Seminars and Colloquia by Series

Compactness and singularity related to harmonic maps

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Friday, July 26, 2019 - 13:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Jiayu LiUniversity of Science and Technology of China

In this talk we will review compactness results and singularity theorems related to harmonic maps. We first talk about maps from Riemann surfaces with tension fields bounded in a local Hardy space, then talk about stationary harmonic maps from higher dimensional manifolds, finally talk about heat flow of harmonic maps.

Weak Solutions of Mean Field Game Master Equations

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
skiles 006
Speaker
Chenchen MouUCLA

 In this talk we study master equations arising from mean field game 
problems, under the crucial monotonicity conditions.
Classical solutions of such equations require very strong technical 
conditions. Moreover, unlike the master equations arising from mean 
field control problems, the mean field game master equations are 
non-local and even classical solutions typically do not satisfy the 
comparison principle, so the standard viscosity solution approach seems 
infeasible. We shall propose a notion of weak solution for such 
equations and establish its wellposedness. Our approach relies on a new 
smooth mollifier for functions of measures, which unfortunately does not 
keep the monotonicity property, and the stability result of master 
equations. The talk is based on a joint work with Jianfeng Zhang.

Analysis on Keller-Segel Models in Chemotaxis.

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Li ChenUniversity of Mannheim

I this talk I will summerize some of our contributions in the analysis of parabolic elliptic Keller-Segel system, a typical model in chemotaxis. For the case of linear diffusion, after introducing the critical mass in two dimension, I will show our result for blow-up conditions for higher dimension. The second part of the talk is concentrated in the critical exponent for Keller-Segel system with porus media type diffusion. In the end, motivated from the result on nonlocal Fisher-KPP equation, we show that the nonlocal reaction will also help in preventing the blow-up of the solutions.  

On the motion of a rigid body with a cavity filled with a viscous liquid

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Professor Gieri SimonettVanderbilt University
I will consider the motion of a rigid body with an interior cavity that is completely filled with a viscous fluid. The equilibria of the system will be characterized and their stability properties are analyzed. It will be shown that the fluid exerts a stabilizing effect, driving the system towards a state where it is moving as a rigid body with constant angular velocity. In addition, I will characterize the critical spaces for the governing evolution equation, and I will show how parabolic regularization in time-weighted spaces affords great flexibility in establishing regularity and stability properties for the system. The approach is based on the theory of Lp-Lq maximal regularity. (Joint work with G. Mazzone and J. Prüss).

Validity of Steady Prandtl Expansio

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
skiles 006
Speaker
Professor Yan GuoBrown University

In a joint work with Sameer Iyer, the validity of steady Prandtl layer expansion is established in a channel. Our result covers the celebrated Blasius boundary layer profile, which is based on uniform quotient estimates for the derivative Navier-Stokes equations, as well as a positivity estimate at the flow entrance.

Eulerian dynamics with alignment interactions

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Changhui TanUniversity of South Carolina
The Euler-Alignment system arises as a macroscopic representation of the Cucker-Smale model, which describes the flocking phenomenon in animal swarms. The nonlinear and nonlocal nature of the system bring challenges in studying global regularity and long time behaviors. In this talk, I will discuss the global wellposedness of the Euler-Alignment system with three types of nonlocal alignment interactions: bounded, strongly singular, and weakly singular interactions. Different choices of interactions will lead to different global behaviors. I will also discuss interesting connections to some fluid dynamics systems, including the fractional Burgers equation, and the aggregation equation.

Field Theoretical Interpretation of QM Wave Functions and Quantum Mechanism of High Tc Superconductivity

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Professor Shouhong WangIndiana University

First, we introduce a new field theoretical interpretation of quantum mechanical wave functions, by postulating that the wave function is the common wave function for all particles in the same class determined by the external potential V, of the modulus of the wave function represents the distribution density of the particles, and the gradient of phase of the wave function provides the velocity field of the particles. Second, we show that the key for condensation of bosonic particles is that their interaction is sufficiently weak to ensure that a large collection of boson particles are in a state governed by the same condensation wave function field under the same bounding potential V. For superconductivity, the formation of superconductivity comes down to conditions for the formation of electron-pairs, and for the electron-pairs to share a common wave function. Thanks to the recently developed PID interaction potential of electrons and the average-energy level formula of temperature, these conditions for superconductivity are explicitly derived. Furthermore, we obtain both microscopic and macroscopic formulas for the critical temperature. Third, we derive the field and topological phase transition equations for condensates, and make connections to the quantum phase transition, as a topological phase transition. This is joint work with Tian Ma.

Boundary regularity for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Professor Hongjie DongBrown University
I will first give a short introduction of the Navier-Stokes equations, then review some previous results on theconditional regularity of solutions to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the critical Lebesguespaces, and finally discuss some recent work which mainly addressed the boundary regularity issue.

Global solutions of incompressible viscoelastic fluids with large velocity on low frequency part

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
skiles 006
Speaker
Ting ZhangZhejiang University

Abstract: In this talk, we consider the Cauchy problem of the N-dimensional incompressible viscoelastic fluids with N ≥ 2. It is shown that, in the low frequency part, this system possesses some dispersive properties derived from the one parameter group e∓itΛ. Based on this dispersive effect, we construct global solutions with large initial velocity concentrating on the low frequency part. Such kind of solution has never been seen before in the literature even for the classical incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The proof relies heavily on the dispersive estimates for the system of acoustics, and a careful study of the nonlinear terms. And we also obtain the similar result for the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Here, the initial velocity with arbitrary B⋅N 2 −1 2,1 norm of potential part P⊥u0 and large highly oscillating are allowed in our results. (Joint works with Daoyuan Fang and Ruizhao Zi)

On the relationship between the thin film equation and Tanner's law

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Matias DelgadinoImperial College
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.

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