Differential Equations Seminar 

Thursdays, 4:10-5:00pm, 4088 East Hall
 

 

The Differential Equations seminar in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Michigan meets (unless otherwise noted) on Thursday afternoons at 4:10pm in 4088 East Hall. . Occasionally, the seminar meets on Mondays at 4pm in 3866EH. The special time is noted on this webpage, please check the time schedule carefully before you go to the seminar.

Tea is served at 3:45pm in the Math Common Room on the second floor.

If you want to receive email announcements of talks please contact Sijue Wu.

For more information, contact Volker Elling , Joel Smoller , or Sijue Wu.

(Click here for previous semesters' schedules.)

Winter 2008 Seminar Schedule:

Date  Speaker  Title (click on title to view abstract, if available)
Jan. 10   Joel Smoller
Umich		   Nonlinear Dynamical Stability of Rotating White Dwarfs and Supermassive Stars
Jan. 17   Ovidiu Calin
EMU 		  Finding Heat Kernels using Geometric Mechanics
Jan. 24  Mohar Guha
Umich.		   Front Propagation in a Noisy, Nonsmooth, Excitable Medium
Jan. 31 
 Peter Smereka
Umich. 		  Long Time Behavior of a Modified Becker-D\"oring System
Feb. 7 
 Frank Merle
Paris Cergy-Pontoise 		  Collision of solitons in the nonintegrable case for GKdV
Feb. 14 
 Tony Bloch
Umich. 		  Hill's equation with random forcing terms
Feb. 21 
 Roger Temam
Indiana U. 		  The three-dimensional linearized Primitive Equations of the atmosphere and the oceans
March 6   Charlie Doering
Umich.		   Statistically Stationary Stirring with Steady Sources and Sinks
March 13  Tao Luo
Georgetown University & Worcester Polytechnic Inst.		   Transonic Shock Solutions for a System of Euler-Poisson Equations
March 20
 Fei-Ran Tian
OSU		   Initial Value Problem of the Whitham equations for the Camassa-Holm equation
March 27 
 Sijue Wu
Umich.		   Almost global wellposedness of the 2-D full water wave equation
April 3   David Hoff
Indiana U.		   Analyticity in time and backward uniqueness of weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations of multidimensional, compressible flow
April 10   Li Chen
Tsinghua/Harvard		   Analysis on Some Parabolic Systems (strongly coupled or higher order)
April 12   10am--5:30pm
  Great Lakes SIAM Spring Meeting 2008

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