AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, May 3, 2009 00:21:11

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS steve.weintraub@lehigh.edu

Saturday April 25, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Scaling, Irregularities, and Partial Differential Equations, I
Room 406, Salisbury Laboratories
Organizers:
Umberto Mosco, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Bogdan M. Vernescu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute vernescu@wpi.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Discontinuities in the Wave Propagation Through Dynamic Materials.
  Konstantin A Lurie*, Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  (1050-35-172)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Homogenization of elasticity equations without scale separation.
  Leonid Berlyand*, Penn State University
  Houman Owhadi, California Institute of Technology
  (1050-35-157)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Limit shapes and the complex Burgers equation.
  Richard Kenyon*, Brown University
  (1050-82-124)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Mosco convergence and the weak convergence of the Wiener measures for the weighted thin layers and boundaries.
  Jun Masamune*, Department of Mathematical Sciences - Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  (1050-60-96)

Saturday April 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Scaling, Irregularities, and Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 406, Salisbury Laboratories
Organizers:
Umberto Mosco, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Bogdan M. Vernescu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute vernescu@wpi.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Remarks on nonlinear elliptic equations.
  Louis Nirenberg*, Courant Institute
  (1050-35-179)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Gradient Estimates for the Perfect Conductivity Problem.
  Yanyan Li*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  Ellen ShiTing Bao, University of Minnesota
  Biao Yin, Rutgers University
  (1050-35-100)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Pressure Beneath a Stokes Wave.
  Walter A Strauss*, Brown University
  (1050-35-125)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Partial Differential Equations Arising from Electrostatic MEMS.
  Yujin Guo*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  (1050-35-73)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Uniqueness of locally invariant Laplacian, Dirichlet form and Brownian motion on Sierpinski carpets.
  Alexander Teplyaev*, University of Connecticut
  (1050-60-115)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Scaling, Irregularities, and Partial Differential Equations, III
Room 406, Salisbury Laboratories
Organizers:
Umberto Mosco, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Bogdan M. Vernescu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute vernescu@wpi.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the Mixed Problem for Second Order Elliptic Systems.
  Irina Mitrea*, University of Virginia
  (1050-35-177)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Novel Finite Element Meshing Technique Driven by Fractal Koch Curves.
  Emily J. Evans*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  (1050-35-180)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Moving Interfaces in Sectral Problems: Laplace Eigenvalues on Polygons and Deformed Manifolds.
  Pavel Grinfeld*, Drexel Univerosity
  Gilbert Strang, MIT
  (1050-49-156)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Approximating a SPDE with a coefficient with infinity number of scales.
  Marcus Sarkis*, WPI Department of Mathematical Sciences and IMPA
  Juan Galvis, Texas A & M Department of Mathematics
  (1050-65-146)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Scaling, Irregularities, and Partial Differential Equations, IV
Room 406, Salisbury Laboratories
Organizers:
Umberto Mosco, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Bogdan M. Vernescu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute vernescu@wpi.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Acoustic Propagation in a Random Saturated Medium: The Monophasic Case.
  Robert Pertsch Gilbert*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark,DE
  Ana Vasilic, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark,DE
  (1050-35-104)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Accommodating Irregular Subdomains in Domain Decomposition Theory.
  Olof B. Widlund*, Courant Institute
  (1050-65-178)

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