Workshop on Theory and Applications of Fluid Mechanics

                                                        ~ In Conjunction with the Taft Research Seminar of 2006-2007~  

                                                           

                                                                                     Schedule

                                                          

                                                                                      December 9, 2006 (Saturday)

 8:30 am  -- 9:00 am Refreshment
 9:00 am  -- 9:45 am Hongqiu Chen:      Well-posedness of regularize Benjamin-Ono type equations
 9:50 am  -- 10:35 am Xuan Hien Nguyen: Construction of complete embedded self-similar surfaces under mean curvature flow
10:40 am -- 10:50 am Break
10:50 am -- 11: 35 am Jie Shen:   Modeling and simulation of multiphase incompressible flows using an energetic variational phase field model
11:40 am -- 12: 25 am Jiahong Wu:  Nonlinear partial differential equations with fractional diffusion
12:30 am -- 2:30 pm  Lunch
   
   
2:30 pm -- 3:15 pm Jerry L. Bona:  The BBM Equation on Trees
3:20 pm -- 4:05 pm Min Chen:  Symmetric and asymmetric periodic wave patterns of two-dimensional Boussinesq systems
4:10 pm -- 4:25 pm Break
4:25 pm -- 5:10 pm Anthony Leung: Stable invariant  manifolds for coupled Navier-Stokes and wave systems
   
5:15 pm -- 6:00 pm Chun-Hsiung Hsia:  The attractor bifurcation theory and its applications to convection problems
   
7:00 pm -- 9:30 pm Dinner party  (Taft House)
   

                                                                                            December 10, 2006 (Sunday)

8:30 am -- 9:00 am Refreshment
9:00 am -- 9:45 am Jeongwham Choi:    Free surface waves over an obstruction - Forced KdV Equation
9:50 am -- 10:35 am Vladimir Varlamov:  Korteweg-de Vries and Ostrovsky equations, similarity and differences
10:40am -- 11:25 am Nghiem V. Nguyen:   Ground state solutions of a NLS-KdV system
11:30 am --- 12:15 pm Shuming Sun:   Nonlinear Schrodinger equation on a bounded domain

*All  lectures will be held  at  Braunstein 312.   Refreshments are served in the Faculty & Graduate Student Lounge, Room 840 Old Chemistry Bldg.