54^th Midwest PDE seminar at Wayne State University

November 19-21, 2004

Preliminary Program:

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

November 19, Friday

(Coffee will be provided at 3:30pm).

1:50-2:00pm, Opening remarks by Robert Thomas, Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Lowell Hansen, Chair of Mathematics Department

2:00-2:50pm Peter Bates, Nonlocal equations arising in materials science

3:00-3:50pm Sijue Wu, Recent progress in mathematical analysis of vortex sheets

4:00-4:50pm Joe Spruck, The Monge-Ampere operator and geometric inequalities on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds

5:00-5:50pm Qing Han, Complex singular sets of holomorphic extensions of real harmonic functions

November 20, Saturday

(Coffee will be provided at 10:30am)

8:30-9:20am Laurent Saloff-Coste, Heat kernel bounds on manifolds with ends

9:30-10:20am Paul Yang, Minimal surfaces in pseudo-hermitian geometry

10:30-11:20am Weiming Ni, Recent Progress on a Singularly Perturbed Semilinear Neumann Problem

11:30-12:20am Gang Tian, Asmptotic behavior of the Yang-Mills flow

12:30-2:30 Lunch Break

(Coffee will be provided at 3:30pm) 

2:30-3:20pm Guozhen Lu, Some results on sharp constants for Moser-Trudinger inequalities in CR setting

3:30-4:20pm Bo Guan, Entire spacelike graphs of prescribed Gauss curvature in Minkowski space

4:30-5:20pm Lihe Wang, TBA.

5:30-6:20pm Andrzej Swiech, Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations for optimal control of stochastic Navier-Stokes equations.

7:00pm Banquet at St. Regis Hotel (participants who wish to attend the banquet must inform us by November 15 to finalize the head count and please pay to Ms. Lijing Sun on Friday or Saturday).

November 21, Sunday

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(Coffee will be provided at 10:30am) 

8:30-9:20am Cristian Gutierrez, On Monge-Ampere type equations arising in optimal transportation

9:30-10:20am Guiqiang Chen, Conservation Laws and Divergence-Measure Fields

10:30-11:20am Qingbo Huang, On the mean oscillation of second derivatives of solutions to the Monge-Ampere equation

11:30-12:20am Carlos Kenig, Anderson local model and quantitative unique continuation

Closing remarks (5 minutes)