Schedules

May 18, Sunday A.M.
8:00 – 9:00    Registration   9:00 – 9:30    Opening Session	Location: Bluebonnet Ballroom, E.H. Hereford University Center  (UC, on the campus map)

May 18, Sunday A.M. Sessions

Plenary Lectures 1-3 Chair:  Manuel de Leon, Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas, CSIC, Spain		Location: Bluebonnet Ballroom, UC
9:30 – 10:15	George Papanicolaou, Stanford University, USA
	Problems in scattering theory arising in the imaging of edges
10:15 – 11:00	Sijue Wu, University of Michigan, USA
	Almost global wellposedness of the 2-D full water wave equation
11:00 – 11:45	Hans Weinberger, University of Minnesota, USA
	Spreading speeds for a partially cooperative 2-species reaction-diffusion system

Lunch Break
11:45 – 13:30	Lunches Location: The Connection Cafe, E.H. Hereford University Center  (UC, on the campus map)

May 18, Sunday P.M. (1) Sessions

SS2:       Pattern Formation in Biology and Ecology: from Interfaces to Meta-solutions                  Organized by:       Jean-Michelet Jean-Michel, Julian Lopez-Gomez, T. Ouyang, and Yuanwei Qi		Location: 308 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Yuanwei Qi,   University of Central Florida, USA
	Traveling wave of Auto-catalytic chemical reactions
14:00 – 14:30	Yi Li,  University of Iowa, USA
	Stability of Traveling Waves with Noncritical Speeds for Double
14:30 – 15:00	Lei  Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
	Approximation theorems for a class of fourth order elliptic equations on Riemannian manifolds
15:00 – 15:30	Xiaojie  Hou, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA
	Stability of traveling wave solutions for a nonlinear reaction diffusion system

SS3:       Qualitative Behavior of Solutions to Evolutionary PDE's                 Organized by:       Irena Lasiecka, Grozdena Todorova and Mitsuhiro Nakao		Location: 110 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Mitsuhiro Nakao,  Kyushu University, Japan
	Energy decay to the Cauchy problem of nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations with a sublinear dissipative term
14:00 – 14:30	Gustavo Perla Menzala,  National Laboratory of Scientific Computation, Brazil
	Energy decay rates of magnetoelastic waves in a bounded (or unbounded) conductive medium
14:30 – 15:00	Karen Yagdjian, University of Texas-Pan American, USA
	The semilinear Klein-Gordon equation in de Sitter spacetime
15:00 – 15:30	Vilmos Komornik,  University de Strasbourg, France
	On the boundary stabilization of some hyperbolic systems

SS6:       Global or/and Blowup Solutions for Nonlinear Parabolic Equations and Their Applications                  Organized by:       George Chen and Isamu Fukuda		Location: 305 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Ryuichi Suzuki, Kokushikan University,  Japan
	Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions of a Semilinear Heat Equation with Localized Reaction
14:00 – 14:30	Akif Ibragimov, Texas Tech University, USA
	About a Pseudo Steady State Invariant as a Global Attractor for Class of the Non-Linear Flow
14:30 – 15:00	Christoph Walker, University of Hannover, Germany
	Global Well-Posedness of a Haptotaxis Model with Spatial Diffusion and Age Structure
15:00 – 15:30	Peter Polacik, University of Minnesota, USA
	Asymptotic Behavior of Global Solutions of a Supercritical Semilinear Heat Equation

SS7:       Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems and Applications                 Organized by:       Roberta Fabbri and Carmen Núñez		Location: 103 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Ana M Sanz, Universidad De Valladolid, Spain
	Omega-Limit Sets in Non-Autonomous Infinite Delay FDEs
14:00 – 14:30	Rafael Obaya, Universidad De Valladolid, Spain
	A Dynamical Theory for Monotone Neutral Functional Differential Equations
14:30 – 15:00	Minh  Nguyen, University of West Georgia, USA
	Asymptotic Behavior of Periodic evolution equations
15:00 – 15:30	Yi Wang, Univ. of Science Technology of China / Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
	Asymptotic Symmetry in Monotone sSew-Product Semiflows with Applications

SS13:     Asymptotic Behavior of  PDEs                 Organized by:  Alain Miranville  and  Maurizio Grasselli		Location: 212 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Vittorino Pata, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
	Two-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations with memory
14:00 – 14:30	Alexey Cheskidov, University of Chicago, USA
	Asymptotic behavior of evolutionary systems without uniqueness
14:30 – 15:00	Ciprian G Gal, University of Missouri-Colum, USA
	Uniform attractors for non-isothermal Cahn-Hilliard equations with dynamic boundary conditions
15:00 – 15:30	Antonio Segatti, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Germany
	On the Hyperbolic relaxation of the Cahn Hilliard equation in 3-D: wellposedness and long time behavior

SS16: Differential, Integral Equations And Their Applications                 Organized by:       Onur Alp Ilhan		Location: 321 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Goro Akagi, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
	Existence of solutions for some degenerate parabolic equation with initial data in L^r
14:00 – 14:30	Catherine Choquet, Universite Paul Cezanne, France
	Existence result for a binary-mixture transport model with different densities
14:30 – 15:00	Namjip Koo, Chungnam National University, Korea
	Stability of linear dynamic equations on time scales
15:00 – 15:30	John Burke, University of California at Berkeley, USA
	Homoclinic snaking in the forced complex Ginzburg Landau equation

SS18:     Topological Dynamics                 Organized by:       Jerzy Ombach and Piotr Oprocha		Location: 105 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Michal Misiurewicz , Indiana Univ Purdue Univ Indianapolis, USA
	Microdynamics
14:00 – 14:30	Francisco Balibrea, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
	On combinatorics of Newton maps on real polynomial equations
14:30 – 15:00	Judy A Kennedy, Lamar University , University of Delaware, USA
	Inverse limits and the problem of backward dynamics in economics
15:00 – 15:30	Ana Rodrigues, IUPUI, USA
	On the tip of the tongue

SS19:     Multiscale numerical methods for partial differential equations                 Organized by:       Yalchin Efendiev		Location: 209 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Seong Lee, Chevron, CA, USA
	Adaptive Multi-Scale Algorithm for Multi-Phase Transport in Porous Media
14:00 – 14:30	Yalchin Efendiev, Texas A&M University, USA
	Stochastic multiscale finite element methods and their applications to uncertainty quantification
14:30 – 15:00	Lijian Jiang, Texas A & M University, USA
	Global mixed multiscale finite element methods and their application in porous media
15:00 – 15:30	Rosangela F Sviercoski, LANL, USA
	Upscaling Flow through Block Permeability Inclusions by an Analytical Approach

SS21:     Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Applications                 Organized by:       Vladimir Varlamov and Yue Liu		Location: 319 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	John P Albert, University of Oklahoma, USA
	On the uniqueness of KdV 2-solitons
14:00 – 14:30	Y. Charles Li, University of Missouri, USA
	Chaos in Partial Differential Equations, Navier-Stokes Equations and Turbulence
14:30 – 15:00	Vladimir V Varlamov, University of Texas - Pan American, USA
	Riesz potentials of Airy functions and related properties of KdV-type equations
15:00 – 15:30	Samuli Siltanen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
	Novikov-Veselov equation and the inverse scattering transform

SS23:     Applied Analysis and Partial Differential Equations in Engineering and Sciences                 Organized by: Thomas Hagen and Janos Turi		Location: 113 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Jochen Denzler, University of Tennessee - Knoxville, USA
	Long time asymptotics for fast diffusion
14:00 – 14:30	Richard H Fabiano, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
	Stability and Approximation for Linear Systems
14:30 – 15:00	Fernanda Botelho, University of Memphis, USA
	Ordinary Differential Equations on Hilbert Spaces Motivated by Learning Models
15:00 – 15:30	James E Jamison, University of Memphis, USA
	Some non-linear Differential Equations in spaces of Compact Operators

SS24:     Mathematical Problems in Cancer Research                 Organized by:  Thierry Colin, Olivier Saut and  Jerry Bona		Location: 102 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	John Lowengrub, University of California - Irvine, USA
	Multiscale Models of Solid Tumor Growth and Angiogenesis
14:00 – 14:30	Olivier Saut, CNRS - INRIA MC2 – IMB, France
	Modeling tumor growth using a multifluid approach
14:30 – 15:00	Mostafa Adimy, INRIA-Bordeaux, France
	Modelling hematopoiesis with applications to Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
15:00 – 15:30	Hassan M Fathallah-Shaykh, Rush University Medical Center/University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
	Modeling and Local Filtering of Noise Embedded in Genome-Scale Microarray Datasets

SS28:     Fluids and Turbulence                 Organized by:       Animikh Biswas		Location: 223 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Alexey Cheskidov, University of Chicago, USA
	On the regularity of weak solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations in Besov spaces
14:00 – 14:30	Natasa Pavlovic, University of Texas at Austin, USA
	A regularity criterion for the dissipative quasi-geostrophic equations
14:30 – 15:00	Zoran Grujic, University of Virginia, USA
	The role of geometry/topology of the magnetic field in fusion plasmas MHD turbulence

SS34:     Wave propagation in nonlinear materials                 Organized by:       Qi Wang, Ziyad Muslimani, Ruhai Zhou, and Rudy Horne		Location: 107 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	M. Gregory Forest, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
	Nonlinear stress & strain wave communication in biological soft matter
14:00 – 14:30	Tianyu Zhang, Florida State University, USA
	Phase-Field Models for Biofilm Growth, Expansion, and Biofilm-Flow Interaction
14:30 – 15:00	Ruhai Zhou, Old Dominion University, USA
	Structures of nematic polymers in the flow
15:00 – 15:30	Qi Wang, Florida State University, USA
	Dynamics of sheared polymer-particulate nanocomposites

SS35:     Differential Equations of Mixed Type Arising in Engineering, Biology and Ecology                 Organized by:       Zhaosheng Feng, Qishao Lu,  David Y. Gao, and Qingguo Meng		Location: 204 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Y. Charles Li, University of Missouri, USA
	Spin Dynamics of a Long Nano-Magnet Driven by Electrical Currents
14:00 – 14:30	John W. Neuberger, University of North Texas, USA
	Nonlinear Semigroups and the Question of Boundary Conditions for the Tricomi Equation
14:30 – 15:00	Wei Feng, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA
	Mathematical Analysis for a Model Arising From Public Goods Games
15:00 – 15:30	Lei Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
	Approximation theorems for a class of fourth order elliptic equations

SS39:     Adaptive and Iterative Decomposition Methods for Differential Equations: Stability, Error Analysis and Applications                  Organized by:       J. E. Geiser and Q. Sheng		Location: 309 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Paul Clifford, University of Warwick, UK
	Dimensional Splitting Methods for Exotic Option Pricing
14:00 – 14:30	Alexander Ostermann, University of Innsbruck, Austria
	Splitting methods for nonautonomous evolution equations
14:30 – 15:00	Davut Tuncer, Baylor University, USA
	The left-definite spectral analysis of the fourth-order Legendre type differential equations
15:00 – 15:30	Qin Sheng, Baylor University, USA
	Modified split shooting procedures for solving optical wave quenching-collapsing problems

SS40:     Dynamical Systems and Applications                 Organized by:       Carmen Chicone and Yuri Latushkin		Location: 124 LS
13:30 – 14:00	Walter A Strauss, Brown University, USA
	Scattering of fourth-order nonlinear waves
14:00 – 14:30	Discussion
14:30 – 15:00	Zhiwu Lin, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
	Stability problems in fluid and plasmas
15:00 – 15:30	Vera Mikyoung Hur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
	Well-posedness of the water-wave problem with surface tension: a new approach

SS41:     Dynamical Systems and Spectral Theory                   Organized by:       David Damanik		Location: 229 PKH
14:00 – 14:30	Peter R Stollmann, Chemnitz University of Technology, Ge