Iowa PDE/Applied Math Seminar 2004

October   09, Saturday

 Department of Mathematics , Iowa State University
Lecture Room: Carver  Hall  268

 

Morning Session

9:30 --9:50

Coffee will be served at Carver 404

9:50--10:35


 Alexandre Boukhgueim, Wichita State
Attenuated vector tomography on the plane
 

10:40--11:25
Chun Liu, IMA & Penn State
On Viscoelastic Fluids
 
11:40--12:25


Chunshan Zhao, University of Iowa
Locating the peaks of least energy solutions to a class of quasilinear elliptic Neumann problems

 

12:30 - 2:00

 Lunch

 

Afternoon Session

2:00--2:45


Victor Isakov, Wichita State
Increased stability in the Cauchy problem for the Helmholtz equation
 

2:50--3:35


Gary Lieberman, Iowa State University
Some unusual regularity results for singular parabolic equations
 

3:35--4:00

 Coffee break

4:00--4:45


Lihe Wang,
University of Iowa
 Existence and estimates on parabolic Reifenberg  flat domains
 

5:00 Meeting ends

 

Abstract ( Alexandre Boukhgueim )

Attenuated vector tomography on the plane
Using the theory of A-analytic functions we obtain exact inversion formulas for recovering the full vector field through its scalar attenuated Radon transform.

AbstractChun Liu )

On Viscoelastic Fluids
In this talk, I will present some recent results on several different models for the viscoelastic  materials.
 

AbstractChunshan Zhao )

Locating the peaks of least energy solutions to a class of quasi-linear elliptic Neumann problems
We study the shape of least energy solutions to a class of singularly perturbed quasi-linear elliptic equations with Neumann boundary conditions. First we give an upper bound for the least energy which is closely related to the mean curvature of boundary. Then we locate the point where concentration happens.
Some symmetry properties of the least energy solutions will also be presented.
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AbstractVictor Isakov )

Increased stability in the Cauchy problem for the Helmholtz equation
We consider the Cauchy problem for the Helmholtz equation with the data on some surface S. We give a new estimate showing that when frequency/wave number in increasing, the stability of solution u to the Helmholtz equation is increasing in the convex hull of S. The proof consists of splitting u into  high- and low frequency components and using standard hyperbolic energy estimates for low frequencies and new Carleman type estimates for high frequencies. Due to classical results of Fritz John with growing frequency stability deteriorates outside of convex hull of S. WE formulate open problems and future direction of research.
 

AbstractGary Lieberman)

Some unusual regularity results for singular parabolic equations
It is well-known that solutions of the heat equation are quite regular in the parabolic interior of their domain of definition; however, the same is not true of solutions of p-Laplace type equations with p close to one. In this talk, we show that the local regularity of the solution is controlled by its initial regularity.


Abstract
Lihe Wang )

Existence and estimates on parabolic Reifenberg  flat domains

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