Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
PDE Seminar
Year 2005-2006

Thursday, November 3, 2005

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Henri Berestycki, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Title: Reaction-diffusion equations and propagation phenomena in heterogeneous environment
Special Note: co-sponsored with FIG
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 17, 2005

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Jian-Guo Liu, University of Maryland; Title: Stability and convergence of efficient Navier-Stokes solvers via a commutator estimate
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Thursday, December 1, 2005

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh; Title: On Some Two-Dimensional Problems of Conservation Laws
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Thursday, January 5, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Roman Shvydkoy, UIC; Title: Shortwave instabilities of ideal fluid and the cocycle theory
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Monica Visan, UCLA; Title: The defocusing energy-critical nonlinear Schrodinger equation.
Special Note: Special PDE Seminar
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Thursday, January 12, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Mikhail Pereplitsa, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Title: The existence of weak, small energy solutions for the equations of motion of 3D compressible, viscous fluid flows with the no-slip boundary conditions
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Friday, January 13, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor David Hoff, Indiana University; Title: Uniqueness of Weak Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations of\r\nMultidimensional, Compressible Flow
Special Note: Special PDE Seminar
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Thursday, January 19, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Jane McDougall, Colorado College; Title: Harmonic Maps onto Polygonal Domains and Minimal Surfaces
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Julie Rowlett, Stanford University; Title: Spectral Geometry and Asymptotically Conic Convergence
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Thursday, February 2, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Vera Hur, Brown University; Title: Rotational Stokes waves: construction via degree/bifurcation theory
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Thursday, March 2, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Wolfgang Staubach, University of Chicago; Title: Estimates for pseudodifferential operators with low regularity and applications
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Thursday, March 30, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Christian Klingenberg, University of Wuerzburg (Germany); Title: Numerical methods for equations of fluid mechanics
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Monday, April 17, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 3:00pm: Professor Daomin Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Title: Nonsymmetric Positive Solutions for Symmetric Dirichlet Elliptic Problems
Special Note: This is a joint PDE and Analysis/Probability Seminar
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Thursday, May 11, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Professor Hongjie Dong , University of Chicago; Title: Regularity of solutions to the heat equations near singular boundary points
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Thursday, May 18, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Joachim Krieger, Harvard; Title: Recent developments on global existence and breakdown of Wave Maps in the critical dimension
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Thursday, May 25, 2006

PDE Seminar Lunt 105, 4:10pm: Laura Spinolo, SISSA ( Italy); Title: The boundary Riemann solver coming from the real vanishing viscosity approximation
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