Conference on Nonlinearity, Transport, Physics, and Patterns

October 6 - 10, 2014, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute

Schedule

Monday, October 6th, 2014
09:30 to 10:00	Coffee and Registration
10:10 to 11:10	No Title Specified Gero Friesecke, Technical University of Munich Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:10 to 12:10	Kac particles interacting with a thermal reservoir Michael Loss, Georgia Tech Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:10 to 13:10	Lunch break
12:10 to 14:00	Lunch break
14:10 to 15:00	No Title Specified Jianfeng Lu, Duke University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
15:00 to 15:30	Tea break
15:30 to 16:10	Reduced models for domain walls in soft ferromagnetic films Lukas Doering Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
16:10 to 17:00	Low density phases in a uniformly charged liquid with homogeneous neutralizing background Cyrill Muratov, NJIT Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
17:00	Reception

Tuesday, October 7th, 2014
09:10 to 10:00	Topological solitons in chiral magnetism Christof Melcher, RWTH Aachen University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:00 to 10:10	Coffee break
10:10	Pattern formation in micromagnetics Radu Ignat Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
13:30 to 14:10	Free upper boundary value problems for the semi-geostrophic equations Michael Cullen Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
14:10 to 15:00	Singularity formation in the mean curvature flow I.M. Sigal Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
15:00 to 15:30	Tea break
15:30 to 16:00	The emergence of torsion in the continuum limit of distributed dislocations Cy Maor, Hebrew University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
16:00 to 16:30	Gradient flows in the framework of Cartesian Currents Malte Kampschulte, RWTH Aachen University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
16:30	On the Almost Axisymmetric Flows Marc Sedjro, RWTH-Aachen University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
09:10 to 10:00	No Title Specified Etienne Sandier, upec Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:00 to 10:10	Coffee break
10:10	Indirect Coulomb Energy with Gradient Correction Elliott Lieb Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Thursday, October 9th, 2014
10:10 to 11:10	Discrete entropy methods for nonlinear diffusive evolution equations Ansgar Jüngel Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:10	Self-Assembly: Variational models, Energy Landscapes, and Metastability Rustum Choksi, McGill University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
12:20 to 14:00	Lunch break
14:10 to 15:00	KAM theory and the 3D Euler equation Boris Khesin, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
15:00 to 15:30	Tea break
15:30 to 16:00	N-vortex and N-body dynamics on closed surfaces : a common point of view Stefanella Boatto, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
16:00	Connecting Particle Systems to entropy-driven gradient flows Michiel Renger Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Friday, October 10th, 2014
09:10 to 10:10	Height fluctuations in interacting dimers Alessandro Giuliani Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:10 to 11:00	No Title Specified Lia Bronsard, McMaster University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee break
11:30	Derivation of nonlinear Gibbs measures from many-body quantum mechanics Mathieu Lewin Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Organizing Committee

Luigi Ambrosio - Scuola Normale Superiore

Bob Jerrard - University of Toronto

Felix Otto - Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Natural Sciences at Leipzig

Mary Pugh - University of Toronto

Robert Seiringer - IST Austria

Minischool on Variational Problems in Physics

Scheduled as part of

Thematic Program on Variational Problems in Physics, Economics and Geometry

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