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                  September 18-20, 2008 
                    Conference on Non-linear Phenomena in Mathematical Physics: 
                     
                    Dedicated to Cathleen Synge Morawetz  
                    on her 85th birthday 
                    to be held at 
                    Fields Institute,  
                    222 College Street, Toronto
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                   Co-sponsored by: 
                  
                  
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                   Organizing Committee 
                    Jim Colliander (University of Toronto), Susan Friedlander 
                    (University of Southern California) 
                    Irene M. Gamba (U. Texas at Austin) - Committee Chair, Fern 
                    Hunt (NIST) 
                    Barbara L. Keyfitz (Fields Institute, Canada), Walter Strauss 
                    (Brown University) 
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            The list of invited speakers includes:
             
              
                 
                  Claude Bardos, ( Paris VI) 
                    Lia Bronsard, (McMaster) 
                    Suncica Canic, (Houston) 
                    Gui Qiang Chen, (Northwestern) 
                    Costas Dafermos, ( Brown) 
                    Susan Friedlander (Southern California) 
                    Irene M. Gamba (Texas at Austin)  
                    Manoussos Grillakis, (Maryland) 
                    Yan Guo (Brown) 
                    Tom Hou (CalTech) | 
                  Izabella Laba, (British Columbia) 
                    Peter Lax, (Courant) 
                    Louis Nirenberg, (Courant)  
                    Kevin Payne, (Milano) 
                    Jalal Shatah, (Courant)  
                    Sylvia Serfaty, (Courant & Universite Pierre et Marie 
                    Curie). 
                    G. Staffilani, (MIT) 
                    Walter Strauss (Brown University) 
                    S.R.S Varadhan (Courant) 
                    H.T Yau (Harvard) | 
                 
               
             
            POSTER SESSION  
              Students and postdoctoral fellows are invited to make poster submissions. 
              Poster boards will be available on site 36" X 42". There 
              will not be any provision for contributed talks at the meeting. 
              However, any participant who wishes to present a poster is invited 
              to submit a title and abstract by August 15.  
             
            BANQUET IN HONOUR OF CATHLEEN MORAWETZ, 
              September 19, 2008.  
             
            FINANCIAL SUPPORT: Support for graduate students and postdoctoral 
              fellows to cover travel and local expenses will be available through 
              the Fields Institute. The application deadline is August 1, 2008. 
               
             
            PROGRAM
            
               
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                | Thursday September 18, 2008 | 
               
               
                | Morning Session  | 
               
               
                | 8:00 - 8:45am  | 
                Check-In/Continental Breakfast ( hosted by Fields) | 
               
               
                |  8:45 - 9:00am  | 
                Barbara Keyfitz, Fields Institute Director 
                  Welcome and Opening Remarks | 
               
               
                | 9:00 - 9:40am  | 
                Walter Strauss, Brown University 
                  Two Problems: Nonlinear 
                  Wave Scattering and Plasma Stability | 
               
               
                | 9:45 - 10:25am  | 
                Claude Bardos, University of Paris VI, 
                  France 
                  Remarks on Navier Stokes 
                  and Euler Equation | 
               
               
                |  10:30 – 10:50am  | 
                Break | 
               
               
                | 10:50 - 11:30am  | 
                Costas Dafermos, Brown University 
                  Hyperbolic Conservation 
                  Laws with Weak Dissipation | 
               
               
                | 11:35am – 12:15pm  | 
                Sylvia Serfaty, Courant Institute of Mathematical 
                  Sciences, NYU and Universite Pierre et Marie Curie 
                  From the Ginzburg-Landau 
                  energy to vortex lattice problems  | 
               
               
                | 12:20 - 2:15pm  | 
                Lunch (on your own) | 
               
               
                | Afternoon Session | 
               
               
                | 2:15-2:55pm  | 
                Louis Nirenberg, Courant Institute 
                  of Mathematical Sciences, New York University 
                  Some remarks on nonlinear 
                  second order elliptic equations. | 
               
               
                | 3:00-3:20pm | 
                Coffee Break | 
               
               
                | 3:20-4:00pm  | 
                Gigliola Staffilani, MIT 
                  Kato's smoothing effect 
                  for solutions to the  capillary water-wave problem. | 
               
               
                | 4:00– 6:00 pm  | 
                Reception (cash bar) and Poster Session | 
               
               
                | Friday September 19, 2008 | 
               
               
                | Morning Session | 
               
               
                | 8:15 - 9:00am  | 
                Continental 
                  Breakfast ( hosted by Fields) | 
               
               
                | 9:00 - 9:40am  | 
                Peter Lax, Courant 
                  Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University 
                  Spectral Representation and 
                  Translation Representation.  | 
               
               
                | 9:45 – 10:25am  | 
                 
                   Yan Guo, Brown University 
                    Boltzmann equation in bounded 
                    domains. 
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                | 10:30 – 10:50am  | 
                Break | 
               
               
                | 10:50-11:30 am  | 
                 
                   Irene M. Gamba, The University of Texas at Austin 
                    Sharp estimates for the 
                    Boltzmann Equation 
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                | 11:35-12:15 pm  | 
                Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern 
                  University, USA 
                  Shock Reflection-Diffraction 
                  Phenomena, Transonic Flow, and Free Boundary Problems | 
               
               
                | 12:20 - 2:15pm  | 
                Lunch (on your own) | 
               
               
                | Afternoon Session | 
               
               
                | 2:15-2:55pm  | 
                Horng-Tzer Yau, Harvard University 
                  Lower bounds on the blow-up 
                  rate of the axisymmetric Navier-Stokes equations | 
               
               
                | 3:00-3:20pm | 
                Coffee Break | 
               
               
                | 3:20-4:00pm  | 
                Susan Friedlander, University 
                  of Southern California 
                  Energy Conservation 
                  and Onsager's Conjecture for the Euler Equations | 
               
               
                | 4:05-4:15 pm | 
                Break  | 
               
               
                | 4:15-4:55pm  | 
                Tom Hou, CalTech 
                  On the stabilizing effect of 
                  convection in 3D incompressible flows | 
               
               
                | 6:30pm  | 
                Banquet dinner at the Faculty Club | 
               
               
                | Saturday September 20, 2008 | 
               
               
                | Morning Session | 
               
               
                | 8:15 - 9:00am  | 
                Continental Breakfast ( hosted by 
                  Fields) | 
               
               
                | 9:00 - 9:40am  | 
                S.R.S Varadhan, Courant Institute of Mathematical 
                  Sciences, NYU 
                  Large deviations for Random 
                  walks in a Random Environment | 
               
               
                | 9:45 – 10:25am  | 
                Izabella Laba, The University of British 
                  Columbia 
                  Arithmetic progressions in 
                  sets of fractional dimension | 
               
               
                | 10:30 – 10:50am  | 
                Break | 
               
               
                | 10:50-11:30 am  | 
                Manoussos Grillakis, The University of 
                  Maryland 
                  Correlation Estimates 
                  and Applications to Schroedinger Equations   | 
               
               
                | 11:35 – 12:15pm  | 
                Jalal Shatah, Courant Institute of Mathematical 
                  Sciences, NYU 
                  The Method of Space-time Resonances | 
               
               
                | 12:20 - 2:15pm  | 
                Lunch (on your own) | 
               
               
                | Afternoon session | 
               
               
                | 2:15-2:55pm  | 
                Lia Bronsard, McMaster University  
                  On the mixed state in anisotropic 
                  superconductors  | 
               
               
                | 3:00-3:20pm | 
                Coffee Break | 
               
               
                | 3:15 – 3:55pm  | 
                Kevin Payne, Universita di 
                  Milano 
                  Weak well-posedness of the 
                  Dirichlet problem for equations of mixed elliptic-hyperbolic 
                  type | 
               
               
                | 4:00  | 
                Closing remarks  | 
               
               
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                Sunny Canic, Houston University (unable 
                  to attend) | 
               
             
            PARTICIPANT LIST 
            
               
                | Fullname | 
                University Name | 
               
               
                | Alonso, Ricardo | 
                University of Texas | 
               
               
                | Bae, Hantaek | 
                Courant Institute | 
               
               
                | Bardos, Claude | 
                Universite de Paris 6 et Paris 7 | 
               
               
                | Bociu, Lorena | 
                University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 
               
               
                | Bronsard, Lia | 
                McMaster University | 
               
               
                | Canic, Suncica | 
                University of Houston | 
               
               
                | Cerezo, Richard | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Challal, Samia | 
                Fields Institute | 
               
               
                | Chen, Gui-Qiang | 
                Northwestern University | 
               
               
                | Cheng, Bin | 
                University of Michigan | 
               
               
                | Chugunova, Marina | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Colliander, James | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Dafermos, Constantine | 
                Brown University | 
               
               
                | D'Ambroise, Jennie | 
                University of Massachusetts Amherst | 
               
               
                | Davis, Chandler | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Ding, Qian | 
                Northwestern University | 
               
               
                | Friedlander, Susan | 
                University of Southern California | 
               
               
                | Galvão-Sousa, Bernardo | 
                McMaster University | 
               
               
                | Gamba, Irene | 
                University of Texas | 
               
               
                | Grillakis, Manoussos | 
                University of Maryland | 
               
               
                | Guevara, Cristi Darley | 
                Arizona State University | 
               
               
                | Guo, Yan | 
                Brown University | 
               
               
                | Hou, Thomas | 
                Caltech | 
               
               
                | Hunt, Fern | 
                National Institute of Standards and Technology | 
               
               
                | Keyfitz, Barbara | 
                University of Houston and Fields Institute | 
               
               
                | Klingenberg, Christian | 
                Wurzburg University | 
               
               
                | Laba, Izabella | 
                University of British Columbia | 
               
               
                | Lax, Peter | 
                Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences | 
               
               
                | Li, Tong | 
                University of Iowa | 
               
               
                | Lupo, Daniela | 
                Politecnico di Milano | 
               
               
                | Molahajloo, Shahla | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Momeni, Abbas | 
                Queen's University | 
               
               
                | Moore, Matthew | 
                University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill | 
               
               
                | Morawetz Jeck, Lida | 
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                | Morawetz, John S. | 
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                | Morawetz, Nancy | 
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                | Nirenberg, Louis | 
                Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences | 
               
               
                | Payne, Kevin | 
                Universita` degli Studi di Milano | 
               
               
                | Popivanov, Nedyu | 
                "St. Kl. Ohridski" University of Sofia | 
               
               
                | Radu, Petronela | 
                University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 
               
               
                | Riehm, Carl | 
                McMaster University | 
               
               
                | Rubinstein, Pegeen | 
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                | Ruskai, Mary Beth | 
                Tufts Unvierstiy | 
               
               
                | Serfaty, Sylvia | 
                Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences | 
               
               
                | Sever, Michael | 
                The Hebrew University | 
               
               
                | Shatah, Jalal M.I. | 
                Courant Institute | 
               
               
                | Sinclair, Tony | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Staffilani, Gigliola | 
                Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 
               
               
                | Strauss, Walter | 
                Brown University | 
               
               
                | Suazo, Erwin | 
                Arizona State University | 
               
               
                | Sulem, Catherine | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Synge Morawetz, Cathleen | 
                Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU | 
               
               
                | Thoren, Elizabeth | 
                University of Texas at Austin | 
               
               
                | Varadhan, S.R.S. | 
                Courant Institute of Mathematics | 
               
               
                | Vicol, Vlad | 
                University of Southern California | 
               
               
                | Walker, Homer | 
                Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 
               
               
                | Warchall, Henry | 
                National Science Foundation | 
               
               
                | Yau, Horng-Tzer | 
                Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences | 
               
               
                | Zhao, Guowei | 
                SUNY-Buffalo | 
               
               
                | To Be Confirmed | 
               
               
                | Ryabukha, Tatiana | 
                Institute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine | 
               
               
                | Wu, Sijue | 
                University of Michigan | 
               
               
                | Hougland, Juliet | 
                Reed College | 
               
               
                | Abou Salem, Walid | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Cami, Ermira | 
                Virginia Polytech Inst and State Univ. | 
               
               
                | Kim, Eunheui | 
                California State University Long Beach | 
               
               
                | Pan, Wu San | 
                Rust College | 
               
             
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