AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:01

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 2, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Properties of Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs
Room 135, Albertus Magnus Hall
Organizers:
Henri Berestycki, Universit\'e Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
Yanyan Li, Rutgers University yyli@math.rutgers.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Entire solutions of semilinear elliptic equations in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and a conjecture of De Giorgi.
  Luigi Ambrosio, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
  Xavier Cabr\'e*, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
  (947-35-41)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Averaged Equation for a Dispersion Managed Optical Fiber and its Ground State.
  Christopher K Jones*, Brown University
  Vadim Zharnitsky, Brown University
  (947-35-161)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Long-wave unstable thin film equations --- the linear and nonlinear stability of steady states .
  Richard S Laugesen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Mary C Pugh*, University of Pennsylvania
  (947-35-35)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Inverse Boundary Value Problems for Quasilinear Elliptic Equations.
  Ziqi Sun*, Wichita State University
  (947-35-141)

Saturday October 2, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Properties of Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs
Room 135, Albertus Magnus Hall
Organizers:
Henri Berestycki, Universit\'e Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
Yanyan Li, Rutgers University yyli@math.rutgers.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Harnack estimates and symmetry for elliptic systems.
  Jerome B. Busca*, Universit\'e de Tours
  (947-35-78)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Gradient estimates for laminar elliptic systems.
  YanYan Li*, Rutgers University
  Louis Nirenberg, Courant Institute
  (947-35-92)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the interaction of self-similar multi-branched vortex sheets of the 2-D Euler equations.
  Zheng-Chao Han*, Rutgers-New Brunswick
  (947-76-160)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Traveling fronts and solutions global in time of a semi-linear parabolic equation.
  Francois Hamel*, University Paris VI
  (947-35-39)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A nonlinear elliptic boundary value problem related to corrosion modeling.
  Michael S Vogelius*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (947-35-169)

Sunday October 3, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Properties of Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs
Room 135, Albertus Magnus Hall
Organizers:
Henri Berestycki, Universit\'e Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
Yanyan Li, Rutgers University yyli@math.rutgers.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Non-existence results for nonlinear equations in unbounded domains.
  Isabeau Birindelli*, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"
  (947-35-123)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Some geometric problems related to PDE's.
  Pablo Padilla*, IIMAS, UNAM
  (947-35-144)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Multi-peak solutions for a nonlinear Neumann problem.
  Changfeng Gui*, University of Connecticut and University of British Columbia
  (947-35-53)

Sunday October 3, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Properties of Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs
Room 135, Albertus Magnus Hall
Organizers:
Henri Berestycki, Universit\'e Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
Yanyan Li, Rutgers University yyli@math.rutgers.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  On a three dimensional singularly perturbed Neumann problem.
  Meijun Zhu*, The University of Oklahoma
  Nassif Ghoussoub, University of British Columbia
  Changfeng Gui, University of British Columbia
  (947-35-89)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Symmetry For Exterior Elliptic Problems and Two Conjectures In Potential Theory.
  Boyan Sirakov*, Universit\'e Paris VI
  (947-35-77)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Non-existence results for semilinear cooperative elliptic systems via moving spheres.
  Wolfgang Reichel, Universitat Basel, Switzerland
  Henghui Zou*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (947-35-42)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Traveling two and three dimensional water waves.
  Walter Craig*, Brown University
  (947-35-170)

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