"Nonlinear PDEs: Homogenization and Kinetic Equations", Vienna, June 26-30, 2006

Conference Location: Kreiskyforum, Armbrustergasse 15, 1190 Vienna
Preliminary Conference Programme
Monday, 26th June 2006
9.00 Registration
9.30Opening
9.45-10.15Pierre DEGOND (CNRS/Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
"Asymptotically stable methods for plasmas in the quasineutral limit"
10.15-10.45Yoshio SONE (University Kyoto,Japan)
"Asymptotic Analysis of the Boltzmann System for Small Knudsen Numbers and Ghost Effects in a gas in the continuum limit"
10.45-11.15Coffe break
11.15-11.45Martin BURGER (Industrial Mathematics Institute/RICAM, Linz, Austria)
"Computational Metric Gradient Flows"
11.45-12.15Piotr BILER (University Wroclaw, Poland)
"Radially symmetric solutions of a chemotaxis model in the critical case"
12.15-2.25Lunch break
2.25-2.30Christian SCHMEISER (WPI and University Vienna)
"Welcome – Mathematical Biology at the WPI"
2.30-3.30Benoit PERTHAME (ENS, Paris, France)
"Population balance laws: the method of generalized entropy"
3.30-4.00Vic SMALL (IMBA, Vienna)
"The toolbox of moving cells: a feast for mathematical analysis?"
4.00Coffee
Tuesday, 27th June 2006
9.30-10.00 Juan Luis VAZQUEZ (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
"Measure-valued solutions in logarithmic diffusion equations"
10.00-10.30Nader MASMOUDI (Courant Institute, NYC; USA)
"Micro-macro models for polymeric flow"
10.30-11.00Coffee berak
11.00-11.30Anne-Laure DALLIBARD (CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine, France)
"Homogenization of a quasilinear parabolic equation with vanishing viscosity"
11.30-12.00Kazuo AOKI (Kyoto University, Japan)
"Diffusion Models for Knudsen-type pumps"
12.00-12.30Armando MAJORANA (Università di Catania, Italy)
"A deterministic method for solving the Boltzmann equation"
12.30-2.00Lunch break
2.00-2.30Ester GABETTA (Università di Pavia, Italy)
"Convergence in distribution of the velocity of a Kac molecule: A Central limit theorem approach"
2.30-3.00Eugenio REGAZZINI (Università di Pavia, Italy)
"Convergence in distribution of the velocity of a Kac molecule: rates and stability"
3.00-3.30Coffee break
3.30-4.00Marco DI FRANCESCO (Università L`Aquila, Italy)
"Large Time Behaviour of Nonlocal Aggregation Models with Nonlinear Diffusion"
4.00-4.30Seok-Bae YUN (Seoul National University, Korea)
"Uniform L 1 Stability of the Boltzmann Equation Near a Local Maxwellian"
Wednesday, 28th June 2006
10.00-10.30 Giuseppe TOSCANI (Universitá di Pavia, Italy)
"Self-Similarity and Power-like Tails in Nonconservative Kinetic Models"
10.30-11.00Gregoire ALLAIRE (Ecole Polytechniques, Palaiseaux, France)
"Localization for the Schrödinger equation in a locally periodic medium"
11.00-11.30Coffee break
11.30-12.00Enrique ZUAZUA (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain)
"Finite difference approximation of homogenization problems for elliptic equations"
12.00-12.30Antoine MELLET (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
"Homogenization of some free boundary problems"
12.30-2.30Lunch break
2.30-3.00Raffaele ESPOSITO (Università L`Aquila, Italy)
"On the derivation of kinetic equations from quantum mechanics"
3.00-3.30Christian RINGHOFER (Arizona State University, USA)
"Quantum Monte Carlo methods based on a multi-scale approach"
3.30-4.00Coffee break
4.00-4.30Michael RASCLE (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France)
"Macroscopic and Hybrid Modeling of junctions for second Order Models of the Traffic Flow"
4.30-5.00Jorge ZUBELLI (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
"On the Asymptotics of Fast Mean-Reversion Stochastic Volatility Models in Finances"
5.00-5.30Coffee break
5.30-6.00Shu WANG (Bejing University of Technology, China)
"Quasineutral limit of drift-diffusion models for semiconductors"
6.00-6.30Christof SPARBER (University of Vienna)
"Effective mass theorems for nonlinear Schrödinger equations"
7.30Reception
Thursday, 29th June 2006
10.00-10.30 David C. LEVERMORE (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
"Entropy-Based Closures of Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics"
10.30-11.00Hailiang LIU (Iowa State University, USA)
"Computing Multi-valued Solutions for Euler-Poisson Equations"
11.00-11.30Coffee break
11.30-12.00Florian MEHATS (IRMAR, Univ. Rennes 1, France)
"Time averaging for the strongly confined nonlinear Schrödinger equation"
12.00-12.30Viktor GERASIMENKO (Kiev, Ukraine)
"Mathematical problems of the derivation on nonlinear kinetic equations"
12.30-2.30Lunch break
2.30-3.00Weizhu BAO (National University of Singapure)
"Dynamics of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates and their efficient and accurate numerical computation"
3.00-3.30Fernando QUIROS (U. Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
"Asymptotic behaviour of the porous media equation in domains with holes"
3.30-4.00Alexis F.VASSEUR (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
"L^p estimates for quantities advected by a compressible flow"
4.00-4.30Coffee break
4.30-5.00Christian KLEIN (MPG, Leipzig, Germany)
"Numerical treatment of the small dispersion limit of Kortweg de Vries and Whitham equations"
5.00-5.30Gulliaume BAL (Columbia University NYC, USA)
5.30-6.00Massimo FORNASIER (RICAM, Linz)
"Variational methods, in painting, and art restoration"
Friday, 30th June 2006
10.00-10.30 Eric CARLEN (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA)
"Entropy and Chaos in the KAC model"
10.30-11.00Shigeru TAKATA (Kyoto University, Japan)
"Half-space problem of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation for weak evaporation and condensation of a binary mixture of vapore"
11.00-11.30Coffee break
11.30-12.00Ansgar JÜNGEL (University Mainz, Germany)
"An algorithmic method for the derivation of a priori estimates for Nonlinear higher-order PDEs"
12.00-12.30Maria C. CARVALHO (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
"Droplet minimizers for free energy functionals with a liquid-vapor transition at the droplet formation threshold"
12.30-2.00Lunch break
2.00-2.30Antonio LEITAO (Federal University of St. Caterina, Florianopolis, Brazil)
"On inverse doping profile problems for the stationary VC map"
2.30-3.00Fabio A.C.C. CHALUB (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
"The continous Moran Process"
3.00-3.30Coffee break
3.30-4.00Rafael ORIVE (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
"Weakly non-linear long-time behaviour of solutions to a hyperbolic relaxation"
Administration: Renate Feikes, Contact: Wittgenstein.mathematik@univie.ac.at