AMS National Meeting, Washington D.C.
January 5-8, 2009

Special Session Title:  Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications

Organizers: Cleopatra Christoforou, University of Houston
                     Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University

                   

Date: Monday, January 5, 2009.
Schedule: TBA in October

Speakers:

  1. Myoungjean Bae, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
           Title: Transonic shocks of multi-dimensional compressible flow through divergent nozzles with arbitrary cross-sections. 
  2. Jun Chen, University of Houston,
           Title: Transonic flows past wedges governed by full Euler equations.
  3. Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
           Title: Shock reflection, free boundary problems, and degenerate elliptic equations.
  4. James Glimm, State University of New York at Stony Brook,
           Title: Compensated Compactness and the Multi-Dimensional Euler Equations. 
  5. Barbara Keyfitz, Fields Institute,
           Title: Self-Similar Multidimensional Conservation Laws: An Excursion into Linear Equations. 
  6. David Levermore, University of Maryland,
           Title: TBA
  7. Tao Luo, Georgetown University,
           Title: Stability of Newtonian Rotating White Dwarf Stars.
  8. Mikhail Perepelitsa, Vanderbilt University,
           Title: Instantaneous boundary tangency and cusp formation in two-dimensional fluid flows.
  9. Michael Sever, The Hebrew University,
           Title: Large-data solution of the Cauchy problem for a model system for singular shocks.
  10. Monica Torres, Purdue University,
           Title: On the structure of solutions of multidimensional systems of conservation laws.
  11. Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland,
           Title: TBA
  12. Michael Westdickenberg, Georgia Technology University,
           Title: Optimal Transport for the System of Isentropic Euler Equations.
  13. Robin Young, University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
           Title: TBA
  14. Yuxi Zheng, Penn State University.
           Title:  Mixed type problems and semi-hyperbolic waves in two-dimensional compressible Euler systems. 

Contact Information.
E-mail address: cleopatra (followed @math.uh.edu)
    World-Wide Web: www.math.uh.edu/~cleopatra
Mail Address: Department of Mathematics
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204

Office: PGH 627
    Office phone:  (713) 743-3457
    Fax:  (713) 743-3505