Conference on

"Progress in Partial Differential Equations"

May 23 - 25, 2002
Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

Scientific Advisory Committee:
John R. Cannon, University of Central Florida
William Rundell, Texas A&M University
Ralph Showalter, University of Texas at Austin
Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington
Hong-Ming Yin, Washington State University

Local Organizers:
Robert Dillon, Washington State University
Alexander Khapalov, Washington State University
V.S. "Mano" Manoranjan (Co-Chair), Washington State University
Hong-Ming Yin (Co-Chair), Washington State University

Conference Schedule


All lectures will be held in Room 518 (70) of SCUE (Smith Center for Undergraduate Education)

Thursday - May 23

8:00 - 8:30: Registration and Check-in (Room 512 CUE)
8:30 - 8:40: Welcome by Professor Alan Genz, Chair, Department of Mathematics and Professor V.S. Manoranjan, Associate Dean, College of Sciences
Chair: Professor A. Genz
8:40 - 9:30: Ralph Showalter (University of Texas at Austin)
Diffusion in Deforming Porous Media
9:30 - 10:20: Gary Lieberman (Iowa State University)
Non-local Problems for Quasilinear Parabolic Differential Equations
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break
Chair: Professor Alexander Khapalov
10:40 - 11:25: Thomas Seidman (University of Maryland at Baltimore County)
Optimal Control of a Nonlinearly Viscoelastic Rod, II
11:30 - 12:10: Zhilin Li (University of North Carolina State University)
Numberical Methods for Nonlinear Interface Problems and Applications
12:10 - 1:30 Lunch Break (Compton Union Building, Room 212)
Chair: Professor John R. Cannon
1:30 - 2:20: Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington)
Inverse Boundary Problems via Local Measurements
2:30 - 3:00: Kumud S. Altmayer (University of Wisconsin at Whitewater)
The Effect of Off-Center Displacement on Localized Transformer with Off-Center Winding
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
Chair: Professor John Chadam
3:30 - 4:00: Karthik Ramaseshan (University of Washington)
Microlocal Analysis of the 3-D Doppler Transform
4:00 - 4:30: Shuqing Ma (University of Alberta, Canada)
Time Periodic Solutions of a Thermistor Problem
4:30 - 5:00: Eduardo Chappa (University of Washington)
On the Characterization of the Kernel of the Geodesic X-Ray Transform

7:30 - 8:30: Department Reception in Neill Hall 216, WSU Campus

Friday - May 24: In honor of Professor John Cannon on the occasion of his 65th birthday

Chair: Professor Hong-Ming Yin

8:30 - 9:20: Jim Douglas (Purdue University)
Improved Time Discretization in Alternating-Direction and Fractional-Step Methods
9:30 - 10:20: Emmanuele DiBenedetto (University of Vanderbilt)
Homogenization in Visual Transduction
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break
Chair: Professor V.S. Manoranjan
10:40 - 11:25: William Rundell (Texas A&M University)
Inverse Obstacle Problems for Elliptic and Parabolic Equations
11:30 - 12:15 Yanping Lin (University of Alberta, Canada)
Finite Volume Element Methods for Elliptic Equations
12:15 - 1:30 Lunch Break (CUB 212)
Chair: Professor William Rundell
1:30 - 2:20: Paul DuChateau (Colorado State University)
Identification of Spatially Variable Coefficients
2:30 - 3:20: David Wollkind (Washington State University)
Partial Differential Equation Modeling of Materials Science Hexagonal Pattern Formation
3:20 - 3:40 Coffee Break
3:40 - 4:20: Hong-Ming Yin (Washington State University)
Recent Results about Maxwell's Equations and Applications
6:00 - 8:30: Banquet at Top of China Buffet (E. 215 Main Street, Pullman - second floor

Saturday - May 25

Chair: Professor Ralph Showalter

8:30 - 9:20: Robert Dillon (Washington State University)
Modeling Ciliary and Flagellar Motion Using the Immersed Boundary Method
9:20 - 10:10: Takashi Suzuki (Osaka University)
Free Energy and Self-Interacting Particles
10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break (CUB 212)
Chair: Professor Robert Dillon
10:30 - 11:00: Jodi Mead (Boise State University)
An Inverse Problem in Physical Oceanography for Lagrangian Data
11:00 - 11:30: Emily Tian (Wright State University)
Perturbation Analysis of the Homoclinic Structure of Zakharov Equations
11:30 - 12:00: Long Lee (University of Washington)
An Immerse Interface Method for Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch, CUB Room 212
Chair: Professor Thomas Seidman
2:00 - 2:50: Sergei Avdonin (University of Alaska)
Dynamical Inverse Problem for the Sch\"odinger Equation
3:00 - 3:50: John Chadam (University of Pittsburgh)
The Early Exercise of Boundary for American Put Options: Numerical and Analytical Approximations