Northwestern Nonlinear PDE Conference
October 4-6, 2002
All plenary lectures will be 45 minutes. The conference will
take place in Leverone Hall G40 (the Stern Classroom) of Kellogg
School of Management, 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston (near the corner between
Sheridan Road and Foster Street).
For more details about the location, please see
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news/directions/
SCHEDULE: October 4: Friday,
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October 4: Friday
2:30pm-3:00pm: Tea & Coffee (near Leverone Hall G40, the Stern Classroom)
3:00pm: Remarks and Announcements
3:10pm: Peter Lax
Dispersive Equations and the Zero Dispersion Limit
4:00pm-4:10pm: Tea Break
4:10pm: Neil Trudinger
Boundary Value Problems for the Affine Maximal Surface Equation
5:00pm-5:05pm: Break
5:05pm: Richard Melrose
Elliptic Operators on Singular Spaces
6:20pm-7:10pm:
After Talk Drinks at the Allen Center (Far North on the First Floor)
on Evanston campus, 2169 N. Campus Drive.
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October 5: Saturday
8:30am-9:00am: Tea &Coffee
9:00am: Avner Friedman
Mathematical Challenges in Cancer Models
9:50am: Paul Rabinowitz
On Some Results of Moser and of Bangert
10:40am-11:00am: Tea
Break
11:00am: Constantine Dafermos
A New Approach to the Riemann Problem for Hyperbolic
Conservation Laws
11:50am: Xinfu Chen
Traveling Waves in a Competition Model
12:40pm-2:10: Lunch
2:10pm: Luis Caffarelli
Some PDE Problems in Periodic Media
3:00pm: Bjorn Engquist
Computing High Frequency Wave Propagation
3:50pm-4:10pm: Tea Break
4:10pm: James Glimm
Uncertainty Quantification and Error Models for
Numerical Solution Error
5:00pm: Salah Baouendi
Some Regularity Results for Mappings Between Real Submanifolds
in Complex Space
7:15pm:
Conference Dinner Party
in honor of Avner Friedman who was the organizer
of the first Midwest PDE Seminar (May 7-8, 1977).
It will be in the Atrium Dining Room, the Allen Center on Evanston campus,
2169 N. Campus Dr.
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October 6: Sunday
8:30am-9:00am: Tea & Coffee
9:00am: Tai-Ping Liu
Energy Method for Boltzmann Equation
9:50am: Cathleen Morawetz
Linear Transonic Flow Problems
10:40am-11:00am: Tea
Break
11:00am: Michael Crandall
Deriving the $L^\infty$ Euler Equation
11:50am: Fernando Reitch
Shape Deformations and Analytic Continuation in
Free Boundary Problems
12:40pm-2:10pm:
Lunch
2:10pm: Fanghua Lin
Some Thoughts on Born-Infeld-Einstein Equations
3:00pm: Jerry Bona
Stability, Instability, and Singularities in Nonlinear Wave
Equations
3:50pm-4:00pm: Tea Break
4:00pm: Bei Hu
A PDE Model from Angiogenesis
4:50pm: Carlos Kenig
Full Regularity in 3-dimensions for Variational Solutions to
Two-Phase Free Boundary Problems
5:50pm: End of the Conference