Previous Special Year Seminar

Jan
20
2009

Geometric PDE Seminar

Non-Local Minimal surfaces
Jean-Michel Roquejoffre
3:30pm|S-101

We discuss the local properties of the boundaries of sets whose indicator function is a local minimizer of a Sobolev norm of exponent strictly less than 1/2. It turns out that one devise a regularity that parallels very much that of de Giorgi for...

Jan
20
2009

Geometric PDE Seminar

Fractional Diffusion Limit for Kinetic Equations
Antoine Mellet
2:00pm|S-101

We will discuss diffusion limits for linear Boltzmann equations. When the equilibrium distribution function is a Maxwellian distribution, it is well known that for an appropriate time scale, the small mean free path limit gives rise to a diffusion...

Jan
15
2009

Mini-Course in Geometric PDE

Issues in Homogenization for Problems with Nondivergence Structure
3:30pm|S-101

When we look at a differential equation in a very irregular media (composite material, mixed solutions, etc.) from very close, we may see a very complicated problem. However, if we look from far away we may not see the details and the problem may...

Jan
15
2009

Mini-Course in Geometric PDE

Issues in Homogenization for Problems with Nondivergence Structure
2:00pm|S-101

When we look at a differential equation in a very irregular media (composite material, mixed solutions, etc.) from very close, we may see a very complicated problem. However, if we look from far away we may not see the details and the problem may...

Jan
13
2009

Geometric PDE Seminar

Minimally Invasive Surgery for Ricci Flow Singularities
Don Knopf
3:00pm|S-101

If a solution (M,g(t)) of Ricci flow develops a local singularity at a finite time T , then there is a proper subset S of M on which the curvature becomes infinite as time approaches T . Existing approaches to Ricci-flow-with-surgery, due to...

Jan
13
2009

Geometric PDE Seminar

Blow-Up Profile for Q-Curvature Equations
Yongzhang Xu
2:00pm|S-101

In this talk, I will describe the blow-up profile for Q-curvature equations and related work.

Dec
18
2008

Geometric PDE Seminar

Conformal Geometry of Differential Equations
Pawel Nurowski
2:30pm|S-101

Given two differential equations it is often useful to know invariants which guarantee that there exists a transformation of variables (independent, dependent or both) that transforms one of the equations into the other. Recently it has been...

Dec
18
2008

Geometric PDE Seminar

On Neck Pinching Under Mean Curveature Flow
Israel Michael Sigal
1:30pm|S-101

In this talk we describe some recent result as well as the work in progress on the neck pinching of surfaces under under mean curvature flow.

Dec
16
2008

Geometric PDE Seminar

Existence and Uniqueness of Meissner State Solutions to Nonselfdual Chern-Simons-Higgs Equation
2:30pm|S-101

In this talk, we prove existence and uniqueness of vortexless solutions for Chern-Simons-Higgs equation in nonselfdual case.

Dec
16
2008

Geometric PDE Seminar

Differential Complexes in Conformal Geometry
Rod Gover
1:30pm|S-101

The de Rham complex is a prototype for a large class of sequences of differential operators often called (generalized) Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand BGG sequences. Conformal manifolds admit such sequences and on locally conformally flat manifolds the...