Past Seminars

Date	Speaker	Title/Abstract
Mar 29/19	Tao Xu Department of Mathematics China University of Petroleum-Beijing	Stationary solutions of the nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Feb 1/19	Cheng Yang , McMaster	Casimir’s basis in 3D magnetohydrodynamics
Jan 25/19	Fabio Matheus Amorin Natali State University of Marina, Brazil	Periodic traveling-wave solutions for Korteweg-de Vries type equations: sufficient conditions for orbital stability and applications
Dec 7/18	Andrew Comech Texas A&M University	Spectral stabililty of small solitary waves in the nonlinear Dirac equation
Nov 23/18	Soonsik Kwon Daejeon, Korea	Scattering of the defocusing generalized Benjamin-Ono equations
Nov 16/18	Hyungjin Huh Chung-Ang University Seoul, Korea	Remarks on Chern-Simons-Schrodinger equations
Nov 2/18	Dario Valdebenito, McMaster University	Some generic properties of Schrödinger operators with radial potentials
Apr 13/18	Cheng Yang, McMaster University	Oscillating flows, Central extensions, and a generalized Craik-Leibovich equation
Mar 23/18	Carlos Garcia-Azpeitia Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	Steady waves in flows over periodic streambeds
Dec 15/17	Hyungjin Huh Department of Mathematics University of Seoul, South Korea	Dynamical system approach to synchronization of the coupled Schroedinger–Lohe system
Nov 24/17	Jiaqi Liu University of Toronto	Global well-posedness in the derivative NLS equation
Nov 17/17	Nikolai Savelliev	On gauge theoretic invariants of homology S^1 x S^3
Nov 10/17	Peter Perry University of Kentucky	Inverse Scattering and Dispersive PDE’s in Two Dimensions
Nov 3/17	Xinliang An Fields Institute	On Singularity Formation in General Relativity
Sept 29/17	Dario Valdebenito McMaster University	Existence of quasiperiodic solutions of elliptic equations on the entire space
Sept 15/17	Walter Craig McMaster University	Evolution equations: is the solution map of a PDE a flow?
April 7/17	Dr. Chun Liu Penn State University	General Diffusion in Biological Environments
Mar 17/17	Cy Maor University of Toronto	Non-Euclidean elasticity and asymptotic rigidity of manifolds
Jan 20/17	Jinbing Chen Dept of Mathematics Southeast University	The negative-order KdV hierarchy and its algebra-geometric solutions
Dec 16/16	Dmitry Golovaty Akron University	Dimension Reduction for the Landau-de Gennes Model In Thin Nematic Films
Nov 25/16	Tetsu Mizumachi Hiroshima University, Japan	On stability of line solitons for the KP-II equation
Oct 14/16	Alexandre Boritchev University of Lyon, France	1D and multi-d Burgers Turbulence as a model case for the Kolmogorov Theory
Sept 16/16	T.H. Hsu McMaster University	Viscous singular shock profiles for some systems of conservation laws
Apr 1/16	Clarence Eugene Wayne Boston University	tba
Mar 31/16	Ke Zhang Toronto	Recent developments in Arnold diffusion
Mar 18/16	Kyle Thompson University of Toronto	Superconducting Interfaces
Mar 11/16	Yuri Cher University of Toronto	Structure of singular profiles for a class of derivative nonlinear Schrodinger Equations
Mar 8/16	Ignacio Garcia University of Waterloo	Self similar sets with overlaps and packing dimension
Jan 22/16	Benjamin Melinand Universite de Bordeaux	The Proudman resonance
Dec 11/15	Carlos Garcia-Azpeitia Departamento de Mathematicas, UNAM	Periodic traveling and standing waves in a circular chain of coupled pendula and Newton’s cradle
Nov 27/15	Chun-Kit Lai San Francisco State University	Exponential bases and frames on fractals
Nov 13/15	Catherine Sulem University of Toronto	Normal forms transformations for water waves
Nov 6/15	Pascal Poullet McGill University and Guadeloupe	On the dynamic variant of the penalty-projection method for incompressible fluids
Oct 30/15	Kostya Khanin University of Toronto	tba
Oct 23/15	G. Alfinov Moscow	Phenomenon of “sliding velocities” in nonlinear dispersive models
Oct 9/15	Livia Corsi McMaster University	An abstract KAM
Sept 25/15	Nicholas Kevlahan Math & Stats Dept McMaster University	Compressive sampling for estimating the energy spectra of turbulent flows
Sept 18/15	S. Alama Math & Stats Dept McMaster University	On singularities in nematic liquid crystals
Mar 6/15	Luda Korobenko McMaster University	Continuity of weak solutions to infinitely degenerate elliptic equations via Sobolev inequalities for associate metrics
Feb 13/15	Roberto Feola University of Rome	Quasi-periodic solutions for quasilinear forced NLS
Feb 6/15	Ihsan Topaloglu McMaster University	Minimizers of Purely Nonlocal Attractive-Repulsive Energies via Interaction Regularization
Dec 12/14	Timur Akhunov Rochester University	Hypoellipticity beyond Hormander’s bracket criterion
Nov 21/14	Jun Kitagawa Fields Institute, Toronto	Toward regularity of weak solutions to generated Jacobian equations
Nov 5/14	Manuel V. Gnann Fields Institute, Toronto	The moving contact line in viscous thin films: a singular free boundary problem
Oct 28/14	Nestor Guillen Fields Institute	The Aleksandrov estimate: from second order to integro-differential equations
Oct 24/14	Issa Karambal Sheridan College	Evans function and Fredholm determinant
Oct 15/14	Damir Kinzebulatov Fields Institute, Toronto	Feller evolution families and parabolic equations with form-bounded vector fields
Apr 16/14	Henrik Kalisch University of Bergen	Mechanical Balance Laws for Boussinesq and KdV equations
Mar 26/14	Xavier Lamy Universite de Llyon 1 and McMaster University	Ginzburg-Landau equation with semi-stiff conditions
Mar 5/14	Yusuke Shimabukuro McMaster University	Orbital stability of solitons in the massive Thirring model via Backlund transformation
Feb 12/14	Chi-Ru Yang Fields Institute	Applications of Nash-Moser theorem
Feb 5/14	Stan Alama McMaster University	The Weak Anchoring Condition for Two-Dimensional Nematic Liquid Crystals
Dec 4/13	Andres Contreras McMaster University	Concentration of points near a curve in certain variational problems
Nov 27/13	Carlos Garcia-Azpeitia McMaster University	Construction of a periodic standing wave for n corotating vortex filaments from a central configuration
Nov 13/13	Amanda French McMaster University	Global Existence for Semilinear Waves on Hyperbolic Space of High Dimension
May 8/13	Peter Sternberg Indiana University	Motion of Ginzburg-Landau and Gross-Pitaevskii Vortices on Surfaces
Apr 5/13	Dan Geba University of Rochester	Ill-posedness results for generalized Boussinesq equations
Mar 22/13	Kivilcim Alkan Brock University	Inelastic Curve Flows in 2- and 3- Dimensional Minkowskian Space
Mar 15/13	Elena D. Avdonina Ufa State Aviation Technical University, Russia	Conservation laws and particular solutions of anisotropic heat equation
Feb 1/13	Timur Akhunov University of Calgary	A sharp condition for the well-posedness of the linear KdV equation on R
Jan 25/13	Mohammad El Smaily University of Toronto	Fronts in Heterogeneous Media: Speed up by Flows
Nov 9/12	Mihaela Ifrim Mathematics & Statistics McMaster University	Normal form transformations for quasilinear wave equations
Nov 2/12	Nicholas Kevlahan Mathematics & Statistics McMaster University	A conservative adaptive wavelet method for the shallow water equations on staggered grids
Oct 5/12	Andres Contreras Mathematics & Statistics McMaster University	TBA
Sep 28/12	Amanda French Mathematics & Statistics McMaster University	TBA
Sep 21/12		Discussion Session
Sep 14/12	Walter Craig Mathematics & Statistics McMaster University	Vortex filament interactions

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