Conference on
Partial Differential Equations and Applications
August 14-17, 2003

I. Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Applications.
Organized by Alex Himonas and Gerard Misiolek.

Main Speakers:

1. R. Beals, Yale University
   Title: Camassa-Holm and Calogero-Francoise Equations: From Infinite to Finite Dimensionality
2. B. Birnir, University of California, Santa Barbara
   Title: Two-scale compensated compactness
3. J. Bona, University of Illinois, Chicago
   Title: Long wave models for water waves
4. Y. Brenier, Universite de Paris VI, France
   Title: From electromagnetism to hydrodynamics through the Born-Infeld equations
5. P. Constantin, University of Chicago
   Title: TBA
6. W. Craig, McMaster University, Canada
   Title: On surface water waves
7. R. Danchin, Universite de Paris VI, France
   Title: Well-posedness and ill-posedness results for a shallow water equation
8. D. Ebin, SUNY Stony Brook
   Title: The sound of fluid flowing
9. R. Glassey, Indiana University
   Title: TBA
10. M. Keel, University of Minnesota
    Title: TBA
11. H. Lindblad, University of California, San Diego
    Title: TBA
12. D. Sattinger, Utah State University
    Title: Resonant interactions of solitary waves in the Euler-Poisson equations
13. M. Sigal, University of Notre Dame/University of Toronto
    Title: Some mathematical questions of the theory of Bose-Einstein condensation
14. W. Strauss, Brown University
    Title: Periodic water waves with vorticity
15. S. Venakides, Duke University
    Title: The semiclassical focusing nonlinear Schroedinger
16. M. Vishik, University of Texas, Austin
    Title: Stability spectrum for an ideal incompressible fluid

Short Talks:

1. P. Byers, University of Notre Dame
   Title: Spiked traveling waves and ill-posedness for the Camassa-Holm equation on the circle
2. O. Calin, Eastern Michigan University
   Title: Real and complex Hamiltonian mechanics on a step 2k subriemannian manifold
3. H. Chen, University of Memphis
   Title: Well-posedness of the initial-boundary-value problem for BBM-equation and its limiting case
4. S. Dejak, University of Toronto
   Title: Long Time Soliton Dynamics of the KdV Equation in an External Potential
5. D. Geba, University of California, Berkeley
   Title: Dispersive estimates for variable coefficient second order hyperbolic operators
6. J. Gorsky, University of Notre Dame
   Title: Well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for a KdV-type equation on the circle
7. L. Jonsson, University of Toronto
   Title:  On dynamics of a NLS-soliton in an external potential
8. B. Kohler, University of Utah
   Title: Modeling the molecular basis of muscle contraction
9. S. Maad, University of Toronto
   Title: Semilinear elliptic equations on unbounded domains
10. S. Preston, University of Pennsylvania
    Title: A criterion for Lagrangian instability of an incompressible fluid
11. N. Tarfulea, University of Minnesota
    Title: Boundary conditions for a new first order symmetric hyperbolic formulation of Einstein's equations
12. F. Tiglay, University of Notre Dame
    Title: Analytic regularity of a family of evolution equations
13. F. Ting, University of Toronto
    Title: A briefer on existence and stability of pinned magnetic vortices
14. K. Yagdjian, University of Cincinnati
    Title: Parametric resonance as a blow up mechanism for nonlinear wave equation

Other Registered Participants:

1. M. Chen, Purdue University
2. S. Dejak, University of Toronto
3. A. Galstyan, University of Cincinnati
4. V. Hur, Brown University
5. P. Karageorgis, Brown University