AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 14, 2007 00:27:35

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 6, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics, I (Dedicated to the Memory of Tom Branson)
Room 204, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Sagun Chanillo, Rutgers University chanillo@math.rutgers.edu
Michael K.-H. Kiessling, Rutgers University miki@math.rutgers.edu
Avy Soffer, Rutgers University soffer@math.rutgers.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Opening Remarks in Honor of Tom Branson
- 8:10 a.m.
  Applications of nonlinear hyperbolic problems to the theory of water waves.
  Timothy A. Smith*, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (Daytona Beach campus)
  (1031-35-10)
- 8:40 a.m.
  Extension to a classical theorem of Liouville and applications.
  Y. Y. Li*, Rutgers University
  (1031-35-116)
- 9:20 a.m.
  Break
- 9:30 a.m.
  Prescribing $Q$-curvature on four manifolds and related issues.
  A. Malchiodi*, SISSA
  (1031-35-113)
- 10:10 a.m.
  The $p$-mean curvature equation in 3D pseudohermitian geometry.
  P. Yang*, Princeton University
  (1031-35-114)

Saturday October 6, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics, II (Dedicated to the Memory of Tom Branson)
Room 204, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Sagun Chanillo, Rutgers University
Michael K.-H. Kiessling, Rutgers University miki@math.rutgers.edu
Avy Soffer, Rutgers University
- 3:00 p.m.
  On a class of variational functional in conformal geometry.
  S.-Y. A. Chang*, Princeton University
  H. Fang, IAS Princeton
  (1031-35-115)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Break
- 4:00 p.m.
  An estimate on the blowing-up solutions of a fourth order equation.
  Y. Xu*, Department of Mathematics, Courant Institute, NYU
  (1031-35-112)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:20 p.m.
  Discussion and Closing Remarks

Sunday October 7, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics, III (in Honor of Shelly Goldstein's 60th Birthday)
Room 204, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Sagun Chanillo, Rutgers University
Michael K.-H. Kiessling, Rutgers University miki@math.rutgers.edu
Avy Soffer, Rutgers University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Borel summation techniques in PDEs and the Navier-Stokes equation in $\mathbb{R}^3$.
  O. Costin*, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
  (1031-35-109)
- 8:40 a.m.
  Some Limit Theorems in Ergodic Theory.
  Y. Sinai*, Princeton University
  (1031-37-108)
- 9:20 a.m.
  Break
- 9:30 a.m.
  Regularity criteria for asymmetric Navier-Stokes equations.
  H.-T. Yau*, Harvard University
  (1031-35-110)
- 10:10 a.m.
  TBA.
  S. Klainerman*, Princeton University
  (1031-35-111)

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