1995 Texas Partial Differential Equations Seminar
Rice University, Houston.
Saturday April 1, 1995. (In order of presentation).
- Goong Chen: Texas A&M Univ.;
Chaotic vibrations of the infinite dimensional harmonic
oscillator due to a self-excitation boundary condition.
- Barbara Keyfitz: Univ. of Houston;
A free boundary problem arising in conservation
laws that change type.
- Hangfei Zhang: Ball State Univ.;
Non conservative solutions of a fast diffusion equation.
- Walter Strauss: Brown Univ.;
Smoothing of dispersive waves.
- Alfonso Castro: Univ. of North Texas;
Semipositone problems with concave nonlinearities.
- Malgorzata Peszynska: Univ. of Texas at Austin;
A Model of Flow in Partially Fissured Media.
- Rudiger Landes: Univ. of Oklahoma;
Test functions for elliptic systems
- Marianna Shubov: Texas Tech Univ.;
Unique controllability of a reduced wave equation:
spectral analysis of a class of non-selfadjoint operators.
- Jianxin Zhou: Texas A&M Univ.;
Constrained LQR problems in elliptic distributed
boundary control systems with point observations.
- Zhonghai Ding: Texas A&M Univ.;
Modelling and analysis of the thermoelectric heat
transfer problem in shape memory alloy actuators.
- Steve Fulling: Texas A&M Univ.;
On lazy and ambitious semiclassical expansions.
- Davin Potts: Texas A&M Univ.;
Computational implementation of connected-graph and
large-mass expansions of the time evolution propagator.
- Martin Berggren: Rice Univ.;
Control of parabolic evolution equations: asymptotic
behavior of a moving pointwise controller.
- Clifford Nolan: Rice Univ.;
Anomalous reflections in the vicinity of a caustic.
Sunday, April 2, 1995.
- Martin Golubitsky: Univ. of Houston;
Spirals in scalar reaction-diffusion equations.
- Elias Deeba: Univ. Houston Downtown;
The continuous associated Legendre transform.
- Bob Dorroh: Univ.;
A numerical method for an ill-posed problem.
- Gurcan Bicken: Univ. of Texas at Austin;
Numerical simulations of 1-d periodic electron plasma
oscillations and analysis of quadratic wave interactions.
- Alain Sei: Rice Univ.;
Adjointness and consistency of numerical schemes:
they don't always go together.
- Lew Lefton: Univ. of New Orleans;
A priori error estimates for Galerkin approximations
to the porous medium equation.
- Giselle Ruiz Goldstein: Louisiana State Univ.;
The Favard class associated with a degenerate nonlinear parabolic problem.
- Mike Sever: Hebrew Univ.;
A variational formulation of systems of conservation laws.
- Richard Sanders: Univ. ?;
Global existence for multicomponent reaction diffusion systems.
- Changyou Wang: Rice Univ.;
Regularity of high dimensional H-systems.
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