A Conference in Memory of Jim Greenberg
November 27, 2018
Join us for this special conference honoring the memory of colleague, mentor, and friend
Jim Greenberg
November 27, 2018
Location: Rachel Mellon Walton room in Posner Hall
Conference Poster PDF
The deadline to register is November 6, 2018.
Speakers
Constantine Dafermos
Brown University
Stuart Hastings
University of Pittsburgh
David Kinderlehrer
Carnegie Mellon University
Marshall Slemrod
University of Wisconsin
Manil Suri
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
William Troy
University of Pittsburgh
Organizers
- Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University
- David Kinderlehrer, Carnegie Mellon University
Program
8:30-9:30 – Registration
9:30-9:45 – Welcome Remarks by Tom Bohman
9:45-10:30 – Marshall Slemrod
Title: From Nash-Kuiper to Euler
10:30-11:00 – Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 – Stuart Hastings
Title: Some Unsolved Problems About Spiral Waves in Excitable Media
11:45-12:30 – William Troy
Title: New Singular Standing Wave Solutions of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation
12:30-2:30 – Lunch
2:30-3:15 – David Kinderlehrer
Title: Microstructure Meets Boltzmann
3:15-3:45 – Coffee Break
3:45-4:30 – Constantine Dafermos
Title: Long time behavior of solutions to hyperbolic conservation laws with
periodic initial data
4:30-5:15 – Manil Suri
Title: Approaching Mathematics Through Narrative
5:45 – Reception: Mansions on Fifth Avenue, 5105 Fifth Avenue (Valet parking $5/car)