Meetings take place Wednesdays, 2:10pm - 3:30 pm in The Fields Institute Boardroom (Room 210)
Summer Meetings: Wednesdays, 10:30am - 12:00 pm in The Fields Institute Boardroom (Room 210)

Organizers: Jim Colliander, University of Toronto, Robert Jerrard, University of Toronto, Robert McCann, University of Toronto

The Fields Working Group on Nonlinear Evolution Equations is an informal group of students and researchers in analysis, applied mathematics, and partial differential equations, who convene once a week to discuss mathematical research of common interest. It functions partly as a journal club and partly as a venue for presenting work in progress, especially by young researchers. The 2002-03 research theme centers around nonlinear heat flows and models for fluid mechanics. Participants are welcome, as are suggestions for presentations. Background readings for upcoming seminars can be found at http://www.math.toronto.edu/hmaroofi/seminar/seminar.html

Upcoming Seminars

June 25, 2003. Jim Colliander, University of Toronto. Normal forms, almost conservation and low regularity global well-posedness for periodic NLS

Schedule

June 18, 2003. Robert Jerrard, University of Toronto. Hessian Measures

June 11, 2003. Jim Colliander, University of Toronto. Nekoroshev Stability

April 2, 2003. Israel Michael Sigal, University of Toronto. Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and renormalization group (a thumbnail sketch).

March 12, 2003. Robert Jerrard, University of Toronto. Long time asymptotics for Ginzburg-Landau heat flow.

March 5, 2003. Robert Jerrard, University of Toronto. Dynamics of Ginzburg-Landau vortices II

February 26, 2003. Robert Jerrard, University of Toronto. Dynamics of Ginzburg-Landau vortices: general background.

February 12, 2003. Jim Colliander, University of Toronto. Variations of a theme by Morawetz II

February 5, 2003. Jim Colliander, University of Toronto. Variations of a theme by Morawetz

January 29, 2003. Fridolin Ting, University of Toronto. Asymptotic behavior (near finite extinction time) for the fast diffusion equation with exponent m=(N-2)/(N+2), N >2

January 22, 2003. Adrian Butscher, University of Toronto. A Classical Result in the Mean Cuvature Flow of Hypersurfaces III

January 15, 2003. Adrian Butscher, University of Toronto. A Classical Result in the Mean Cuvature Flow of Hypersurfaces II

January 8, 2003. Adrian Butscher, University of Toronto. A Classical Result in the Mean Cuvature Flow of Hypersurfaces

December 3, 2002. Jim Colliander, University of Toronto. Well-posedness for quasilinear (uniformly) parabolic PDE II

November 27, 2002. Jim Colliander, University of Toronto. Well-posedness for quasilinear (uniformly) parabolic PDE

November 20, 2002. Mary Pugh, University of Toronto. Droplet Spreading; Intermediate Scaling Law by PDE Methods

November 13, 2002. Hamed Maroofi, University of Toronto. Sharp Constants in Sobolev inequalities; a Mass Transportation Approach

November 6, 2002. Robert McCann, University of Toronto. Nonlinear Heat Flows IV: Steepest Descent into a Convex Valley

October 30, 2002. Robert McCann, University of Toronto. Nonlinear Heat Flows III: Steepest Descent into a Convex Valley

October 23, 2002. Dejan Slepcev, University of Toronto. Asymptotics: From porous medium equations to a thin film equation

October 16, 2002. Steve Shkoller, University of California at Davis. The Navier-Stokes equations with a free-surface and surface tension

October 9, 2002. Robert McCann, University of Toronto. Nonlinear heat flows: Steepest descent into a convex valley