May 20, Tuesday A.M. (1) Sessions

 

SS1:       Oscillations and Synchronization in Neuronal Networks 

                 Organized by:  Qishao Lu,  Georgi Medvedev and Jonathan Rubin 

Location:

321 PKH

8:00 – 8:30

Mingzhou Ding, University of Florida, USA

Neuronal Mechanisms of Synchronized 10 Hz Oscillations in Visual Cortices

8:30 – 9:00

Maciej Krupa, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands 

Mixed Mode Oscillations in Three Time Scale Systems

9:00 – 9:30

Igor Belykh, Georgia State University, USA

Rhythmogenesis in bursting motifs

9:30 – 10:00

Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston, USA

Dynamical Properties of a Simple Feed Forward Network 

 

SS3:       Qualitative Behavior of Solutions to Evolutionary PDE's 

                Organized by:       Irena Lasiecka, Grozdena Todorova and Mitsuhiro Nakao

Location:

110 PKH

8:00 – 8:30

Henry C Simpson, University of Tennessee, USA

Buckling Instabilities and Global Continuation in Nonlinear Elasticity

8:30 – 9:00

Barbara Kaltenbacher,  University of Stuttgart, Germany

Some well-posedness results in nonlinear acoustics

9:00 – 9:30

Petronela Radu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Decay Rates for Damped Wave Equations with Variable Coefficients

9:30 – 10:00

Mohammad A Rammaha,  University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

The influence of damping and source terms on solutions of nonlinear wave equations

 

SS8:       Nonstandard PDE and PDE Control 

                Organized by:       D. L. Russell and R. Triggiani   

Location:

308 PKH

8:00 – 8:30

Goong Chen, Texas A&M University, USA

D.L. Russell's Controllability Via Stabilizeability Principle and the Associated Entropy Change

8:30 – 9:00

Walter Littman, University of Minnesota, USA

The Balayage Method : Boundary Control of a Thermo-Elastic Plate

9:00 – 9:30

Zhonghai Ding, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA

Mathematical Analysis of the Dimensional Scaling Method in Quantum Mechanics

9:30 – 10:00

Paola Loreti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Semi-Discrete Ingham Type Inequalities

 

SS9:       Variational Inequalities, Theory, Methods and Applications in the Engineering Sciences  

                Organized by:       Daniel Goeleven and Khalid Addi 

Location:

103 PKH

8:00 – 8:30

Kenneth L Kuttler, Brigham Young University, USA

An Elastic Viscoplastic Contact Problem

8:30 – 9:00

George Isac, Royal Military College of Canada

Scalarly Compactness, (S)+ -Type Conditions, Variational Inequalities and Complementarity Problems in Banach Spaces

9:00 – 9:30

Michel H Geoffroy, University of Antilles and Guyana, Guadeloupe

Some Methods for Solving Metrically Regular Inclusions

9:30 – 10:00

Dumitru Motreanu, University of Perpignan, France

Positive and Multiple Solutions for Hemivariational Inequalities

 

SS11:     Hamiltonian systems and applications

                Organized by:       Amadeu Delshams, Marian Gidea and Rafael de la Llave

Location:

319 PKH

8:00 – 8:30

Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Instabilities in higher dimensional Hamiltonian systems

8:30 – 9:00

Gemma Huguet, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya  and University of Texas at Austin, USA

Existence of Arnold diffusion in a-priori unstable Hamiltonian systems. An example.

9:00 – 9:30

Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University, USA

Perturbations of geodesic flows producing unbounded growth of energy

9:30 – 10:00

Clark Robinson, Northwestern University, USA

Shadowing orbits for transition chains of invariant tori

 

SS12:     Complex and Chaotic Dynamics

                Organized by:       Miguel A. F. Sanjuan  and Jose M. Amigo

Location:

105 PKH

8:00 – 8:30

Xavier J Carton, University of Western Brittany, France

Transition to chaos in a two-vortex system under oscillatory strain and rotation

8:30 – 9:00

Jesús M Seoane, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

Phase control of escapes in open dynamical systems

9:00 – 9:30

Juan L.G. Guirao, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain

Positive topological entropy of Coupled Map Lattice

9:30 – 10:00

Samuel Zambrano,  Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain.

Topological detection of determinism in time series

 

SS15:     Topological Methods for Boundary Value Problems

                Organized by:  Kunquan Lan and John R. Graef

Location:

102 PKH

8:00 – 8:30

Haiyan Wang, Arizona State University,  USA

A periodic boundary value problem

8:30 – 9:00

Eric R Kaufmann, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

Positive solutions of a nonlinear fractional order boundary value

9:00 – 9:30

Feliz M Minhós, University of Évora, Portugal

On the solvability of some beam equations with functional boundary conditions

9:30 – 10:00

Joseph Paullet, Penn State Erie, USA

Existence and Multiplicity of Solutions for Stagnation Point Flow Toward a Stretching Sheet

 

SS17:     Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Related Topics

                Organized by:  Nobuyuki Kenmochi, Toyohiko Aiki and Mitsuharu Otani

Location:

209 PKH

9:00 – 9:30

Yusuke Murase, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University, Japan

Elliptic Quasi-Variational Inequalities

9:30 – 10:00

Noriaki Yamazaki, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

Approximating problems of the singular diffusion equations with inhomogeneous terms

 

SS20:     Partial Differential Equations from Fluid Mechanics and Mathematical Physics

                Organized by:       Xiaoming Wang, Jiahong Wu and Ning Ju

Location:

212 PKH

8:00 – 8:30

Michael S Jolly, Indiana University, USA

Some specific mathematical constraints on 2-D turbulence

 

8:30 – 9:00

Nusret Balci, Indiana University, USA

Exploring 2-D turbulence in the 3-D Rayleigh-Benard system

9:00 – 9:30

Theodore Tachim Medjo, Florida International University, USA

On strong solutions of the multi-layer quasi-geostrophic equations of the ocean

9:30 – 10:00

Hongqiu Chen, University of Memphis, USA

Cnoidal wave solutions to Boussinesq systems

 

SS25:     Long Time Behavior of Hamiltonian and Dissipative Systems

                Organized by:       Atanas Stefanov and Milena Stanislavova

Location:

223 PKH

8:30 – 9:00

Yuncheng You, University of South Florida, USA

Global Dynamics of 3D Gray-Scott Equations

9:00 – 9:30

Roman Shvydkoy, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

On the energy of singular inviscid flows

9:30 – 10:00

Dmitry Pelinovsky, McMaster University, Canada

Justification of tight-binding approximation for space-periodic problems

 

SS26:     Qualitative Analysis of Parabolic Equations

                Organized by:       Gieri Simonett and Patrick Guidotti

Location:

107 PKH

8:00 – 8:30

Arnd Scheel, University of Minnesota, USA

Diffusive synchronization of spatially extended oscillations

8:30 – 9:00

Huiqiang Jiang, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Analysis of a reaction-diffusion system: Dynamics and steady states 

9:00 – 9:30

Christoph Walker, University of Hannover, Germany

An age and spatially structured population model for Proteus mirabilis swarm-colony development

 

SS27:     Sign-changing Solutions for Nonlinear Elliptic Problems

                Organized by:       Dumitru Motreanu

Location:

109 PKH

8:00 – 8:30

Zhitao Zhang, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Sign-changing and multiple solutions of Kirchhoff type problems

8:30 – 9:00

Shibo Liu, Xiamen University, China

Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction, critical groups and multiple solutions of elliptic resonant problems

9:00 – 9:30

Anna Maria Candela, University di Bari, Italy

Some abstract existence theorems and applications to p-Laplacian type problems

9:30 – 10:00

Addolorata Salvatore, University di Bari, Italy

Sign-changing solutions for an asymptotically linear Schrődinger equation

 

SS29:     Nonlocal Equations and Diffusion Problems

                Organized by:       Arnaud Rougirel

Location:

220 PKH

8:00 – 8:30

Abdelkader Boucherif, Brown University, USA

USA Nonlocal Problems for Parabolic Inclusions

8:30 – 9:00

Vladimir V Varlamov, University of Texas-Pan American, USA

Nonlinear heat equation with a fractional Laplacian in a ball

9:00 – 9:30

Pascal A Azerad, Universite Montpellier, France

A non monotone nonlocal PDE for dune morphodynamics

 

9:30 – 10:00

Eduardo Cuesta, University of Valladolid, Spain

Runge-Kutta convolution quadrature methods for well-posed equations with memory

 

SS33:     Thermomechanics and Phase Change

                Organized by:       Alain Miranville and Ulisse Stefanelli 

Location:

122 LS

8:00 – 8:30

Irena Pawlow, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences and Military University of Technology, Poland

Global existence for a quasilinear system in thermoviscoelasticity with strain gradient energy

8:30 – 9:00

Roderick Melnik, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

Phase Transformations in Nanostructures: Models and Applications

9:00 – 9:30

Toyohiko Aiki, Gifu University, Japan

Free boundary problems for a valve made of shape memory alloys

9:30 – 10:00

Elena Bonetti, University of Pavia, Italy

Investigating adhesive contact by phase transitions

 

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

8:00 – 8:30

Mufid A Abudiab, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA

A Reaction-Diffusion Model of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) Infection

8:30 – 9:00

Richard P Arena, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA

Modeling Predator-Prey Interactions

 

SS36:     Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic PDEs with Applications

                Organized by:       Junping Shi

Location:

305 PKH

8:00 – 8:30

Yi Li, University of Iowa, USA

Singular Solutions of the Vlasov-Poisson System

8:30 – 9:00

Ratnasingham Shivaji, Mississippi State University, USA

n x n Laplacian Systems with Combined Nonlinear Effects

9:00 – 9:30

Xiaofeng Ren, George Washington University, USA

Ideal and Defective Solutions to a Free Boundary Problem from Block Copolymer Morpholog

9:30 – 10:00

Jann-Long Chern, Central University, Taiwan

Structure of the sets of regular and singular radial solutions for a semilinear elliptic equation

 

SS42:     Delay Differential Equations 

                Organized by:       Tibor Krisztin 

Location:

113 PKH

8:00 – 8:30

Eduardo Liz, Universidad de Vigo, Spain

On the interplay between delay differential equations and one-dimensional maps

8:30 – 9:00

Gergely Rőst, University of Szeged, Hungary

Global dynamics for non-monotone delayed feedback

9:00 – 9:30

Janos Turi, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Parameter Identification in a Respiratory Control System Model

9:30 – 10:00

Nicola Guglielmi,  University dell'Aquila, Italy

A regularization for discontinuous differential equations with application to state-dependent delay differential equations

 

 

SS43:     Dynamical systems in Biology and Medicine

                 Organized by:  Yang Kuang, Bingtuan Li, and Jiaxu Li 

Location:

309 PKH

8:00 – 8:30

Heinz M Schaettler, Washington University, USA

Delivery of Growth Factors to Wounds

8:30 – 9:00

Haiyan Wang, Arizona State University, USA

A mathematical model for calcium regulation in yeast cells

9:00 – 9:30

Ami E Radunskaya, Pomona College, USA

Predicting the Release Kinetics of Matrix Tablets

9:30 – 10:00

Horst R Thieme, Arizona State University, USA

Species decline and extinction: synergy of infectious disease and Allee effect?

 

SS46:     Localized Behavior of Elliptic Equations and Systems

                Organized by:       Jun-cheng Wei, Michael J. Ward  

Location:

229 PKH

8:00 – 8:30

Matthias Winte, Brunel University, England

Spikes for the Gierer-Meinhardt system with Variable Coefficients

8:30 – 9:00

Veronica Felli,  Universitàdi Milano Bicocca, Italy

On Schrődinger equations with multisingular inverse-square anisotropic potentials

 

SS49:     Recent developments of analytic and algebraic methods in integrable systems and applications 

                Organized by:  Tuncay Aktosun, Sarbarish Chakravarty, and Kenichi Maruno  

Location:

104 PKH

8:00 – 8:30

Jonathan Nimmo, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Darboux transformations for noncommutative systems.

8:30 – 9:00

Cornelia Schiebold, Mid Sweden University, Sweden

Noncommutative Equations and Solutions of Integrable Systems

9:00 – 9:30

Wen Xiu Ma,  University of South Florida, USA

Wronskian and Casoratian determinant solutions to soliton equations

9:30 – 10:00

Mehmet A Akinlar, UT, Arlington, USA

Exact solutions to the sine-Gordon equation

 

CS9:       PDEs and Applications 

                Chair: Ian Martines, University of Texas at Arlington, USA        

Location:

424 LS

8:00 – 8:20

Richard Haberman, Southern Methodist University, USA

Chaotic Scattering Via the Separatrix Map in Solitary Wave Interactions

8:20 – 8:40

Arjun Beri, University of Houston, USA

Estimation of Effective System From Discretely Sampled Data

8:40 – 9:00

John B Gonzalez, Northeastern University, USA

Unbounded Solutions of the Modified Korteweg-De Vries Equation

9:00 – 9:20

Kawin Nimsaila, University of Houston, USA

Dimensionality Reduction Using Markov Chain Modeling

9:20 – 9:40

Muniraja Gopal, Bangalore University, India

Application of Minkowski Space Geometry in the Study of Some Nonlinear Equations

9:40 – 10:00

Inkyung Ahn, Korea University, Korea

Patterns of Two Prey-One Predator Models with Ratio-Dependent Predator Influence

 

 

Coffee Break

 10:00 – 10:30

Location:

Palo Duro Lounge, E.H. Hereford University Center  (UC, on the campus map)

 

 

May 20, Monday A.M. (2) Sessions

 

Plenary Lectures 6-7

                Chair: Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston, USA

Location:

Bluebonnet Ballroom, UC

10:30 – 11:15

Lassi Paivarinta, University of Helsinki, Finland

Invisibility challenges inverse problems

 

 

Lunch Break