Workshop in Mathematical Physics

April 20-21, 2006

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.

Organizers:

 

Pavel Dubovski  and  Michael Zabarankin
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology

Date:

 

April 20-21, 2006

Place:

 

Fielding Conference Room, 3d floor, Howe Center, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, 07030 (across from Manhattan)

The campus map and driving directions

Website:

 

http://personal.stevens.edu/~pdubovsk/mathphysics.html

E-mail:

 

pdubovsk@stevens.edu

Program:

 

Thursday, April 20     Friday, April 21         Abstracts

 


 

 

Program: Thursday, April 20, 2006, Howe Center, 3-rd floor, Fieldings room

8:40 – 9:00

Coffee

9:00 – 9:40

Jacek Polewczak, Univ. California-Northridge
Recent results in inert and reacting kinetic theories of dense fluids

9:40 – 10:20

Joel Rogers, Brooklyn Poly
Formulation of some free boundary problems in multicomponent mixtures as conservation laws with constraint

10:20 – 10:40

Coffee break

10:40 – 11:20

Maxim Zyskin, Univ. of Bristol, UK
Nematic liquid crystals in polyhedral domains

11:20 – 12:00

Becca Thomases, Courant Institute, NYU
Local energy decay for solutions of isotropic symmetric hyperbolic systems and applications to nonlinear elasticity

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch: Howe Center, 2d floor

13:00 – 13:40

Yi Li, Stevens Tech
Nonlinear dispersive approximation to the water wave problem

13:40 – 14:20

Yuri Antipov, Louisiana State Univ.
Second-order difference equations with periodic coefficients in diffraction theory

14:20 – 14:40

Coffee break

14:40 – 15:20

Michael Zabarankin, Stevens Tech
Generalized analytic functions in hydrodynamics of axially symmetric Stokes flows

15:20 – 16:00

Guillaume Bal, Columbia Univ.
Kinetic and diffusive models for waves in random media

16:00 – 16:15

Coffee break

16:15 – 16:45

Gabriel Koch, Univ. of Minnesota
Liouville theorem for 2D Navier-Stokes equations

16:45 – 17:15

Chiu-Ya Lan, National Sun Yet-sen Univ, Taiwan
The Green’s function for the Broadwell model in a half space problem

17:15 – 17:45

Pangyen Weng, Ramapo College, NJ
On the identification of two Sobolev spaces in Fluid Mechanics

18:00 – 20:30

Dinner: Howe Center, 2d floor


 

Program: Friday, April 21, 2006, Howe Center, 3-rd floor, Fieldings room

8:40 – 9:00

Coffee

9:00 – 9:40

Sandra Hayes, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany
Chaotic dynamical systems

9:40 – 10:20

Marco Lenci, Stevens Tech
Classical delocalization vs. quantum localization for non-compact
cusped billiards

10:20 – 10:40

Coffee break

10:40 – 11:20

Li Guo, Rutgers University, Newark
Algebraic methods in renormalization of perturbative QFT

11:20 – 12:00

Alexei Rybkin, Univ. of Alaska-Fairbanks
Schrodinger operators with singular potentials: Lieb-Thirring bounds and preservation of a.c. spectrum

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch: Howe Center, 2d floor

13:00 – 13:40

Michael Kiessling, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick
Microscopic foundations of Vlasov theory

13:40 – 14:20

Pavel Dubovski, Stevens Tech
A new model in the coagulation kinetics

14:20 – 14:50

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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