IWPDE03 - Scientific Program
 
 
 
 
 

                                  Thursday, June 26

8:45 - 9:35        Registration    9:35 - 10:10        Opening Session  10:10 - 10:45        Recollection of the work of H.B. da Veiga by J.P. Dias, A. Valli and G.P.Galdi  Coffee Break

11:05 - 11:40        O. Ladyzhenskaya - Some conditional results on the global unique solvability for 3D-Navier-Stokes equations  11:40 - 12:15        J. Bemelmans - Equilibrium figures of rotating fluid bodies and the development of bifurcation theory 12:15 - 12:35        A. Arkhipova - New a priori estimates for strong nondiagonal elliptic systems  Lunch

14:30 - 15:05        T. Nishida - Pattern formation of heat conduction problems 15:05 - 15:40        A. Robertson - On the use of Cosserat models for modelling flow in arteries 15:40 - 16:15        P. Oliveira - On the use of abstract numerical properties to change the character of reacting flows

Coffee Break

16:35 - 17:10          C. Simader - Equivalence of the method of weak solutions, Dirichlet´s principle and Perrons´s method                        for the solution of the Dirichlet problem for harmonic functions  17:10 - 17:45        P. Secchi - The stability of compressible vortex sheets in two space dimensions

                                  Friday, June 27
 

9:00 - 9:35        H. Brézis - 3-d Ginzburg-Landau models and minimal connections   9:35 - 10:10        J.P. Dias - Phase transitions and discontinuous scalar conservation laws 10:10 - 10:45        P. Marcati - Diffusive relaxation limits for multi-d semilinear hyperbolic systems and Navier-Stokes equation  Coffee Break

11:05 - 11:40        I. Fonseca - Higher order variational problems   11:40 - 12:15        S. Miyatake - The dyagonalized system of nonlinear hyperbolic equations of first order   12:15 - 12:35        P. Trebeschi - On the slightly compressible MHD system in the half-plane  Lunch

14:30 - 15:05        A. Quarteroni - When mathematics go sailing (to the America´s Cup) 15:05 - 15:40        A. Valli - Mixed finite element approximation of the time-harmonic eddy-current problem  15:40 - 16:15        L. Berselli - On Taylo-Green vortices

Coffee Break

16:35 - 17:10        J. Heywood - A curious phenomenon in a model problem, suggestive of the hydrodynamic inertial range and smallest scale of motion  17:10 - 17:45        R. Rannacher - Numerical simulation of the free fall of a rigid body in an incompressible viscous fluid  17:45 - 18:05        J.A. Ferreira - Superconvergence of piecewise linear semi-discretizations for parabolic problems with nonuniform triangulations

                                  Saturday, June 28

9:00 - 9:35        L. Nirenberg - On the distance function to the boundary and the singular set of solutions of some Hamilton-Jacobi equations    9:35 - 10:10        L. Tartar - Beyond partial differential equations 10:10 - 10:45        R. Turner - Traveling waves in neural models Coffee Break

11:05 - 11:40        H. Frid - Asymptotic stability of Riemann solutions of multi-D conservation laws   11:40 - 12:15        J.F. Rodrigues - On stationary thermo-rheological viscous flows  12:15 - 12:50        D. Kinderlehrer - Remarks about diffusion mediated transport  12:50        Closing Address

 
 

              IWPDE03 - Social Program
 

Welcome dinner (at Estalagem Quintinha de S. João and Estalagem Jardins do Lago), Wednesday, June 25, starting at 8:30 pm

Conference dinner, Friday, June 27, at 8:30 pm

Excursion around the island, Saturday, June 28, in the afternoon