The 61st Fall 2008 Midwest Partial Differential Equations Seminar at The Ohio State University
(November 7-9, 2008)

The Seminar Webpage at MBI: http://www.mbi.ohio-state.edu/2008/pdedescription.html [1]

Invited Speakers

• Jerry Bona
• Suncica Canic
• Xinfu Chen
• Walter Craig
• Avner Friedman
• Fanghua Lin
• Peter Miller
• Wei-Ming Ni
• Daniel Phillips
• Vladimir Sverak

Walter Craig: Bounds on Kolmogorov spectra for the Navier - Stokes equations [2] 6:15-7:30pm Reception Saturday, November 8 9:00-10:00am Wei-Ming Ni: On dynamics of shadow systems [3] 10:30-11:30am Xinfu Chen 11:30-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-2:00pm Suncica Canic 2:30-3:30pm Avner Friedman: Multiscale tumor models [4] 4:00-5:00pm Fanghua Lin: Nonlocal heat flows and an optimal partition of Dirichelet eigenvalues [5] 6:00-9:00pm Drinks and Dinner at Holiday Inn on the Lane Sunday, November 9 9:00-10:00am Vladimir Sverak: On the local structure of the manifold of the steady-state solutions of 2d Euler's equations [6] 10:30-11:30am Daniel Phillips 12:00-1:00pm Peter Miller: What do water waves have to do with algebraic geometry? [7]

Maps and Directions

Address: All talks will be at MBI:

Mathematical Biosciences Institute
The Ohio State University
1735 Neil Avenue
Jennings Hall, 3rd Floor
Columbus, OH 43210

Directions to the Holiday Inn on the Lane [8]

Directions to the MBI from the Holiday Inn [9]

Support

We have limited funds to help support the participation of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and tenure track faculty. We particularly encourage people who belong to currently underrepresented groups (minorities and women) to apply. If you are interested in participating and/or require financial support please contact Rebecca Martin at rebecca@mbi.osu.edu [10].

Accommodations

A block of rooms have been reserved at the Holiday Inn on the Lane and participants should make their own reservations: http://www.innonthelane.com [11]/. Rooms are reserved under "MBI/Midwest PDE" - please request this block of rooms for a discounted rate or enter in the booking code "MBN."

Local Organizers

Avner Friedman (Chair), Chiu-Yen Kao, Bo Guan, Yuan Lou, Fei-Ran Tian

 

Sponsors

National Science Foundation, The Mathematical Research Institute of OSU