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

Constantine Dafermos

Brown University

Stuart Hastings

Stuart Hastings

University of Pittsburgh

David Kinderlehrer

David Kinderlehrer

Carnegie Mellon University

Marshall Slemrod

Marshall Slemrod

University of Wisconsin

Manil Suri

Manil Suri

University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)

William Troy

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)