## Seminars and Colloquia by Series

Series: PDE Seminar
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 006 , Professor Gieri Simonett , Vanderbilt University , , Organizer: Xukai Yan
Series: PDE Seminar
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 09:48 , Location: Skiles 006 , , University of South Carolina , , Organizer: Xukai Yan
Series: PDE Seminar
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 006 , Professor Shouhong Wang , Indiana University , , Organizer: Xukai Yan
Series: PDE Seminar
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 006 , Professor Hongjie Dong , Brown University , , Organizer: Xukai Yan
Series: PDE Seminar
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 006 , Matias Delgadino , Imperial College , Organizer: Xukai Yan
In this talk we will introduce two models for the movement of a small droplet over a substrate: the thin film equation and the quasi static approximation. By tracking the motion of the apparent support of solutions to the thin film equation, we connect these two models. This connection was expected from Tanner's law: the edge velocity of a spreading thin film on a pre-wetted solid is approximately proportional to the cube of the slope at the inflection. This is joint work with Prof. Antoine Mellet.
Series: PDE Seminar
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 15:00 , Location: skiles 006 , Yilun(Allen) Wu , The University of Oklahoma , , Organizer: Xukai Yan
A rotating star may be modeled as gas under self gravity with a given total mass and prescribed angular velocity. Mathematically this leads to the Euler-Poisson system. In this talk, we present an existence theorem for such stars that are rapidly rotating, depending continuously on the speed of rotation. No previous results using continuation methods allowed rapid rotation. The key tool for the result is global continuation theory via topological degree, combined with a delicate limiting process. The solutions form a connected set $\mathcal K$ in an appropriate function space. Take an equation of state of the form $p = \rho^\gamma$; $6/5 < \gamma < 2$, $\gamma\ne 4/3$. As the speed of rotation increases, we prove that either the density somewhere within the stars becomes unbounded, or the supports of the stars in $\mathcal K$ become unbounded. Moreover, the latter alternative must occur if $\frac43<\gamma<2$. This result is joint work with Walter Strauss.
Series: PDE Seminar
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 005 , Prof. Shigeaki Koike , Tohoku University, Japan , Organizer: Ronghua Pan
We discuss bilateral obstacle problems for fully nonlinear second order uniformly elliptic partial differential equations (PDE for short) with merely continuous obstacles. Obstacle problems arise not only in minimization of energy functionals under restriction by obstacles but also stopping time problems in stochastic optimal control theory. When the main PDE part is of divergence type, huge amount of works have been done. However, less is known when it is of non-divergence type. Recently, Duque showed that the Holder continuity of viscosity solutions of bilateral obstacle problems, whose PDE part is of non-divergence type, and obstacles are supposed to be Holder continuous. Our purpose is to extend his result to enable us to apply a much wider class of PDE. This is a joint work with Shota Tateyama (Tohoku University).
Series: PDE Seminar
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 006 , Hao Jia , University of Minnesota , , Organizer: Xukai Yan
The two dimensional Euler equation is globally wellposed, but the long time behavior of solutions is not well understood. Generically, it is conjectured that the vorticity, due to mixing, should weakly but not strongly converge as $t\to\infty$. In an important work, Bedrossian and Masmoudi studied the perturbative regime near Couette flow $(y,0)$ on an infinite cylinder, and proved small perturbation in the Gevrey space relaxes to a nearby shear flow. In this talk, we will explain a recent extension to the case of a finite cylinder (i.e. a periodic channel) with perturbations in a critical Gevrey space for this problem. The main interest of this extension is to consider the natural boundary effects, and to ensure that the Couette flow in our domain has finite energy. Joint work with Alex Ionescu.
Series: PDE Seminar
Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 006 , , Rutgers University , , Organizer: Ronghua Pan
We give derivative estimates for solutions to divergence form elliptic equations with piecewise smooth coefficients. The novelty of these estimates is that, even though they depend on the shape and on the size of the surfaces of discontinuity of the coefficients, they are independent of the distance between these surfaces.
Series: PDE Seminar
Thursday, October 11, 2018 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 005 , , African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Tanzania , Organizer: Yao Yao
In this talk, we introduce several models of the so-called forward-forward Mean-Field Games (MFGs). The&nbsp; forward-forward models arise in the study of&nbsp; numerical schemes to approximate stationary MFGs. We establish a link between these models and a class of hyperbolic conservation laws. Furthermore, we investigate the existence of solutions and examine long-time limit properties. Joint work with Diogo Gomes and Levon Nurbekyan.