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 at some other times. 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 Volker Elling.

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

(Click here for previous semesters' schedules.)

Fall 2009 Seminar Schedule:

Date  Speaker  Title (click on title to view abstract, if available)
September 17  Divakar Viswanath
Umich		 Complex singularities and the Lorenz attractor
September 24  Chunjing Xie
Umich		 Classical Solutions of Two Dimensional Inviscid Rotating Shallow Water System
October 1 Barbara Keyfitz
Ohio State		 The sonic line as a free boundary: Stability under perturbations
October 8  Todd Kapitula
Calvin College		 Orbital stability of periodic waves for generalized KdV
October 15  Jeffrey Rauch
Umich		 Finite Speed and Uniqueness in the Cauchy Problem for Symmetrizable Hyperbolic Systems
October 22 Folkmar Bornemann
TU Munich		 Fredholm determinants versus Painlevé equations: a numerical perspective with applications
October 29  Cedric Villani
ENS Lyon		 Landau damping: relaxation without dissipation (part of the Ziwet lecture series)
November 5 Joel Smoller
Umich		 Error Estimates for Approximate Solutions of the Riccati Equation with Real or Complex Potentials
November 12 Qing Han
Notre Dame		 The Linearized System for Isometric Embeddings and Its Characteristic Variety
November 17
Tuesday
EH 4088		 Zhouping Xin
Chinese Univ. Hong Kong		 On Multi-Dimensional Steady Transonic Shocks
November 19 Alexander Volberg
Michigan State 		Stochastic Control for Harmonic analysis
November 26 (Thanksgiving break: no talk)
 
December 3
 (no talk) See the Colloquium talk of Craig Evans
December 10 Gabor Francsics
Michigan State		  
December 17 
  
 

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