Special Year 2008-09: Geometric Partial Differential Equations - Seminar

Mini-Course in Geometric PDE

January 22, 2009 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

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...

Geometric PDE Seminar

January 20, 2009 | 3:30pm - 4:30pm

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...

Geometric PDE Seminar

January 20, 2009 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

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...

Mini-Course in Geometric PDE

January 15, 2009 | 3:30pm - 4:30pm

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...

Mini-Course in Geometric PDE

January 15, 2009 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

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...

Geometric PDE Seminar

January 13, 2009 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

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...

Geometric PDE Seminar

December 18, 2008 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm

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...

Geometric PDE Seminar

December 18, 2008 | 1:30pm - 2:30pm

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.

Geometric PDE Seminar

December 16, 2008 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm

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