AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 21, 2007 00:26:11

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

Saturday October 13, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Variational Problems in Condensed Matter, I
Room 234, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Lia Bronsard, McMaster University bronsard@mcmaster.ca
Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the Phase Diagram for Microphase Separation of Diblock Copolymers: Small Volume Fraction Regimes.
  Rustum Choksi*, Simon Fraser University
  (1032-35-160)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Sharp Interface Limits in the Study of Rare Events.
  Maria G. Westdickenberg*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1032-49-137)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Mathematical characterization of equilibria of the Smoluchowski equation for nematic liquid crystalline polymers.
  Hong Zhou*, Naval Postgraduate School
  Hongyun Wang, UC Santa Cruz
  Qi Wang, Florida State University
  M. Gregory Forest, UNC Chapel Hill
  (1032-35-33)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Solving Diffuse Charge Equations.
  Rolf Josef Ryham*, Mathematics, Rice University
  (1032-35-38)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On Viscoelstic Materials.
  Chun Liu*, Department of Mathematics, Penn State University
  (1032-35-185)

Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Variational Problems in Condensed Matter, II
Room 234, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Lia Bronsard, McMaster University bronsard@mcmaster.ca
Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On a type of free boundary problems arising from material science.
  Huiqiang Jiang*, University of Pittsburgh
  (1032-35-19)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Some remarks regarding vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates.
  Alberto Montero*, Assistant professor, University of Akron
  (1032-35-196)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Convergence of a modified Allen-Cahn equation to a prescribed mean curvature problem.
  Stephane Kirsch*, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Universit� Paris VI
  (1032-35-32)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Quantum and classical behavior in a model for a supersolid.
  Amandine Aftalion, University of Paris 6
  Xavier Blanc, University of Paris 6
  Robert L Jerrard*, University of Toronto
  (1032-35-107)
- 5:00 p.m.
  $\Gamma$-limit of the Ginzburg-Landau energy in a thin domain with a large magnetic field.
  Tien-Tsan Shieh*, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
  (1032-49-57)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Fourfold symmetric solution of the Ginzburg Landau equations for d-wave superconductors.
  Minkyun Kim*, Purdue University
  Daniel Phillips, Purdue University
  (1032-35-87)

Sunday October 14, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Variational Problems in Condensed Matter, III
Room 234, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Lia Bronsard, McMaster University bronsard@mcmaster.ca
Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the lower critical field for the Anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau model.
  Stanley Alama, McMaster University
  Lia Bronsard*, McMaster University
  Etienne Sandier, Universite Paris-12
  (1032-35-145)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Lorentz space estimates for Ginzburg-Landau.
  Ian Tice*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
  (1032-49-31)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Local minimizers for the Chern-Simons-Higgs energy.
  Daniel Spirn*, University of Minnesota
  (1032-35-53)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Modeling and stability for bent-core liquid crystal fibers.
  Daniel Phillips*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
  Patricia Bauman, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
  (1032-35-47)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Thin boundary layers of chiral smectics.
  Yaniv Almog*, LSU
  (1032-49-79)

Sunday October 14, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Variational Problems in Condensed Matter, IV
Room 234, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Lia Bronsard, McMaster University bronsard@mcmaster.ca
Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Mathematical modeling of ferroelectric liquid crystals.
  Jinhae Park*, Purdue University
  M. Carme Calderer, University of Minnesota
  (1032-49-42)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The continuum theory for smectic C* liquid crystals and its application to reorientation dynamics.
  Sookyung Joo*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Maria-Carme Calderer, University of Minnesota
  (1032-76-49)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Phase transitions between swollen and collapsed states of polymeric gels.
  Carme Calderer*, University of Minnesota, School of Mathematics
  (1032-35-94)

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