Special Year 2008-09: Geometric Partial Differential Equations

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.