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2011 Spring Western Section Meeting
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
April 30 - May 1, 2011 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1071

Associate secretaries:

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

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Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Variational Methods

• Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Variational Methods, I
  Room C223, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  David Costa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas costa@unlv.nevada.edu
  Hossein Tehrani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas tehranih@unlv.nevada.edu
  Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University zhi-qiang.wang@usu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Bernstein condition for nonlinear elliptic PDEs.
    Nguyen Hoang Loc, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 155 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
    Klaus Schmitt*, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 155 South 1400 East, Salt lake City, UT 84112
    (1071-35-51)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Using a Lie generator to determine if a semidynamical system is local or global.
    John W Neuberger*, University of North Texas
    (1071-35-28)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Variational justification of the dimensional scaling method in chemical physics.
    Zhonghai Ding*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    (1071-35-60)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bifurcation results for a nonlinear Schrödinger system.
    Thomas Bartsch, University of Giessen, Germany
    Norman Dancer, The University of Sydney, Australia
    Zhi-Qiang Wang*, Utah State University
    (1071-35-99)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Variational Methods, II
  Room C223, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  David Costa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas costa@unlv.nevada.edu
  Hossein Tehrani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas tehranih@unlv.nevada.edu
  Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University zhi-qiang.wang@usu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Regularity of Extremal Solutions in Fourth Order Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems on General Domains.
    Craig Cowan, Stanford University
    Nassif Ghoussoub*, University of British Columbia
    Pierpaolo Esposito, Università degli Studi "Roma Tre
    (1071-35-196)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Multiple solutions to a magnetic nonlinear Choquard equation.
    Silvia Cingolani, Politecnico di Bari
    Mónica Clapp*, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Simone Secchi, Università di Milano-Bicocca
    (1071-35-116)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Continua of local minimizers in a non smooth model of phase transitions.
    Stephen Robinson*, Wake Forest University
    Pavel Drabek, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Cz. Rep.
    (1071-34-180)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic statistical characterizations of $p$-harmonic functions of two variables.
    David Hartenstine*, Western Washington University
    Matthew Rudd, University of the South
    (1071-35-216)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Applications of Sub-supersolution theorems to singular nonlinear elliptic problems.
    Loc H Nguyen*, University of Utah
    Klaus Schmitt, University of Utah
    (1071-35-21)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Variational Methods, III
  Room C223, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  David Costa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas costa@unlv.nevada.edu
  Hossein Tehrani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas tehranih@unlv.nevada.edu
  Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University zhi-qiang.wang@usu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Existence of seven solutions for an asymptotically linear boundary value problem.
    Alfonso Castro*, Harvey Mudd College
    Jorge Cossio, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin
    Carlos A Velez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin
    (1071-35-95)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    S-Shaped Bifurcation Curves in Ecosystems.
    Eunkyoung Lee, Pusan National University
    Sarath Sasi, Mississippi State University
    Ratnasingham Shivaji*, Mississippi State University
    (1071-35-106)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Uniqueness of positive solution to semilinear elliptic systems.
    Jann-Long Chern, National Central University, Taiwan
    Changshou Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
    Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
    (1071-35-98)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    $R_0$ analysis of a spatiotemporal model for stream populations.
    Jon Jacobsen*, Harvey Mudd College
    Yu Jin, University of Alberta
    Hannah McKenzie, University of Alberta
    Mark Lewis, University of Alberta
    (1071-35-199)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Multiple Solitary Wave Solutions of Nonlinear Schrödinger Systems.
    R.-S. Tian*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University
    Z.-Q. Wang, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    (1071-35-68)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Variational Methods, IV
  Room C223, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  David Costa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas costa@unlv.nevada.edu
  Hossein Tehrani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas tehranih@unlv.nevada.edu
  Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University zhi-qiang.wang@usu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Maximum and antimaximum principles: beyond the first eigenvalue.
    J. Fleckinger, Université de Toulouse
    J.-P. Gossez*, Université Libre de Bruxelles
    F. de Thélin, Universté de Toulouse
    (1071-35-64)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Periodic Boundary Value Problems and the Dancer--Fučík Spectrum Under Conditions of Resonance.
    Adolfo J. Rumbos*, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
    David A. Bliss, Claremont Graduate University
    (1071-34-198)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An inequality for a two-level domain decomposition preconditioner in processing high-contrast images.
    Jianxin Zhou*, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
    Yalchin Efendiev, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
    Juan Galvis, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
    (1071-35-124)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Newton's Method for Nonlinear Elliptic Systems.
    John M. Neuberger*, Northern Arizona University
    Christopher Tyler Diggans, Northern Arizona University
    (1071-35-154)

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