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Conference on Noncompact Variational Problems and General Relativity
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Date & time: Sunday, 14 October 2001 at 8:00AM - 5:00PM
in honor of H. Brezis and F.E. Browder, in memory of the innocent victims who fell on September 11th 2001
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14th - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2001
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 - Session Chair - H. Hofer Core - Lecture Hall 8:45 - 9:00 CONFERENCE OPENS - Prof. R. Falk and Prof. Paul Rabinowitz 9:00 - 10:00 Remarks on the Distance Function and Cut Locus L. Nirenberg, Courant Institute 10:00 - 10:15 COFFEE 10:15 - 11:15 Lack and Restoration of Compactness for Sequences of Mappings with Equibounded Energies Mariano Giaquinta, Scuola Normale Superiore 11:20 - 12:20 Mixed states for an Allen-Cahn equation P. Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin 12:20 - 2:00 LUNCH 2:00 - 3:00 Eigenfunctions of Max-Plus Operators and State-Dependent Delay Equations J. Mallet-Paret, Brown University 3:00 - 3:15 COFFEE 3:15 - 4:15 Regularity of Pseudo-Holomorphic Maps Gang Tian, MIT 4:20 - 5:20 On Existence and Description of Formation of Singularity for the Critical Generalized KdV Equation Frank Merle, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2001 - Session Chair - R. Nussbaum Hill - 705 9:00 - 10:00 Topology of Sobolev Mappings F. H. Lin, Courant Institute 10:00 - 10:15 COFFEE 10:15 - 11:15 Vorticity for the Ginzburg-Landau Energy with Magnetic Field Sylvia Serfaty, Courant Institute 11:20 - 12:20 Asymptotics for the Ginzburg-Landau Equations F. Bethuel, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie 12:20 - 2:00 LUNCH 2:00 - 3:00 On a Class of Singular Perturbation Problems Involving a "Circular-Well" Potential I. Shafrir, Technion, Haifa 3:00 - 3:15 COFFEE 3:15 - 4:15 Hamilton Formalism for the Calculus of Variations with Several Variables F. Helein, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan 4:20 - 5:20 Barycentric Sets in Topological Arguments. The Case of the CR Yamabe Problem Ridha Yacoub, Institute Preparatoire aux Etudes d' Ingenieurs de Monastir TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2001 - Session Chair - Y. Li - morning Hill - 705 J. Taylor - afternoon 9:00 - 10:00 Geometry of Contact Domains and Transformations Y. Eliashberg, Stanford University and I.A.S 10:00 - 10:15 COFFEE 10:15 - 11:15 Sympletic Challenges H. Hofer, Courant Institute 11:20 - 12:20 Multiplicity of Closed Characteristics on Symmetric Convex Hypersurfaces in $R^(2N)$ Y. M. Long, Nankai University (?) 12:20 - 2:00 LUNCH 2:00 - 3:00 Relative Gromov-Witten invariants and their application E. Ionel, IAS and University of Wisconsin 3:00 - 3:15 COFFEE 3:15 - 4:15 Topology and Conformal Theory of the CMC Moduli Space R. Mazzeo, Stanford University 4:20 - 5:20 Spaces of Loops in Configuration Spaces for Manifolds, and Analogues of Artin's Braid Groups F. Cohen, University of Rochester --------------------------- 7:00 - (9:00-9:30) Diner in honor of H. Brezis and F.E. Browder Busch Dining Hall WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2001 - Session Chair - M. Vogelius - morning Hill - 705 S. Chanillo - afternoon 8:30 - 9:30 Homotopy of Unimodular Maps in Fractional Sobolev Spaces P. Mironescu, University of Paris - Sud 9:35 - 10:35 Full Regularity of Energy-Minimizing free Boundaries in 3 Dimensions D. Jerison, MIT 10:35 - 10:45 COFFEE 10:45 - 11:45 Embedded Minimal Surfaces in 3-Manifolds T. Colding, Princeton University 11:50 - 12:50 A Fully Nonlinear Equation Related to Curvature Pinching A. Chang, Princeton University 12:50 - 2:00 LUNCH 2:00 - 3:00 Pohozaev type Obstructions and Solutions of Bounded Energy for Nonlinear Elliptic Equations of Critical Growth E. Hebey, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise 3:00 - 3:15 COFFEE 3:15 - 4:15 A Non Existence Result for Yamabe Type Problems on Thin Annuli M. Ben Ayed, University of Sfax 4:20 - 5:20 On Some Yamabe Type Problems on Manifolds with Boundaries M. Ould Ahmedou, Rheinische Fredrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2001 - Session Chair - S. Klainerman - morning Core - Lecture Hall - afternoon 9:00 - 10:00 Neckpinching in Mean Curvature Flow G. Huisken, Eberhard Karls Universitat, Tubingen 10:00 - 10:15 COFFEE 10:15 - 11:15 Some Recent Progress on Strong Cosmic Censorship M. Dafermos, MIT 11:20 - 12:20 Cubic Quasilinear Wave Equation and Bilinear Estimates H. Bahouri, Univ. Tunis II 12:20 - 2:00 LUNCH 2:00 - 3:00 On the Blow up Phenomenon for the Critical Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation G. Perelman, Ecole Polytechnique 3:00 - 3:15 COFFEE 3:15 - 4:15 Rough Einstein Metrics and Local Well Posedness for the Vacuum Einstein Equations I. Rodnianski, Princeton University 4:20 - 5:20 S. Klainerman
This is almost a final schedule. One or two variations may still be possible. 10/13/01
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