Institute for Mathematics and its Applications

University of Minnesota

114 Lind Hall

207 Church Street S.E.

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

Web: http://www.ima.umn.edu | Email: ima-staff@ima.umn.edu | Telephone: (612) 624-6066 | Fax: (612) 626-7370
Schedules available at http://www.ima.umn.edu/happening

Friday, July 4, 2008

All Day Independence Day. The IMA is closed.


Monday, July 14, 2008

8:15a-9:00a Registration and coffee

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9:00a-9:15a Fadil Santosa, University of Minnesota
Welcome to the IMA

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9:15a-9:45a L. Mahadevan, Harvard University
Introductory talk

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9:50a-10:40a Stephen Childress, New York University
Some remarks on vorticity growth in Euler flows

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10:40a-11:10a Coffee

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11:10a-12:00p Jens Eggers, University of Bristol
A catalogue of singularities

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12:00p-12:30p Discussion

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12:30p-2:00p Lunch

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2:00p-2:10p Michael Siegel, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Calculation of complex singular solutions to the 3D incompressible Euler equations

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2:15p-2:25p Daniel D. Joseph, University of Minnesota
Viscous potential flow analysis of radial fingering in a Hele-Shaw cell

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2:30p-2:40p Thomas Peter Witelski, University of Oxford
Some open questions on similarity solutions for fluid film rupture

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2:45p-2:55p John Lister, University of Cambridge
Capillary pinch-off of a film on a cylinder

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3:00p-3:30p Second chances

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3:45p-4:00p Group Photo

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4:00p-6:00p Poster Session and Reception

Lind Hall 400 SP7.14-25.08
Chun-Chi Lin, National Taiwan Normal University:
  Untangling elastic knots by the energy decreasing flow
Thomas Peter Witelski, University of Oxford:
  Coarsening of dewetting thin films subject to gravity
Peter Taborek, University of California:
  Self-similarity of the second-kind in 2D inviscid pinch-off: Experiments and theory
Justin C. Burton, University of California:
  Bubble pinch-off at high pressures
Carl Modes, University of Pennsylvania:
  Hard discs on the hyperbolic plane: A proposal for a new model of glassy systems
Leif Gibbens Ristroph, Cornell University:
  Exceptional maneuvers of flying insects revealed by a new motion tracking technique
Laura Elizabeth Schmidt, University of Chicago:
  Length-scale selection in viscous entrainment of stratified liquids
Laura Elizabeth Schmidt, University of Chicago:
  Asymmetries in a disconnecting air bubble: Up/down and around
Robert Ditlow Schroll, University of Chicago:
  Drop impact dynamics
Konstantin Turitsyn, University of Chicago:
  Singularities in 2D void collapse

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

8:30a-9:00a Coffee

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9:00a-9:50a Paul Clavin, UMR CNRS-Universites d'Aix-Marseille I&II
Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability

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9:50a-10:00a Discussion

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10:00a-10:30a Break

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10:30a-11:20a Walter Goldburg, University of Pittsburgh
Hydraulic jump in a flowing soap film

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11:20a-11:30a Discussion

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11:30a-2:00p Lunch

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2:00p-2:10p Henrik Bernhard van Lengerich, Cornell University
Dynamics and stability of a network of coupled drop elements: Coarsening by capillarity

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2:15p-2:25p Dejan Slepcev, Carnegie Mellon University
Blowup dynamics of an unstable thin-film equation

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2:30p-2:40p Michael Renardy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
An open problem concerning breakup of fluid jets

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2:45p-2:55p Norman Lebovitz, University of Chicago
The prospects for fission of self-gravitating masses

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3:00p-3:30p Second chances

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6:30p-8:30p Workshop Dinner at Kikugawa

Kikugawa at Riverplace
43 Main Street SE Minneapolis MN 55414
612-378-3006
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

8:30a-9:00a Coffee

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9:00a-9:50a Robert B. Kusner, University of Massachusetts
Lengths and crossing numbers of tightly knotted ropes and bands

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9:50a-10:00a Discussion

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10:00a-10:30a Break

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10:30a-11:20a Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago
Impact!

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11:20a-11:30a Discussion

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11:30a-2:00p Lunch

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2:00p-2:10p Bjorn Birnir, University of California
Turbulent solutions of the stochastic Navier-Stokes equation

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2:15p-2:25p Jon Wilkening, University of California
Lubrication theory in nearly singular geometries: when should one stop optimizing a reduced model?

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2:30p-2:40p José Bico, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI)
Capillary winding

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2:45p-2:55p John R. Savage, Cornell University
Dynamics of droplet breakup in a complex fluid

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3:00p-3:30p Second chances

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7:00p-7:10p Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago
Scaling properties of singular matrix eigenvectors

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7:15p-8:00p Discussion Session

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Thursday, July 17, 2008

8:30a-9:00a Coffee

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9:00a-9:50a Saleh A. Tanveer, Ohio State University
A new approach to regularity and singularity questions for a class of non-linear evolutionary PDEs such as 3-D Navier-Stokes equation

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9:50a-10:00a Discussion

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10:00a-10:30a Coffee

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10:30a-11:20a David Quéré, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI)
A few viscous jets

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11:20a-11:30a Discussion

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11:30a-2:00p Lunch

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2:00p-2:10p Sigurdur Thoroddsen, National University of Singapore
Singular jets in free-surface flows

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2:15p-2:25p Stephan Gekle, Universiteit Twente
High-speed jet formation after solid object impact

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2:30p-2:40p Emmanuel Villermaux, IRPHE - Institut de Recherche sur les Phénoménes Hors Équilibre
Fragmentation under impact

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2:45p-2:55p David Schaeffer, Duke University
Chaos in a one-dimensional cardiac model

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3:00p-3:10p Andreas Münch, University of Nottingham
Self similar rupture of thin films with slippage

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3:10p-3:40p Second Chances

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Friday, July 18, 2008

8:30a-9:00a Coffee

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9:00a-9:50a Wendy W. Zhang, University of Chicago
Remembering and forgetting in a disconnecting air bubble

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9:50a-10:00a Discussion

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10:00a-10:30a Coffee

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10:30a-11:20a Barbara Wagner, Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik (WIAS)
Patterns in dewetting liquid films: Intermediate and late phases

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11:25a-11:55a Second Chances/End of Friday session

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Saturday, July 19, 2008

All Day No scheduled activity

All Day No scheduled activity

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Sunday, July 20, 2008

All Day No scheduled activity

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Monday, July 21, 2008

8:30a-9:00a Coffee

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9:00a-9:50a Peter Constantin, University of Chicago
The zero temperature limit of interacting corpora

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9:50a-10:00a Discussion

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10:00a-10:30a Break

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10:30a-11:20a Leonid Pismen, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Resolving dynamic singularities: from vortices to contact lines

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11:20a-11:30a Discussion

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11:30a-2:00p Lunch

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2:00p-2:10p Maciek Dominik Korzec, Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik (WIAS)
On similarities of two Cahn-Hilliard type equations

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2:15p-2:25p Mee Seong Im, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Singularities in Calabi-Yau varieties

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2:30p-2:40p Efi Efrati, Hebrew University
Elastic theory of non-Euclidean plates

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2:45p-3:35p David Kinderlehrer, Carnegie Mellon University
What's new for microstructure

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3:35p-4:05p Second chances

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4:30p-6:30p Poster Session and Reception

Lind Hall 400 SP7.14-25.08
Thomas Witten, University of Chicago:
  Fadeout of deposition in an evaporating drop
Justin C. Burton, University of California:
  Bubble pinch-off at high pressures
Peter Taborek, University of California:
  Self-similarity of the second-kind in 2D inviscid pinch-off: Experiments and theory
Vincenzo Vitelli, University of Pennsylvania:
  Geometric theory of columnar phases on curved substrates
Carl Modes, University of Pennsylvania:
  Hard discs on the hyperbolic plane: A proposal for a new model of glassy systems
Robert Ditlow Schroll, University of Chicago:
  Liquid flow driven by light scattering
Efi Efrati, Hebrew University:
  Elastic theory of unconstrained non-Euclidean plates
Maciek Dominik Korzec, Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik (WIAS):
  Stationary solutions and coarsening of a driven Cahn-Hilliard type equation
Hillel Aharoni, Hebrew University:
  Dynamic measurements of crumpling in isotropically confined elastic sheets
Jinhae Park, Purdue University:
  Mathematical modeling and analysis of ferroelectric materials
Hillel Aharoni, Hebrew University:
  Configuration of non-Euclidean plates with varying thickness (by Yael Klein)
Sookyung Joo, University of California:
  Continuum theory and instabilities in smectic liquid crystals
Yang Liu, University of Georgia:
  Crofton measure in Minkowski geometry and singularities

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

8:30a-9:00a Coffee

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9:00a-9:50a Jey Sivaloganathan, University of Bath
Singular minimisers in nonlinear elasticity and modelling fracture

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9:50a-10:00a Discussion

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10:00a-10:30a Coffee

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10:30a-11:20a Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania
The geometry of topological defects

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11:20a-11:30a Discussion

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11:30a-2:00p Lunch

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2:00p-2:10p Thomas J. Pence, Michigan State University
Singularities associated with swelling of hyperelastic solids

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2:15p-2:25p Scott J. Spector, Southern Illinois University
Some remarks on the symmetry of singular minimizers in elasticity

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2:30p-2:40p Itai Cohen, Cornell University
Investigating dislocation dynamics in degenerate crystals of dimer colloids

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2:45p-2:55p Evan Hohlfeld, University of California
Point-instabilities, point-coercivity (meta-stability), and point-calculus

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3:00p-3:30p Second chances

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3:30p-3:45p Group Photo

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6:30p-8:30p Workshop Dinner at Pagoda

Pagoda Restaurant
1417 4th St. SE
Minneapolis, MN
612-378-4710
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

8:30a-9:00a Coffee

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9:00a-9:50a Fernando Lund, University of Chile
Ultrasound as a probe of plasticity? The interaction between elastic waves and dislocations

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9:50a-10:00a Discussion

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10:00a-10:30a Coffee

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10:30a-11:20a Itamar Procaccia, Weizmann Institute of Science
Finite-time singularities in surface-diffusion instabilities are cured by plasticity

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11:20a-11:30a Discussion

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11:30a-2:00p Lunch

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2:00p-2:15p Jinhae Park, Purdue University
Static problems of the chiral smectic and bent core liquid crystals focusing on the role of the spontaneous polarization

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2:20p-2:40p Mihaela D. Iftime, Boston University
On characteristic classes for the gravitational field and black holes

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2:45p-2:55p Konstantin Turitsyn, University of Chicago
Wrinkling of vesicles during transient dynamics in elongational flow

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3:00p-3:30p Second chances

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7:00p-8:00a Discussion Session

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Thursday, July 24, 2008

8:30a-9:00a Coffee

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9:00a-9:50a Mark Dennis, University of Bristol
Topological singularities in optical waves

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9:50a-10:00a Discussion

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10:00a-10:30a Coffee

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10:30a-11:20a Maria-Carme T. Calderer, University of Minnesota
Boundary layers and defects in elastic systems

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11:20a-11:30a Discussion

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11:30a-2:00p Lunch

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2:00p-2:10p Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University
Experimental investigations of packing, folding, and crumpling in two and three dimensions

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2:15p-2:25p David R. Nelson, Harvard University
Buckled viruses, crumpled shells and folded pollen grains

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2:30p-2:40p Laurent Boué, École Normale Supérieure
Towards a statistical physics of crumpled elastic structures?

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2:45p-2:55p Sergio Rica, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Weak turbulence of a vibrating elastic thin plate

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3:00p-3:10p Christophe Josserand, Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie)
Singular behaviors in drop impacts

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3:15p-3:45p Second chances

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Friday, July 25, 2008

8:30a-9:00a Coffee

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9:00a-10:30a Discussion/Conclusion

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