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Swansea University

Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear PDEs

WIMCSLMS Workshop

Friday 20 May 2011, Mathematics Department, Swansea University




Lectures will be held in the Mathematics Seminar Room (room 224, 2nd floor of the Talbot Bulding, labelled 8.3 on the Campus Map). Refreshments will be served in the adjacent Mathematics Common Room (room 223).

Friday 20 May 2011
12.30pm - 1.30pm Arrivals. Lunch in Aubrey Truman Room (room 213)
1.30pm - 2.20pm John Toland (Bath, UK)
Waves with prescribed distribution of vorticity
2.30pm - 3.20pm Veronica Felli (Milan, Italy)
Monotonicity methods for asymptotics of solutions to elliptic and parabolic equations near singularities of the potential
3.20pm - 4.00pm Tea
4.00pm - 4.50pm Jean Dolbeault (CEREMADE Paris, France)
Existence, symmetry and symmetry breaking for extremal functions of some interpolation functional inequalities
5.00pm - 5.50pm Gui-Qiang Chen (Oxford, UK)
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations of Mixed Elliptic-Hyperbolic Type
5.50pm Tea
7.00pm Dinner