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Saturday April 5, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations in Materials Science, I
Room 206, Mitchell Hall
Organizers:
Lia Bronsard, McMaster University
Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@math.nmsu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Domain walls for Gross-Pitaevskii systems.
  Stan Alama, McMaster University
  Lia Bronsard*, McMaster University
  Andres Contreras, McMaster University
  Dmitry Pelinovsky, McMaster University
  (1099-35-353)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Axisymmetric critical points of a nonlocal isoperimetric problem on the two-sphere.
  Rustum Choksi, McGill University
  Ihsan Topaloglu*, McGill University
  Gantumur Tsogtgerel, McGill University
  (1099-49-33)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Domain walls in coupled NLS systems.
  Andres A Contreras*, McMaster University
  Stanley Alama, McMaster University
  Lia Bronsard, McMaster University
  Dmitri Pelinovsky, McMaster University
  (1099-49-79)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Completeness of the eigenspace of some non-self-adjoint operators.
  Yaniv Almog*, LSU
  (1099-35-46)

Saturday April 5, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations in Materials Science, II
Room 206, Mitchell Hall
Organizers:
Lia Bronsard, McMaster University
Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@math.nmsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Energy-Minimizing Nematic Elastomers.
  Patricia Bauman*, Purdue University
  Andrea Rubiano, Princeton Consultants
  (1099-35-94)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Field response of smectic A liquid crystals.
  Sookyung Joo*, Old Dominion University
  Carlos J Garcia-Cervera, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1099-35-180)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Diffusive transport in two-dimensional nematics.
  Ibrahim Fatkullin*, University of Arizona
  Valeriy Slastikov, University of Bristol
  (1099-35-71)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Properties of minimizers to the Maier-Saupe energy for liquid crystals.
  Patricia Bauman, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
  Daniel Phillips*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
  (1099-35-54)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On a bent-core molecule liquid crystal model.
  Tiziana Giorgi*, New Mexico State University
  (1099-49-162)

Sunday April 6, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations in Materials Science, III
Room 206, Mitchell Hall
Organizers:
Lia Bronsard, McMaster University
Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@math.nmsu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On minimizers of a Ginzburg-Landau variational problem in a domain with a vanishingly small hole.
  Leonid Berlyand,
  Dmitry Golovaty*, University of Akron
  Oleksandr Iaroshenko,
  Volodymyr Rybalko, Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering
  (1099-35-408)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Motion of Interfaces Under the Cahn-Hilliard Equation with One or Two Sided Degenerate Diffusion Mobility.
  Shibin Dai*, New Mexico State University
  Qiang Du, Penn State University
  (1099-35-34)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Analysis of a discrete curvature-driven flow.
  Oleksandr Misiats*, Purdue University
  Aaron Yip, Purdue University
  (1099-35-295)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Relative Entropy in Hyperbolic Relaxation of Balance Laws.
  Alexey Miroshnikov*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland, College Park
  (1099-35-104)