous spaces and Faddeev-Skyrme model.
    Sergiy V. Koshkin*, Kansas State University
    (1011-58-275)

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