NSF-CBMS conference on Free Boundary Problems in PDEs at Wayne State University

May 18-22, 2003

Preliminary Program:

May 17, Saturday:

6:00-8:00pm, Registration and reception at St. Regis Hotel (cheese and fruits on the house and cash bar for wines)

All other scientific programs will be at Law School, Room 1515

May 18, Sunday:

8:15-8:45am, Registration and Coffee

8:45-9:00am, Opening remarks by John Oliver, Vice President for Research and Lowell Hansen, Chair of Math Dept

9:00-9:50am D. Jerison Lecture I

10:50-11:40am F. Lin Travelling wave solution of Schrodinger map equation

11:40-12:20 Questions and discussion

Lunch Break

2:30-3:20pm D. Jerison Lecture II

3:30-4:00 Registration and Coffee

4:00-4:50pm C. Kenig A Liouville theorem for general viscous scalar conservation laws, Part I

5:00-6:00pm Questions and Discussion

May 19, Monday:

8:30-9:00am, Coffee

9:00-9:50am D. Jerison Lecture III

10:20-11:10am C. Kenig A Liouville theorem for general viscous scalar conservation laws, Part II

11:10-11:40 Coffee

11:40-12:30am P. Guan A conformal curvature flow and geometric inequalities

Lunch Break

2:30-3:20pm D. Jerison Lecture IV

3:30-4:00pm Coffee

4:00-4:50pm S. Chanillo Concentration and blow-up phenomena for the H-surface equation, Part I

5:00-6:00pm Questions and Discussion

May 20, Tuesday:

8:30-9:00am, Coffee

9:00-9:50am D. Jerison Lecture V

10:20-11:10am S. Chanillo Concentration and blow-up phenomena for the H-surface equation, Part II

11:10-11:40 Coffee

11:40-12:30am B. Bazaliy Existence and stability of solution to the free boundary problem for elliptic-parabolic system

Lunch Break

2:30-3:20pm D. Jerison Lecture VI

3:30-4:00pm Coffee

4:00-4:50pm F. Lin Remarks on a singular elliptic equation

5:00-6:00pm Questions and Discussion

May 21, Wednesday

8:30-9:00am, Coffee

9:00-9:50am D. Jerison Lecture VII

10:20-11:10am L. Caffarelli A free boundary problem on optimal transportation

11:10-11:40 Coffee

11:40-12:30am L. Caffarelli Free boundaries in periodic media

Lunch Break

2:30-3:20pm D. Jerison Lecture VIII

3:30-4:00pm Coffee

4:00-4:50pm O. Savin On a conjecture of De Giorgi

4:50-5:30pm Questions and Discussion

Banquet Dinner 6:30-8:30pm at St. Regis Hotel

May 22, Thursday

8:30-9:00am, Coffee

9:00-9:50am D. Jerison Lecture IX

10:30-11:20am D. Jerison Lecture X

Questions and Discussion (20 minutes)

Closing remarks (5 minutes)