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Continuum Mechanics and Non-linear Partial Differential Equations
Organizers:
Richard James
Stefan Mueller
Vladimir Sverák
A workshop held in honor of John Ball on the occasion of his 50th birthday.
This meeting brought together leading experts in nonlinear PDE and Continuum Mechanics. The workshop was supported in part by the Max Planck Research Award from the Humboldt foundation, by the School of Mathematics of the University of Minnesota and by the IMA.
Click on the titles to find abstracts and/or links to presentation materials
| SCHEDULE for MONDAY, JUNE 8 | ||
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| W. Miller, F. Dulles, R. James |
Welcome and Orientation | |
| Jerry Marsden, California Institute of Technology |
Computational Mechanics and Collision Algorithms | |
| Felix Otto, University of California-Santa Barbara |
Fingering instability of fluid flow down an inclined plane: an intrinsic linear stability analysis | |
| Weinan E, Courant Institute |
Pattern Formation During Liquid Crystal Phase Transition | |
| Philip Holmes, Princeton University |
Two Models From Nonlinear Optics | |
| SCHEDULE for TUESDAY, JUNE 9 | ||
| Constantine Dafermos, Brown University |
Genuinely Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems of Two Conservation Laws | |
| Louis Nirenberg, Courant Institute |
On poperties of solutions of second order elliptic equations | |
| Igor Kukavica, University of Chicago |
Analyticity for the Navier-Stokes Equations | |
| Maria Esteban, Université Paris Dauphine |
About the Evolution of Solid Bodies in an Incompressible Fluid | |
| SCHEDULE for WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10 | ||
| François Murat, Université Paris 6 |
To be announced | |
| L. C. Young |
Nature & Applications of Young Measures | |
| SCHEDULE for THURSDAY, JUNE 11 | ||
| David Kinderlehrer, Carnegie Mellon University |
Remarks about the dynamics of the Fokker-Planck Equation | |
| Gero Friesecke, University of Oxford |
Existence and Nonexistence of Minimizers in the Calculus of Variations | |
| Zhouping Xin, Courant Institute |
To be announced | |
| Bernard Dacorogna, EPFL-Lausanne |
Some Geometric Restrictions for the Existence of Viscosity Solutions | |
| SCHEDULE for FRIDAY, JUNE 12 | ||
| Stuart Anman, University of Maryland |
Quasilinear Parabolic-Hyperbolic Systems from Solid Mechanics | |
| K. Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology |
To be announced | |
| Mitch Luskin, University of Minnesota |
On the Stability of Crystal Microstructure | |
| Peter Constantin, University of Chicago |
Variational Bounds in Turbulence | |
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