55th Midwest Partial Differential Equations Seminar

Purdue University
Department of Mathematics

Saturday and Sunday, April 9-10, 2005
Room 175, Mathematical Sciences Building (MATH)
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Seminar Schedule

Saturday, April 9
9:30-10 a.m.
 Coffee and bagels: Library Lounge, 3rd Floor, MATH
10-11 a.m.
Gunther Uhlmann. University of Washington, "Travel time tomography"
Coffee Break
  
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland, "On a multidimensional model for the dynamic combustion of compressible reacting fluids"
Lunch Break
  
2-3 p.m.
Marius Mitrea, University of Missouri-Columbia, "Sharp estimates for Green potentials and a solution of the Chang-Krantz-Stein conjecture"
3:15-4:15 p.m.
Daniel Spirn, University of Minnesota, "Dynamics of superfluid vortices."
Coffee Break
  
4:45-5:45 p.m. Jerry Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Initial-boundary-value problems for nonlinear waves"

Sunday, April 10

8:30-9 a.m.
Coffee and bagels, Library Lounge, 3rd Floor, MATH
9-10 a.m.
 Georg Dolzmann, University of Maryland , "A 2D compressible membrane theory as a Gamma-limit of a nonlinear elasticity model for incompressible membranes in 3D"
Coffee Break
  
10:20-11:20 a.m.
James Colliander, University of Toronto, "On rough blowup solutions of L2 critical NLS"
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Andrea Bertozzi, University of California, Los Angeles, "Processing images with nonlinear PDEs"