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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, Variational
Principles
Riemann Boundary-Value Problems and Singular
Integral Equations
Applications in Hydrodynamics, Theory of
Elasticity, Fiber Optics,
Magnetohydrodynamics
(MHD), Contact Problems in Mechanics
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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
| 9:00
9:40 |
Jacek
Polewczak, Univ.
California-Northridge
Recent results in
inert and reacting kinetic theories of dense fluids
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| 9:40
10:20 |
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 |
Coffee break
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| 10:40
11:20 |
Maxim Zyskin, Univ. of Bristol, UK
Nematic liquid crystals in
polyhedral domains
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| 11:20
12:00 |
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 |
Lunch
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| 13:00
13:40 |
Yi Li,
Stevens Tech
Nonlinear
dispersive approximation to the water wave problem
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| 13:40
14:20 |
Yuri Antipov, Baton Rouge
Second-order
difference equations with periodic coefficients in diffraction theory
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| 14:20
14:40 |
Coffee
break
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| 14:40
15:20 |
Michael Zabarankin, Stevens Tech
Generalized
analytic functions in hydrodynamics of axially symmetric Stokes flows
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| 15:20
16:00 |
Guillaume Bal, Columbia Univ.
Kinetic and
diffusive models for waves in random media
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| 16:00
16:15 |
Coffee
break
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| 16:15
16:45 |
Gabriel Koch, Univ. of Minnesota
Liouville theorem
for 2D Navier-Stokes equations
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| 16:45
17:15 |
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 |
Pangyen Weng, Ramapo College, NJ
On the
identification of two Sobolev spaces in Fluid Mechanics
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| 18:00
20:30 |
Dinner |
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Program: Friday,
April 21, 2006, Howe Center,
3-rd floor, Fieldings room
| 9:00
9:40 |
Sandra Hayes, Technische Universitat
Munchen, Germany
Chaotic dynamical
systems
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| 9:40 10:20 |
Marco Lenci, Stevens Tech
Classical
delocalization vs. quantum localization for non-compact
cusped billiards
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| 10:20 10:40 |
Coffee
break
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| 10:40 11:20 |
Li Guo, Rutgers
University, Newark
Algebraic methods
in renormalization of perturbative QFT
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| 11:20 12:00 |
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 |
Lunch
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| 13:00 13:40 |
Michael Kiessling, Rutgers Univ.,
New Brunswick
Microscopic
foundations of Vlasov theory
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| 13:40 14:10 |
Pavel Dubovski, Stevens Tech
A new model in the
coagulation kinetics |
14:10 14:40
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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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