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Thematic Program on Partial Differential EquationsFields Institute Seminar 
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               2004 
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| Jan 7 | Victor Ivrii, University of Toronto Sharp Spectral Asymptotics for Operators with Irregular Coefficients  | 
          
| Jan 14 | Robert Brandenberger, Brown University  Floquet Theory, Early Universe Cosmology and Anderson Localization  | 
          
| Jan 21 | Jim Colliander, University of Toronto 
               Global well-posedness and scattering for the H^1 critical quintic NLS on R^3  | 
          
| Jan 28 | Dejan Slepcev, University of Toronto Dynamics of long-wave unstable thin-film equations  | 
          
| Feb 4 | Dario Cordero-Erausquin, Universite 
              de Marne-la-Vallee On the extension of Prekopa's Inequality to Plurisubharmonic Functions  | 
          
| Feb 11 | Sarah Raynor, University of Toronto & The 
              Fields Institute Fixed Boundary Regularity for an Elliptic Free Boundary Problem  | 
          
| Feb 18 | No Seminar | 
| Feb 25 | Adrian Butscher, University of Toronto | 
| Mar 3 | Najma Ahmad, University of Toronto The Geometry of Shape Recognition Via Optimal Transport  | 
          
| Mar 10 | Andrei Biryuk, The Fields Institute Flows with no Pressure, Geometry, and Turbulence  | 
          
| Mar 17 | No Seminar | 
| Mar 24 | Pedro Goldbaum | 
| Mar 31 | Alexandru Tamasan, University of Toronto Inverse scattering in D-bar equations and reconstruction of convection terms  | 
          
| Apr 7 | Alvaro Cartea Generalised Fractional-Black-Scholes Equation: Pricing and Hedging  | 
          
| Apr 14 | Yi Long Ni | 
| Apr 21 | Jean-Claude Saut, Universite de 
              Paris-Sud The Program of P.H.Roberts et al on the Gross-Pitaevski Equation  | 
          
| Apr 28 | Anne de Bouard, Universite de Paris-Sud Stochastic Perturbations of Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations  | 
          
| May 5 | Guillaume van Baalen, Universite 
              de Geneva Phase Turbulence in the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation, a Rigorous Approach  | 
          
| May 14 **Date/Room Change**  | 
            Andrei Biryuk, Fields Institute 
              and McMaster An application of the degree theory for PDE (to be held in room 210)  | 
          
| May 19 | Nikolai Melnikov, Moscow State University Bifurcations of Periodic Solutions in Hamiltonian Systems  | 
          
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               2003 
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| Sept 10 |  Walter Craig, McMaster University & The 
              Fields Institute Zakharov's Hamiltonian for Surface Water Waves and its Long Wave Limits  | 
          
| Sept 17 | J. Douglas Wright, McMaster University & 
              The Fields Institute How Accurate is the KdV Approximation to the Water Wave Equation?  | 
          
| Sept 24 | No speaker due to the short course on Fluid Dynamics | 
| Oct 1 | Gunther Uhlmann, University of 
              Washington  (as part of the Symposium on Inverse Problems)  | 
          
| Oct 8 | Stefanella Boatto, McMaster University 
              & The Fields Institute The Dynamics of Billiards  | 
          
| Oct 15 | Avi Soffer, Rutgers University Multichannel Nonlinear Dispersive Waves: The Case of NLS with Potentials  | 
          
| Oct 22 | *2:10 - 3:00* Pieter Blue, Rutgers University Decay estimates for the wave equation on the Schwarzschild manifold  | 
          
| Oct 29 | No seminar due to McMaster Britton Lectures | 
| Nov 5 | No seminar due to 2003 CRM-Fields Prize Lectures | 
| Nov 12 | Emanuelle Servat, The Fields Institute Resonances for the Schrodinger Operator  | 
          
| Nov 19 | Mattheus Grasselli, McMaster University Partial Differential Equations in Mathematical Finance  | 
          
| Nov 26 | Rustum Choksi, The Fields Institute On Some Direct Methods in the Calculus of Variations  | 
          
| Dec 3 | Tadashi Tokieda, CUNY Graduate 
              Center and AIMS Openness of momentum maps and symmetric Hamiltonian dynamics  | 
          
| Dec 10 |  
               1:10-2:00 p.m.  | 
          
| Dec 17 | No seminar | 
| Dec 24 | No seminar | 
| Dec 31 | No seminar |