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September 18-20, 2008
Conference on Non-linear Phenomena in Mathematical Physics:
Dedicated to Cathleen Synge Morawetz
on her 85th birthday
to be held at
Fields Institute,
222 College Street, Toronto
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Co-sponsored by:
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Organizing Committee
Jim Colliander (University of Toronto), Susan Friedlander
(University of Southern California)
Irene M. Gamba (U. Texas at Austin) - Committee Chair, Fern
Hunt (NIST)
Barbara L. Keyfitz (Fields Institute, Canada), Walter Strauss
(Brown University)
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The list of invited speakers includes:
Claude Bardos, ( Paris VI)
Lia Bronsard, (McMaster)
Suncica Canic, (Houston)
Gui Qiang Chen, (Northwestern)
Costas Dafermos, ( Brown)
Susan Friedlander (Southern California)
Irene M. Gamba (Texas at Austin)
Manoussos Grillakis, (Maryland)
Yan Guo (Brown)
Tom Hou (CalTech) |
Izabella Laba, (British Columbia)
Peter Lax, (Courant)
Louis Nirenberg, (Courant)
Kevin Payne, (Milano)
Jalal Shatah, (Courant)
Sylvia Serfaty, (Courant & Universite Pierre et Marie
Curie).
G. Staffilani, (MIT)
Walter Strauss (Brown University)
S.R.S Varadhan (Courant)
H.T Yau (Harvard) |
POSTER SESSION
Students and postdoctoral fellows are invited to make poster submissions.
Poster boards will be available on site 36" X 42". There
will not be any provision for contributed talks at the meeting.
However, any participant who wishes to present a poster is invited
to submit a title and abstract by August 15.
BANQUET IN HONOUR OF CATHLEEN MORAWETZ,
September 19, 2008.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT: Support for graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows to cover travel and local expenses will be available through
the Fields Institute. The application deadline is August 1, 2008.
PROGRAM
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| Thursday September 18, 2008 |
| Morning Session |
| 8:00 - 8:45am |
Check-In/Continental Breakfast ( hosted by Fields) |
| 8:45 - 9:00am |
Barbara Keyfitz, Fields Institute Director
Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 9:00 - 9:40am |
Walter Strauss, Brown University
Two Problems: Nonlinear
Wave Scattering and Plasma Stability |
| 9:45 - 10:25am |
Claude Bardos, University of Paris VI,
France
Remarks on Navier Stokes
and Euler Equation |
| 10:30 – 10:50am |
Break |
| 10:50 - 11:30am |
Costas Dafermos, Brown University
Hyperbolic Conservation
Laws with Weak Dissipation |
| 11:35am – 12:15pm |
Sylvia Serfaty, Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences, NYU and Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
From the Ginzburg-Landau
energy to vortex lattice problems |
| 12:20 - 2:15pm |
Lunch (on your own) |
| Afternoon Session |
| 2:15-2:55pm |
Louis Nirenberg, Courant Institute
of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Some remarks on nonlinear
second order elliptic equations. |
| 3:00-3:20pm |
Coffee Break |
| 3:20-4:00pm |
Gigliola Staffilani, MIT
Kato's smoothing effect
for solutions to the  capillary water-wave problem. |
| 4:00– 6:00 pm |
Reception (cash bar) and Poster Session |
| Friday September 19, 2008 |
| Morning Session |
| 8:15 - 9:00am |
Continental
Breakfast ( hosted by Fields) |
| 9:00 - 9:40am |
Peter Lax, Courant
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Spectral Representation and
Translation Representation. |
| 9:45 – 10:25am |
Yan Guo, Brown University
Boltzmann equation in bounded
domains.
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| 10:30 – 10:50am |
Break |
| 10:50-11:30 am |
Irene M. Gamba, The University of Texas at Austin
Sharp estimates for the
Boltzmann Equation
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| 11:35-12:15 pm |
Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern
University, USA
Shock Reflection-Diffraction
Phenomena, Transonic Flow, and Free Boundary Problems |
| 12:20 - 2:15pm |
Lunch (on your own) |
| Afternoon Session |
| 2:15-2:55pm |
Horng-Tzer Yau, Harvard University
Lower bounds on the blow-up
rate of the axisymmetric Navier-Stokes equations |
| 3:00-3:20pm |
Coffee Break |
| 3:20-4:00pm |
Susan Friedlander, University
of Southern California
Energy Conservation
and Onsager's Conjecture for the Euler Equations |
| 4:05-4:15 pm |
Break |
| 4:15-4:55pm |
Tom Hou, CalTech
On the stabilizing effect of
convection in 3D incompressible flows |
| 6:30pm |
Banquet dinner at the Faculty Club |
| Saturday September 20, 2008 |
| Morning Session |
| 8:15 - 9:00am |
Continental Breakfast ( hosted by
Fields) |
| 9:00 - 9:40am |
S.R.S Varadhan, Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences, NYU
Large deviations for Random
walks in a Random Environment |
| 9:45 – 10:25am |
Izabella Laba, The University of British
Columbia
Arithmetic progressions in
sets of fractional dimension |
| 10:30 – 10:50am |
Break |
| 10:50-11:30 am |
Manoussos Grillakis, The University of
Maryland
Correlation Estimates
and Applications to Schroedinger Equations |
| 11:35 – 12:15pm |
Jalal Shatah, Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences, NYU
The Method of Space-time Resonances |
| 12:20 - 2:15pm |
Lunch (on your own) |
| Afternoon session |
| 2:15-2:55pm |
Lia Bronsard, McMaster University
On the mixed state in anisotropic
superconductors |
| 3:00-3:20pm |
Coffee Break |
| 3:15 – 3:55pm |
Kevin Payne, Universita di
Milano
Weak well-posedness of the
Dirichlet problem for equations of mixed elliptic-hyperbolic
type |
| 4:00 |
Closing remarks |
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Sunny Canic, Houston University (unable
to attend) |
PARTICIPANT LIST
| Fullname |
University Name |
| Alonso, Ricardo |
University of Texas |
| Bae, Hantaek |
Courant Institute |
| Bardos, Claude |
Universite de Paris 6 et Paris 7 |
| Bociu, Lorena |
University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Bronsard, Lia |
McMaster University |
| Canic, Suncica |
University of Houston |
| Cerezo, Richard |
University of Toronto |
| Challal, Samia |
Fields Institute |
| Chen, Gui-Qiang |
Northwestern University |
| Cheng, Bin |
University of Michigan |
| Chugunova, Marina |
University of Toronto |
| Colliander, James |
University of Toronto |
| Dafermos, Constantine |
Brown University |
| D'Ambroise, Jennie |
University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Davis, Chandler |
University of Toronto |
| Ding, Qian |
Northwestern University |
| Friedlander, Susan |
University of Southern California |
| Galvão-Sousa, Bernardo |
McMaster University |
| Gamba, Irene |
University of Texas |
| Grillakis, Manoussos |
University of Maryland |
| Guevara, Cristi Darley |
Arizona State University |
| Guo, Yan |
Brown University |
| Hou, Thomas |
Caltech |
| Hunt, Fern |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Keyfitz, Barbara |
University of Houston and Fields Institute |
| Klingenberg, Christian |
Wurzburg University |
| Laba, Izabella |
University of British Columbia |
| Lax, Peter |
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
| Li, Tong |
University of Iowa |
| Lupo, Daniela |
Politecnico di Milano |
| Molahajloo, Shahla |
York University |
| Momeni, Abbas |
Queen's University |
| Moore, Matthew |
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill |
| Morawetz Jeck, Lida |
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| Morawetz, John S. |
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| Morawetz, Nancy |
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| Nirenberg, Louis |
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
| Payne, Kevin |
Universita` degli Studi di Milano |
| Popivanov, Nedyu |
"St. Kl. Ohridski" University of Sofia |
| Radu, Petronela |
University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Riehm, Carl |
McMaster University |
| Rubinstein, Pegeen |
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| Ruskai, Mary Beth |
Tufts Unvierstiy |
| Serfaty, Sylvia |
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
| Sever, Michael |
The Hebrew University |
| Shatah, Jalal M.I. |
Courant Institute |
| Sinclair, Tony |
University of Toronto |
| Staffilani, Gigliola |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Strauss, Walter |
Brown University |
| Suazo, Erwin |
Arizona State University |
| Sulem, Catherine |
University of Toronto |
| Synge Morawetz, Cathleen |
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU |
| Thoren, Elizabeth |
University of Texas at Austin |
| Varadhan, S.R.S. |
Courant Institute of Mathematics |
| Vicol, Vlad |
University of Southern California |
| Walker, Homer |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Warchall, Henry |
National Science Foundation |
| Yau, Horng-Tzer |
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
| Zhao, Guowei |
SUNY-Buffalo |
| To Be Confirmed |
| Ryabukha, Tatiana |
Institute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine |
| Wu, Sijue |
University of Michigan |
| Hougland, Juliet |
Reed College |
| Abou Salem, Walid |
University of Toronto |
| Cami, Ermira |
Virginia Polytech Inst and State Univ. |
| Kim, Eunheui |
California State University Long Beach |
| Pan, Wu San |
Rust College |
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