Atelier sur les singularités en EDP et
dans le calcul des variations
Workshop on Singularities in PDE
and the Calculus of Variations

17-21 juillet / July 17-21, 2006

Programme

LUNDI 17 juillet / MONDAY, July 17, 2006
8:30 - 9:00
Inscription / Registration (Room 5345)
Café croissants / coffee & croissants (Salle / Room 6245)
9:00 - 09:15
Introduction
09:15 - 10:00
10:10 - 10:55
Gabriella Tarantello (University of Roma Tor Vergata )
A uniqueness property for selfdual Cern-Simons vortices of topological type
10:55 - 11:15
Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 6245)
11:15 - 12:00
Daniel Spirn (University of Minnesota)
 Gamma limit of the Chern-Simons-Higgs energy
12:00 - 14:00
Pause du dîner / Lunch break
14:00 - 14:45
Robert Jerrard (University of Toronto)
 Some remarks about Monge-Ampere functions
14:55 - 15:40
Vincent Millot (Carnegie Mellon University)
 Relaxed energies for H^{1/2}-maps with values into the circle
15:40 - 16:15
Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 6245)
16:15 - 17:00
Manuel Del Pino (Universidad de Chile)
Curve concentration in some singular perturbation problems
17:15
Réception de bienvenue / Welcoming Reception (Salle / Room 6245)

MARDI 18 juillet / TUESDAY, July 18, 2006
08:30 - 09:15
Café croissants / Coffee & Croissants ( Salle / Room 6245)
9:00 - 10:10
10:10 - 10:55
Carlos J. Garcia-Cervera (UC Santa Barbara)
Recent advances in orbital-free density functional theory
10:55 - 11:15Pause café / Coffee break ( Salle / Room 6245)
11:15 - 12:00
12:00 - 14:00
Pause du dîner / Lunch break
14:00 - 14:45
Rustum Choksi (Simon Fraser University)
 On a nonlocal isoperimetric problem
14:55 - 15:40
Chun Liu (Penn State University)
 Viscoelastic materials
15:40 - 16:15
16:15 - 17:00

MERCREDI 19 juillet / WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2006
08:30 - 09:15
Café croissants / Coffee & Croissants ( Salle / Room 6245)
09:15 - 10:00
10:10 - 10:55
Shuichi Jimbo (Hokkaido University)
 Ginzburg-Landau equation in thin domains
10:55 - 11:15
Pause café / Coffee break ( Salle / Room 6245)
11:15 - 12:00
Maria G. Reznikoff (Princeton University)
 Sharp interface limits in the study of rare events
12:10 - 12:55
Xiaofeng Ren (Utah State University)
An Allen-Cahn type problem with curvature modification
Après-midi libre / free afternoon

JEUDI 20 juillet / THURSDAY, July 20, 2006
08:30 - 09:00
Café croissants / Coffee & Croissants ( Salle / Room 6245)
09:15 - 10:00
Fabrice Bethuel (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
 Dynamics of multiple degree Ginzburg-Landau vortices
10:10 - 10:55
Stephen Gustafson (University of British Columbia)
Landau-Lifshitz (Schroedinger map) dynamics near harmonic maps
10:55 - 11:15
Pause café / Coffee break (Salle / Room 6245)
11:15 - 12:00
Daniel Phillips (Purdue University)
 Ginzburg Landau equations with two order parameters
13:00 - 14:00
Pause du dîner / Lunch break
14:00 - 14:45
14:55 - 15:40
Amandine Aftalion (Université Paris 6)
 Fast rotating bose einstein condensates
15:40 - 16:15
16:15 - 17:00
Alberto Montero Zarate (University of Toronto)
A Gamma convergence result for the Gross Pitaevskiienergy in R^3

VENDREDI 21 juillet / FRIDAY, July 21, 2006
08:30 - 09:00
Café croissants / Coffee & Croissants ( Salle / Room 6245)
09:15 - 10:00
10:10 - 10:55
10:55 - 11:15
Pause café / Coffee break (Salle / Room 6245)
11:15 - 12:00
Radu Ignat (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Compactness of the Néel wall
12:10 - 12:55