Fall 2020

September 1, 2020

3pm UK time

Carlos Kenig (University of Chicago)

Asymptotic simplification for solutions of the energy critical nonlinear wave equation

abstract, video

4pm UK time

Alexandru Ionescu (Princeton University)

On the nonlinear stability of shear flows and vortices

abstract, video

September 8, 2020

3pm UK time

Alberto Bressan (Pennsylvania State University)

Dynamic blocking problems for a model of fire confinement

abstract, video

4pm UK time

Irene M. Gamba (University of Texas at Austin)

Boltzmann type equations in a general framework: from the classical elastic flow, to gas mixtures, polyatomic gases, and more

abstract, video

September 15, 2020

3pm UK time

John Ball (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)

Axisymmetry of critical points of the Onsager functional for liquid crystals

abstract

4pm UK time

Gui-Qiang G. Chen (University of Oxford)

On Nonlinear PDEs of Mixed Elliptic-Hyperbolic Type: Analysis and Connections

abstract, video

September 22, 2020

3pm UK time

Camillo De Lellis (Institute for Advanced Study)

Flows of vector fields: classical and modern

abstract, video

4pm UK time

Hatem Zaag (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)

A stylized pyramid-shaped blow-up set for the 2d semilinear wave equation

abstract, video

September 29, 2020

3pm UK time

Walter Strauss (Brown University)

Modulational instability of Stokes waves

abstract, video

4pm UK time

Jacob Bedrossian (University of Maryland)

Quantitative hypoelliptic regularity and the estimation of Lyapunov exponents and other long-time dynamical properties of stochastic differential equations

abstract, video

October 6, 2020

3pm UK time

Henri Berestycki (EHESS)

Reaction-diffusion systems in epidemiology

abstract

4pm UK time

Pavol Quittner (Comenius University)

An optimal Liouville-type theorem for entire solutions of a semilinear heat equation

abstract, video

October 13, 2020

3pm UK time

Felix Otto (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics)

A variational approach to the regularity theory for optimal transportation

abstract, video

4pm UK time

Lia Bronsard (McMaster University)

Ring defect in Liquid Crystal

abstract, video

October 20, 2020

3pm UK time

Sylvia Serfaty (Courant Institute)

Mean-Field limits for Coulomb-type dynamics

abstract, video

4pm UK time

Vlad Vicol (Courant Institute)

Shock formation and vorticity creation for 3D compressible Euler

abstract

October 27, 2020

3pm UK time

Alfonso Sorrentino (University of Rome Tor Vergata)

The Hamilton–Jacobi equation on networks: from weak KAM and Aubry–Mather theories to homogenization

abstract, video

4pm UK time

Irene Fonseca (Carnegie Mellon University)

Geometric Flows and Phase Transitions in Heterogeneous Media

abstract

November 3, 2020

3pm UK time

Enrico Valdinoci (University of Western Australia)

The Bernstein technique for integrodifferential equations

abstract, video

4pm UK time

John King (University of Nottingham)

Some failures of self-similarity in the porous-medium equation

abstract

November 10, 2020

3pm UK time

Wilhelm Schlag (Yale University)

Semiclassical spectral theory and nonlinear waves

abstract, video

4pm UK time

Alexander Logunov (Princeton University)

Nodal sets, Quasiconformal mappings and how to apply them to Landis’ conjecture

abstract

November 17, 2020

3pm UK time

Michal Kowalczyk (Universidad de Chile)

A sufficient condition for asymptotic stability of kinks in general (1+1)-scalar field models

abstract

4pm UK time

Robert L. Jerrard (University of Toronto)

Solutions of the Ginzburg–Landau equatons with vorticity concentrating near a nondegenerate geodesic

abstract, video

November 24, 2020

3pm UK time

Juan Dávila (University of Bath)

Leapfrogging vortex rings and other solutions with concentrated vorticity for the Euler equations

abstract, video

4pm UK time

Yannick Sire (Johns Hopkins University)

Minimizers for the thin one-phase problem

abstract, video

December 1, 2020

3pm UK time

Alexander Mielke (WIAS Berlin)

Global existence for finite-strain viscoelasticity with temperature coupling

abstract

4pm UK time

Anna Mazzucato (Penn State University)

Optimal mixing in incompressible flows

abstract

December 8, 2020

3pm UK time

Luis Vega (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics)

Riemann’s non-differentiable function and the binormal curvature flow

abstract, video

4pm UK time

Tatiana Toro (University of Washington)

Perturbing elliptic operators

abstract, video

December 15, 2020

3pm UK time

Luis A. Caffarelli (University of Texas at Austin)

A fully nonlinear equation of Grad Plasma type

abstract

4pm UK time

Robert Pego (Carnegie Mellon University)

Dynamics and oscillations in models of coagulation and fragmentation

abstract, video