55th Midwest PDE Seminar April 9-10, 2005, at Purdue

The 55th Midwest Partial Differential Equations Seminar will be hosted by the Mathematics Department of Purdue University, April 9-10, 2005.

Speakers:

• Andrea Bertozzi, University of California Los Angeles, "Processing images with nonlinear PDEs"
• Jerry Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Initial-boundary-value problems for nonlinear waves"
• James Colliander, University of Toronto, "On rough blowup solutions of L² critical NLS"
• Georg Dolzmann, University of Maryland, "A 2D compressible membrane theory as a Gamma-limit of a nonlinear elasticity model for incompressible membranes in 3D"
• Marius Mitrea, University of Missouri-Columbia, "Sharp estimates for Green potentials and a solution of the Chang-Krantz-Stein conjecture"
• Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland, "On a multidimensional model for the dynamic combustion of compressible reacting fluids"
• Daniel Spirn, University of Minnesota, "Dynamics of superfluid vortices."
• Gunther Uhlmann. University of Washington, "Travel time tomography"

Schedule of speakers

Accommodations. Blocks of rooms are are being held at the following two hotels. Mention that you are attending the Midwest PDE Seminar hosted by the Purdue Mathematics Department to get the quoted rates.

• Union Club Hotel
  • located on the corner of State and Grant Streets, (on campus)
  • Phone: 1-800-320-6291
  • Website: http://www.union.purdue.edu/html/PMUC.html
  • Rates: $83-single, $89-double. Block held until March 29.
• Holiday Inn Select City Centre
  • 515 South Street, Downtown Lafayette (one mile from campus)
  • Phone: 1-800-423-1137
  • Website: http://www.hiscc.com/
  • Rates: $95-single or double. Block held until March 1.

Campus map: http://www.purdue.edu/oop/campus_map/areas/abc_456.html

Lafayette map: http://www.lafayette-in.com/drivingmaps.html

Limited support for out-of-town graduate students and postdocs is available. See Midwest PDE Application for Financial Support

Organizers: P.Bauman, M.Chen, D.Danielli, N.Garofalo, A.Petrosyan, D.Phillips, A.Sa Barreto, P.Stefanov, A.Yip.

The 55th Midwest Partial Differential Equations Seminar is partially funded by the National Science Foundation and Purdue University Department of Mathematics.

If you have any questions please contact Dan Phillips phillips@math.purdue.edu