AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 10, 2007 00:30:01

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

Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, I
Room S260, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Vanderbilt University
Mikhail Perepelitsa, Vanderbilt University mikhail.perepelitsa@vanderbilt.edu
Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Gauss-Green Theorem for Weakly Differentiable Vector Fields, Sets of Finite Perimeter, and Balance Laws.
  Gui-Qiang Chen*, Northwestern University
  Monica Torres, Purdue University
  William Ziemer, Indiana University
  (1033-35-79)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Hyperbolic Conservation Laws with Involutions and Contingent Entropies.
  Constantine M. Dafermos*, Brown University
  (1033-35-37)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Numerical determination of stability of viscous shock waves.
  Kevin Zumbrun*, Indiana University
  (1033-34-144)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Stationary gas dynamical shocks with symmetry.
  Kris Jenssen*, Penn State
  Erik Endres, Penn State
  Mark Williams, UNC CHapel Hill
  (1033-35-141)
- 10:00 a.m.
  ODEs with fast transitions and spherical viscous shocks.
  Mark Williams*, Univ. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
  (1033-76-158)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Quasilinear hyperbolic system of partial differential equations and the associated wave interaction phenomena.
  V D Sharma*, I I T Bombay, India
  (1033-35-38)

Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, II
Room S260, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Vanderbilt University
Mikhail Perepelitsa, Vanderbilt University mikhail.perepelitsa@vanderbilt.edu
Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Variability of the Single Photon Response in Rod Phototransduction.
  Emmanuele DiBenedetto*, Vanderbilt University
  (1033-35-248)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Wiener's Criterion at $\infty$ for the Heat Equation and its Measure-theoretical Counterpart.
  Ugur G. Abdulla*, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida
  (1033-35-48)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Boundary Behaviour of $p$-Harmonic Functions in Domains Beyond Lipschitz Domains.
  John Lewis, University of Kentucky
  Kaj Nystr{\"o}m*, Ume{\aa} University
  (1033-35-55)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Flow of a surfactant-laden thin liquid film down an inclined plane.
  Michael Shearer*, North Carolina State University
  (1033-35-56)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Asymptotic analysis of viscoelastic sink flow in a wedge.
  Thomas Hagen*, The University of Memphis
  (1033-76-42)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The mushy zone free boundary problem.
  Tim P. Schulze*, University of Tennessee
  M. Grae Worster, University of Cambridge
  (1033-80-107)

Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, III
Room S260, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Vanderbilt University
Mikhail Perepelitsa, Vanderbilt University mikhail.perepelitsa@vanderbilt.edu
Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Asymptotic behavior of solutions to a model for the combustion of a compressible, reacting fluid.
  David Hoff*, Indiana University
  Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
  Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland
  (1033-35-39)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the regularity of weak solutions of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations in $B^{-1}_{\infty,\infty}$.
  Alexey Cheskidov*, University of Chicago
  Roman Shvydkoy, University of Illinois
  (1033-35-77)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Local existence and regularity of solutions to the $d$-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with weighted initial data.
  David Swanson*, University of Louisville
  (1033-35-155)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Global strong solutions of equations in geophysical fluid dynamics.
  Luan T. Hoang*, University of Minnesota
  George R. Sell, University of Minnesota
  (1033-35-164)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Moving interface problems for the Euler equations.
  Steve Shkoller*, University of California at Davis
  (1033-35-236)

Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, IV
Room S260, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Vanderbilt University
Mikhail Perepelitsa, Vanderbilt University mikhail.perepelitsa@vanderbilt.edu
Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Well-Posedness and Stability Conditions for Some Darcy Flows.
  David M. Ambrose*, Clemson university
  (1033-35-75)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Regularity of the free boundary for solutions of the Hele-Shaw problem.
  Ivan Blank*, Kansas State University
  (1033-35-249)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the Stefan problem with surface tension.
  Gieri Simonett*, Vanderbilt University
  Jan Pruss, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
  (1033-35-171)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Elliptic and parabolic model problems with singular coefficients in an angular domain.
  Borys Bazaliy*, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Ukraine
  (1033-35-189)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Boundary behavior of compressible, viscous fluid flows with discontinuous density.
  Mikhail Perepelitsa*, Vanderbilt University
  (1033-35-251)

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