Commutator Stories

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Prof. Peter Constantin – Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago – const@math.uchicago.eduhttp://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~const/
Organizer
Ronghua Pan
I'll talk about a couple of commutator estimates and their role in the proofs of existence and uniqueness of solutions of active scalar equations with singular integral constitutive relations like the generalized SQG and Oldroyd B models.