A CMA-workshop on

Nonlinear PDEs: Theory, Numerics, and Applications

Oslo, April 26-27, 2004

Download workshop poster here.
Full list of participants here.

Introduction:
We are pleased to announce the informal workshop
"Nonlinear PDEs: Theory, Numerics, and Applications", which
will be held from April 26 to 27, 2004, at the Centre of
Mathematics for Applications (CMA), University of Oslo.
The workshop will focus on theoretical and computational
aspects as well as applications related to various types of
nonlinear partial differential equations.

Invited speakers:

• François Bouchut (Paris)
• Raimund Bürger (Suttgart)
• Snorre Christiansen (Oslo)
• Espen R. Jakobsen (Bergen)
• Corrado Mascia (Rome)
• Siddhartha Mishra (Bangalore)
• Peter Lindquist (Trondheim)
• Achim Schroll (Lund)
• Sigmund Selberg (Trondheim)
• Xue-Cheng Tai (Bergen)
• Nils Henrik Risebro (Oslo)
• Ragnar Winther (Oslo)

Time and place:

The workshop starts on

Monday April 26, 09.00, and ends on
Tuesday April 27, 16.30.

The workshop will take place in the CMA seminar room (B1036) in the Niels Henrik Abel building (mathematics building) on the 10th. floor. For more information on how to get to the venue, please send an email to kennethk@math.uio.no

All persons who are interested are welcome to attend this workshop.

Program (subject to change):

Monday:
0900-0945 François Bouchut. Title: Recent advances in linear transport equations with discontinuous coefficients. Abstract.
1000-1045 Sigmund Selberg. Title: Derivation of the Vlasov Poisson system from Dirac-Maxwell. Abstract.
1045-1115 **Coffee
1115-1200 Nils Henrik Risebro. Title: Numerical schemes for an asymptotic equation describing the director field of a nematic liquid crystal. Abstract.
1200-1330 **Lunch
1330-1415 Achim Schroll. Title: The art of reconstruction: Trading accuracy against variation. Abstract.
1430-1515 Siddhartha Mishra. Title: Restoration and Segmentation of Images by using the Topological Gradient. Abstract.
1515-1545 **Coffee
1545-1630 Snorre Christiansen. Title: A Compensated Compactness property of some Finite Element spaces. Abstract.

1900-.... Workshop dinner.

Tuesday:
0900-0945 Corrado Mascia Title: Hyperbolic systems with relaxation: asymptotic stability of traveling waves. Abstract.
1000-1045 Xue-Cheng Tai. Title: Some variants of the level set methods and applications to image segmentation and some other medical imaging problems. Abstract.
1045-1115 **Coffee
1115-1200 Ragnar Winther. Title: From the De Rham sequence to mixed finite elements for elasticity. Abstract.
1200-1330 **Lunch
1330-1415 Raimund Bürger. Title: Applications of strongly degenerate parabolic equations with discontinuous coefficients. Abstract.
1430-1515 Peter Lindquist. Title: Removability of a level set for solutions of quasilinear equations. Abstract.
1515-1545 **Coffee
1545-1630 Espen R. Jakobsen. Title: Error bounds for monotone approximation schemes for Hamilton-Jacobi Bellman equations. Abstract.

Organizing committee:

Giuseppe Maria Coclite (UiO/CMA)
Helge Holden (NTNU/CMA)
Kenneth Hvistendahl Karlsen (UiO/CMA)