AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, October 16, 2006 00:25:09

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

Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonconvex Variational Problems: Recent Advances and Applications, I
Room 103, James Fletcher Building
Organizers:
Marian Bocea, North Dakota State University and University of Utah bocea@math.utah.edu
Andrej Cherkaev, University of Utah cherk@math.utah.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Steady Poiseuille flow of nematic liquid crystals: effective equations and momentum relations for Young measures.
  ALexander Panchenko*, Department of Mathematics, Washington State University
  (1019-35-154)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Homogenization and field concentrations in heterogeneous media.
  Robert Lipton*, Louisiana State University
  (1019-35-145)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Min-max variational problem of optimal design.
  Elena Cherkaev*, University of Utah
  (1019-35-208)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Optimal design of an optical resonator.
  Chiu-Yen Kao, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University
  Fadil Santosa*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  (1019-35-50)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Variational principles in $L^{\infty}$ under general PDE constraints.
  Marian Bocea*, North Dakota State University
  (1019-49-144)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Quadratic cost functionals in the gradient and linear state laws.
  Pablo Pedregal*, Departamento de Matem\'aticas, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real (SPAIN)
  (1019-49-31)

Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Nonconvex Variational Problems: Recent Advances and Applications, II
Room 103, James Fletcher Building
Organizers:
Marian Bocea, North Dakota State University and University of Utah bocea@math.utah.edu
Andrej Cherkaev, University of Utah cherk@math.utah.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Comparison of the asymptotic analyses of a non-planar rod in linear elasticity and non-linear elasticity.
  Pierre Seppecher*, Insitut de Mathematiques de l'Universite du Sud-Toulon-Var
  (1019-49-166)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the Contact-angle Condition for Stranski-Krastanow Islands.
  Giovanni Leoni*, Carnegie Mellon University
  (1019-49-51)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Threshold-based quasistatic evolution of brittle damage.
  A Garroni, University of Rome
  C J Larsen*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  (1019-49-200)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Quasiconvexity-based sufficient conditions for strong local minima: the smooth case.
  Yury Grabovsky*, Temple University
  Tadele Mengesha, Temple University
  (1019-49-21)
- 5:00 p.m.
  New bounds for multiphase conducting composites.
  Andrej Cherkaev*, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
  (1019-49-204)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The dipole problem for $S^1$-valued maps with $H^{1/2}$-regularity.
  Vincent Millot*, Carnegie Mellon University
  Adriano Pisante, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
  (1019-49-112)

Sunday October 8, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Nonconvex Variational Problems: Recent Advances and Applications, III
Room 103, James Fletcher Building
Organizers:
Marian Bocea, North Dakota State University and University of Utah bocea@math.utah.edu
Andrej Cherkaev, University of Utah cherk@math.utah.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The homogenization of energies arising in the van der Waals-Cahn-Hilliard theory of phase transitions.
  Cristina Popovici*, North Dakota State University
  (1019-49-143)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Proof of the conjectures of Polya-Szego and Eshelby.
  Graeme W. Milton*, University of Utah
  Hyeonbae Kang, Seoul National University
  (1019-35-181)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Optimal Multiphase Composites: Navigating the Translation Bound.
  Nathan Albin*, Universitat Duisburg-Essen
  (1019-49-158)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The unfolding method for perforated domains.
  Doina Cioranescu, University Paris 6
  Georges Griso, University Paris 6
  Alain Damlamian, University Paris 12
  Daniel Onofrei*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  (1019-35-170)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Distortion Minimal Morphing of Compact Embedded Manifolds.
  Oksana Bihun*, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
  Carmen Chicone, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
  (1019-49-10)

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