2002 Texas Partial Differential Equations Seminar
University of Texas at San Antonio

Saturday February 2, 2002. (In order of presentation)
• Goong Chen, Texas A&M Univ., Remarks on the elliptic sine-Gordon equation and its visualization.
• Ralph E. Showalter, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Partially saturated flow in a poroelastic medium.
• Weiming Cao, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, A preconditioning algorithm for the p-version boundary element method in three dimensions.
• Darrin Visarraga, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Absorption delay models of heat transport.
• Lokenath Debnath, Univ. of Texas Pan-American, Propagation of solitary waves in a beta plane ocean.
• Fengxin Chen, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, Traveling waves for a neural network.
• Dung Le, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, Global attractors for cross diffusion systems on any dimensional domains.
• Steven London, Univ. of Houston-Downtown, Resistive instability in the Earth's outer core.
• Giles Auchmuty, Univ. of Houston, L^2 well-posedness of div-curl boundary value problems.
• Yu Huang, Texas A&M Univ., Growth of total variations of snapshots of the wave equation with composite nonlinear boundary reflection relation.
• Ruediger Landes, Univ. of Oklahoma, Some remarks on symmetrizations.
• Tuncay Adtosun, Mississippi State Univ., A numerical solution of the Korteweg de Vries equation.
• Ratnasingham Shivaji, Mississippi State Univ., Existence and uniqueness for a class of quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems.
• Bruce Lowe, Texas A&M Univ., On the relationship between the term structure of futures prices and the spot price in a multi-factor fuel model.
• Alfonso Castro , Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, Infinitely many solution for a superlinear Neumann problem in tilable regions.
• Cynthia Martin, Texas Tech Univ., Asymptotic and spectral results for nonselfadjoint operators generated by coupled Euler-Bernoulli and Timoshenko beam model.
• Xudong Yao, Texas A&M Univ., A minimax method for computing multiple critical points in Banach spaces.
• Marianna Shubov, Texas Tech Univ., Asymptotic and spectral analysis of aircraft wing model in subsonic airflow.
• Jianxin Zhou, Texas A&M Univ., Invariant properties in computing multiple critical points.
• Victor Shubov, Texas Tech Univ., Regular linear systems governed by parabolic equations: Output regulation with infinite dimensional exosystem.
• Maria Cristina Mariani, Univ. de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Solutions to a non-isentropic hydrodynamic model for semiconductors with regular pressure.
• Barbara Keyfitz, Univ. of Houston, Mixed hyperbolic-elliptic systems in self-similar flows.
• Maria Pia Varela, Univ. de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Variational analysis of the energy functional in a gauge transformation.
• Michael Sever, The Hebrew Univ., Singular shocks.
• Zhaosheng Feng, Texas A&M Univ., Exact solutions to the approximately damped sine-Gordon equation in (n+1)-dimensional space.