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Workshop in Mathematical Physics
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April 20-21, 2006
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The workshop in
Mathematical Physics aims at bringing together the researchers in
mathematical physics in order to understand the state of the art in
mathematical physics and discuss promising research directions in
Conservation Laws, Kinetic Equations, Nonlinear PDE's
Applications in Hydrodynamics, Theory of Elasticity, and
Fiber Optics.
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Organizers:
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Pavel Dubovski and Michael Zabarankin
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology
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Date:
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April 20-21, 2006
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Place:
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Fielding Conference
Room, 3d floor, Howe Center, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken,
New Jersey, 07030
(across from Manhattan)
The campus map
and driving
directions
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Website:
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http://personal.stevens.edu/~pdubovsk/mathphysics.html
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E-mail:
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pdubovsk@stevens.edu
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Program:
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Thursday, April 20
Friday, April 21
Abstracts
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Program: Thursday, April 20, 2006, Howe Center, 3-rd floor, Fieldings room
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8:40 9:00
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Coffee
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9:00 9:40
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Jacek Polewczak, Univ. California-Northridge
Recent results in inert and reacting
kinetic theories of dense fluids
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9:40 10:20
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Joel Rogers, Brooklyn
Poly
Formulation of some free boundary problems
in multicomponent mixtures as conservation laws
with constraint
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10:20 10:40
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Coffee break
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10:40 11:20
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Maxim Zyskin, Univ.
of Bristol, UK
Nematic liquid crystals in polyhedral domains
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11:20 12:00
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Becca Thomases, Courant Institute, NYU
Local energy decay for solutions of
isotropic symmetric hyperbolic systems and applications to nonlinear
elasticity
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12:00 13:00
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Lunch: Howe
Center, 2d floor
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13:00 13:40
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Yi Li, Stevens Tech
Nonlinear dispersive approximation to the
water wave problem
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13:40 14:20
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Yuri Antipov, Louisiana State Univ.
Second-order difference equations with
periodic coefficients in diffraction theory
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14:20 14:40
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Coffee break
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14:40 15:20
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Michael Zabarankin, Stevens Tech
Generalized analytic functions in
hydrodynamics of axially symmetric Stokes flows
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15:20 16:00
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Guillaume Bal, Columbia Univ.
Kinetic and diffusive models for waves in random
media
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16:00 16:15
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Coffee break
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16:15 16:45
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Gabriel Koch, Univ. of Minnesota
Liouville theorem for 2D Navier-Stokes
equations
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16:45 17:15
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Chiu-Ya Lan, National Sun Yet-sen Univ, Taiwan
The Greens function for the Broadwell
model in a half space problem
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17:15 17:45
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Pangyen Weng, Ramapo College, NJ
On the identification of two Sobolev spaces
in Fluid Mechanics
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18:00 20:30
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Dinner: Howe Center, 2d floor
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Program: Friday, April 21, 2006, Howe Center, 3-rd floor, Fieldings room
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8:40 9:00
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Coffee
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9:00 9:40
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Sandra Hayes, Technische Universitat Munchen,
Germany
Chaotic dynamical systems
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9:40 10:20
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Marco Lenci, Stevens Tech
Classical delocalization vs. quantum localization
for non-compact
cusped billiards
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10:20 10:40
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Coffee break
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10:40 11:20
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Li Guo, Rutgers
University, Newark
Algebraic methods in renormalization of
perturbative QFT
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11:20 12:00
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Alexei Rybkin, Univ. of Alaska-Fairbanks
Schrodinger operators with singular
potentials: Lieb-Thirring bounds and preservation of a.c. spectrum
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12:00 13:00
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Lunch: Howe Center, 2d floor
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13:00 13:40
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Michael Kiessling, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick
Microscopic foundations of Vlasov theory
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13:40 14:20
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Pavel Dubovski,
Stevens Tech
A new model in the coagulation kinetics
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14:20 14:50
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Takayuki Yamauchi, Lincoln Univ., PA
On the regularity of a minimizer of an
energy functional over a class of continuous rearrangements
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