AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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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

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 T�cnico
  (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*, Universit� 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., Universit� 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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