Conference on:

Progress in Partial Differential Equations and Applications

Conference Dates and Place:

May 23- May 25, 2002

Department of Mathematics
Washington State University
Neill Hall
Pullman, Washington 99164-3113
Phone: 509-335-8518


Conference Schedule

Registration Information

May 24 will be in honor of John R. Cannon on occasion of his 65th birthday and his research achievement. May 25 will be the Pacific Northwest PDE seminar series.

Focus areas:
The conference will focus on recent progress in partial differential equations and applications. Particularly, topics include: (1) inverse, ill-posed and control problems in PDEs (2) free boundary problems and industrial applications. (3) Numerical analysis of PDEs.


Invited Speakers (tentatively confirmed)

S. Avdonin (University of Alaska), J.M. Chadam (Univ. of Pittsburgh), X. Chen (Univ. of Pittsburgh), E. DiBenedetto (Univ. of Vanderbilt), J. Douglas (Univ. of Purdue), P. DuChateau (Colorado State Univ.), N. Ghoussoub (Univ. of British Columbia), Gary Lieberman (Iowa State Univ.), Y. Lin (Univ. of Alberta), Zhilin Li, (North Carolina State Univ.), T. Seidman (Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore), R. Showalter (Univ. of Texas at Austin), W. Rundell (Texas A&M Univ.), T. Suzuki (Osaka Univ.), D. Wollkind (Washington State Univ.), G. Uhlmann (Univ. of Washington).


Contributed Sessions:
Participants are cordially invited to present short talks at the conference.

Local Organizers:

Financial Aid:
Partial support is possible for graduate students and junior faculty. Please go to the registration information page to print an application form.


Conference Proceedings:
The organizers plan to publish refereed papers in conference proceeding.


Accommodation and Travel Information:
Information on accommodations and travel is given below.


The Conference is sponsored by:

  1. Department of Mathematics and the College of Sciences, Washington State University.

  2. National Sciences Foundation.


Accommodations and Travel Information

We have reserved a block of rooms at the Holiday Inn Express and Qualty Inn at discount rates. Both hotels provide a continental breakfast. They are less than a half-mile away from the Department of Mathematics.


Motel Information

Holiday Inn Express
SE 1190 Bishop Boulevard
Pullman, WA 99163
Phone: 509-334-4437
Fax: 509-334-4447

Rate: $55/$65 (single/double) plus tax.

Quality Inn
1400 SE Bishop Boulevard
Pullman, WA 99163
Phone: 509-332-0500
Fax: 509-334-4271

Rate: $49.99/$59.99 (single/double)

Travel Information

Pullman-Moscow has a small airport. The Spokane international airport is 70 miles away from Pullman. There is a bus service from the Spokane airport to the hotels. The bus company is called Link. Please go to Link to view the schedule.