Seminar Program

The Midwest PDE Seminar will be hosted by the Mathematics Department of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, during the weekend of November 7 and 8, 2009.

All talks will be in the Mathematical Sciences Bldg., Room 175.

Coffee will be served in the Library Lounge , 3rd floor, Math Sciences Bldg.

Schedule

Saturday , November 7

9:30-10:00: Coffee and doughnuts

10:00-11:00: Lia Bronsard, McMaster University, "On the mixed state in anisotropic superconductors"

11:00-11:30: Coffee

11:30-12:30: Bo Guan, Ohio State University, "Complex Monge-Ampere equation and totally real submanifolds"

12:30-2:00: Lunch break

2:00-3:00: Changyou Wang, University of Kentucky, "On two dimensional hydrodynamic flow of liquid crystals"

3:10-4:10: Ian Tice, Brown University, "Ginzburg-Landau vortex dynamics driven by an applied boundary current"

4:10-4:35: Coffee Break

4:35-5:35: Michael Westdickenberg, Georgia Tech, "Optimal Transport for the System of Isentropic Euler Equation"

Sunday , November 8

8:00-8:15: Coffee and doughnuts

8:15-9:15: Bruce Driver, University of California, San Diego, "Integrated Harnack Inequalities"

9:15-9:40: Coffee

9:40-10:40: Marta Lewicka, University of Minnesota, "Morphogenesis of elastic tissues: scaling laws and limiting theories"

10:50-11:50: Panagiotis Souganidis, University of Chicago, "Molecular motors and asymmetric potentials: A homogenization approach"