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](https://events.mcs.cmu.edu/greenberg/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/10/dafermos.jpg)
Constantine Dafermos
Brown University
![Stuart Hastings](https://events.mcs.cmu.edu/greenberg/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/09/hastings.jpg)
Stuart Hastings
University of Pittsburgh
![David Kinderlehrer](https://events.mcs.cmu.edu/greenberg/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/09/speaker_kinderlehrer.jpg)
David Kinderlehrer
Carnegie Mellon University
![Marshall Slemrod](https://events.mcs.cmu.edu/greenberg/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/09/speakers_slemrod.jpg)
Marshall Slemrod
University of Wisconsin
![Manil Suri](https://events.mcs.cmu.edu/greenberg/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/09/speaker_suri.jpg)
Manil Suri
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
![William Troy](https://events.mcs.cmu.edu/greenberg/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/09/troy-w.jpg)
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)