2007 Texas Partial Differential Equations Seminar
University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas

Saturday March 24, 2007. (In order of presentation)
• Zhaosheng Feng, Univ. of Texas-Pan American, Approximate Study for A Reaction-Diffusion Equation.
• Paul Bracken, Univ. of Texas-Pan American, The Generalized Weierstrass System in $R^3$ and Application s to the study of Deformations of Surfaces by Means of Integrable Hierarchies.
• Peter Howard , Texas A \& M Univ. Asymptotic behavior near planar transition fronts for the Cahn-Hilliard equation.
• Baofeng Feng, Univ. of Texas-Pan American, An operator spitting scheme for the peakon and shock-peakon solutions of Degasperis-Procesi equation.
• Liping Liu, Univ. of Texas-Pan American, Phase transitions in a coupled viscoelastic system with periodic initial-boundary condition: (II) convergence.
• Yuri Yatsenko, Houston Baptist Univ., Optimal control of age- and size-structured dynamic population models (joint work with Natali Hritonenko and Renan-Ulrich Goetz).
• Zhijun Qiao, Univ. of Texas-Pan American, The Degasperis-Procesi Hierarchy and Its Solutions - Part I - Constrained Systems and Parametric Solutions (joint work with Guoping Zhang).
• Guoping Zhang, Univ. of Texas-Pan American, The Degasperis-Procesi Hierarchy and Its Solutions Part II: Cusped and Smooth Traveling Wave Solutions (joint work with Zhijun Qiao).
• Charles Obare, Univ. of Texas-Pan American, Volterra Integral Equations and Applications.
• Vladimir Varlamov, Univ. Texas-Pan American, Korteweg-de Vries-type equations and their fractional properties.

Sunday March 25, 2007:
• Steven D. London, Univ. of Houston-Downtown, Linear and Weakly Nonlinear Hydromagnetic Waves in the Earth's Outer Core.
• Andras Balogh, Univ. of Texas - Pan American, Output-Feedback Stabilization of an Unstable Wave Equation.
• Youn-Sha Chan, Univ. of Houston-Downtown, Dependence of Crack-tip Singularity on Loading Functions.
• Greg Wene, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, On the structure of finite semifields.
• Anahit Galstyan, Univ. of Texas-Pan American, Global existence for the one-dimensional semilinear Gellerstedt type equation.
• Karen Yagdjian, Univ. of Texas-Pan American, Nonlinear hyperbolic equations with time-dependent speed of propagation.
• Tuncay Aktosun, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Exact solutions to the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation.
• Kenichi Maruno, Univ. of Texas - Pan American, Coupled KP equation and Weyl group actions.
• Fengxin Chen, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, Traveling Waves for System of Nonlocal Evolution Equations with Bistable Nonlinearity.
• Runchang Lin, Texas A & M International Univ., A Discontinuous Least-Squares Finite Element Method for Singularly Perturbed Reaction-Diffusion Problems.
• Mehmet Akinlar, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Explicit Solutions to the Sine-Gordon Equation.