Shanks Workshop

Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications

Vanderbilt University

March 17-18, 2007

Organizer: Gieri Simonett

All talks on Saturday will be in SC 1310

All talks on Sunday will be in SC 1431

Saturday, March 17:

10:00-10:50 am Herbert Amann: Parabolic equations on manifolds with singularities

11:00-11:50 am Jan Prüss: Stefan problems with surface tension

2:00-2:50 pm Glenn Webb: Epidemic models structured by disease age

3:00-3:50 pm Patrick Guidotti: A class of free boundary problems with onset of a phase

4:10-5:00 pm Mikhail Perepelitsa: The Navier-Stokes equations for the motion of compressible, viscous fluid flows with the no-slip boundary condition

Sunday, March 18:

10:00-10:50 am Emmanuele DiBenedetto: Local clustering of the non-zero set of functions in W^{1,1}_{loc}

11:00-11:50 am Vincenzo Vespri: Harnack estimates for quasilinear parabolic equations I

2:00-2:50 pm Ugo Gianazza: Harnack estimates for quasilinear parabolic equations II

3:00-3:50 pm Joachim Escher: Singularities of solutions to shallow water models

4:10-5:00 pm Dieter Bothe: Modeling and analysis of two-fluid systems - from interface to interphase

For more information click on abstracts