Analysis and applications of evolutionary PDEs

Inaugural IAMIS workshop at UC Riverside

Weekend of 5-6 May 2012





Saturday 5 May

Schedule

8:30-9:00 Coffee and registration
   
9:00-9:45 Sébastien Motsch, CSCAMM
 
  Mathematical modeling of self-organized dynamics: from microscopic to macroscopic description
   
9:50-10:35 Vladislav Panferov, Cal State Northridge
 
  Phase transitions in models of Vlasov-McKean type
   
  Break
 
10:55-11:40 Inwon Kim, UCLA
 
  Droplet spreading on a surface with random obstacles
   
11:45-12:30 Toan Nguyen, Brown
  On the stability of boundary layers in the Navier-Stokes equations
   
  Lunch
   
2:30-3:15 Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA
 
  Particle laden flow - applications from the Gulf oil spill to spiral concentrators
 
 
3:20-4:05 Björn Birnir, UCSB
 
  The Kolmogorov-Obukov theory of turbulence
   
  Break
   
4:25-5:10 Eun Heui Kim, Cal State Long Beach
 
  Transonic problems for multidimensional conservation laws
 

 

5:15-6:00 Thomas Sideris, UCSB
 
  Almost global existence of small solutions for 2D incompressible Hookean elastodynamics
   
  Dinner

 


Sunday 6 May

Preliminary Schedule

9:00-9:45 Andrew Bernoff, Harvey Mudd
 
  A Primer of Swarm Equilibria
   
9:50-10:35 Hailiang Liu, Iowa State
 
  On the FENE dumbbell model of polymeric flows
   
  Break
 
10:55-11:40 Gautam Iyer, Carnegie Mellon
 
  From homogenization to averaging in cellular flows
   
11:45-12:30 Steve Shkoller, UC Davis
  On the finite-time splash and splat singularities for the 3-D free-surface Euler equations