AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:29

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Friday March 22, 1996, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Current Issues in Nonlinear Conservation Laws, I
Room 253, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Suncica Canic, Iowa State University
- 9:30 a.m.
  Riemann solutions for conservation laws.
  James G. Glimm*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  (909-76-98)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Riemann problem solutions of codimensions $0$ and $1$.
  Stephen Schecter*, North Carolina State University
  (909-35-108)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Structural stability of Riemann solutions with respect to the change in viscosity.
  Suncica Canic*, Iowa State University
  (909-76-196)

Friday March 22, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Current Issues in Nonlinear Conservation Laws, II
Room 253, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Suncica Canic, Iowa State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Global solutions for the Navier-Stokes equations of multidimensional, compressible, heat-conducting flow with discontinuous initial data.
  David C. Hoff*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (909-35-38)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On a nonlocal dispersive equation modeling suspensions.
  Kevin R. Zumbrun*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (909-35-134)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Asymptotic decay of periodic solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws.
  Gui-Qiang Chen*, Northwestern University
  Hermano Frid, Northwestern University and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janiero, Brazil
  (909-35-135)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Weak detonation solutions of a combustion model.
  Tong Li*, University of Iowa
  (909-76-187)

Saturday March 23, 1996, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Current Issues in Nonlinear Conservation Laws, III
Room 253, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Suncica Canic, Iowa State University
- 9:30 a.m.
  Mass conserving front tracking for miscible two phase flow.
  Kou Kang Chang, Indiana University, Bloomington
  W. Brent Lindquist*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  (909-76-40)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Viscous shock profiles and post-shock oscillations.
  Smadar Karni*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (909-76-137)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A class of positive difference schemes for symmetrizable systems of conservation laws in any number of space dimensions.
  Peter D. Lax*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  Xu-Dong Liu, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (909-76-97)

Saturday March 23, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Current Issues in Nonlinear Conservation Laws, IV
Room 253, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Suncica Canic, Iowa State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Remarks on Mach configurations for the small-disturbance equation.
  Cathleen S. Morawetz*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (909-76-109)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Steady states of the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck system.
  Robert T. Glassey, Indiana University, Bloomington
  John W. Schaeffer, Carnegie Mellon University
  Yuxi Zheng*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (909-82-126)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A numerical method for a free-boundary problem arising in weak shock reflection.
  Dragan Mirkovic*, Iowa State University
  Suncica Canic, Iowa State University
  (909-76-120)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Diffraction of weak shocks: Linear and weakly nonlinear scalings.
  Esteban G. Tabak*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  Ruben R. Rosales, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (909-76-128)

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