The 71st Midwest Partial Differential Equations Seminar May 11-12, 2013 Rooms 1360, 1084 and 1068 East Hall University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI   Speakers Name Affiliation Baskin, Dean Northwestern University Strichartz estimates on exterior polygonal domains Blass, Timothy Carnegie Mellon University Stochastically induced Faraday waves Buckingham, Robert University of Cincinnati Universal Painleve-type critical behavior in the semiclassical sine-Gordon equation Calderer, Maria-Carme University of Minnesota Mathematical modeling and analysis of liquid crystal systems Cheng, Yingda Michigan State University Energy conserving numerical schemes for Vlasov Ampere and Vlasov Maxwell systems Choi, Kyudong University of Wisconsin-Madison Relative entropy applied to the stability of viscous shocks up to a translation for scalar conservation laws Ciomaga, Adina University of Chicago Mixed Integro-Differential Equations Hall, Brian University of Notre Dame Large-N limit of the heat equation on unitary groups Hernandez-Duenas, Gerardo Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin Minimal models for precipitating turbulent convection Hur, Vera Mikyoung University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign On the Benjamin-Feir instability Its, Alexander IUPUI Integrable Initial Boundary Value Problems Revisited Kirkpatrick, Kay University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bose-Einstein condensation, the nonlinear Schrodinger equation, and a central limit theorem LaVictoire, Patrick University of Wisconsin-Madison Convolution Powers as a Fourier Transform Alternative Liu, Baoping University of Chicago Low-regularity local wellposedness of Chern-Simons-Schroedinger System Lundberg, Erik Purdue University A free boundary problem for the Laplace equation Munoz, Claudio University of Chicago On the stability of breathers Perry, Peter University of Kentucky Integrable Nonlinear Equations in Two Dimensions Schwartz, Fernando University of Tennessee Geometric Inequalities for Hypersurfaces Simpson, Gideon University of Minnesota Solitons & Singularities in a Generalized Derivative Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation Sulem, Catherine Universtity of Toronto Lower bound for the rate of blow-up of singular solutions of the three-dimensional Zakharov system Yao, Yao University of Wisconsin Madison Quasi-static evolution and congested crowd motion YILDIRIM YOLCU, SELMA PURDUE UNIVERSITY Trace Asymptotics for Non-local operators   Sponsors Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan