Subject:      Midwest PDE at Purdue Oct 26-27

                               PURDUE UNIVERSITY

                           Department of Mathematics

                               FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT

                 MIDWEST PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR


The Midwest PDE Seminar will be held this fall in the Mathematical Sciences
Building, Room 175, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, during the
weekend of October 26--27, 1996. The schedule is the following:

                             SATURDAY, October 26:

9:30-10:00 AN           Coffee and doughnuts, Library Lounge, 3rd Floor,
                           Math.Sciences Bldg.

10:00-11:00 AM          Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Northwestern University,
                           "Stability Estimates for Two-Dimensional Cracks in
                               Three-dimensional Bodies"

11:30-12:30 AM          Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University,
                           "Connectivity of Phase Boundaries in Convex Domains"

Lunch Break

2:00-3:00 PM            Robert Kohn, Courant Institute-New York University,
                            "Branching of Magnetic Domains and Folding of Thin
                                Film Blisters"

3:15-4:15 PM            Robert Jerrard, University of Illinois at
                          Urbana-Champaign,
                            "Lower Bounds for Ginzburg-Landau Type Functionals"

Coffee Break

4:45-5:45 PM            Jeffrey Rauch, University of Michigan,
                            "Diffractive Nonlinear Geometric Optics"


                            SUNDAY, October 27

8:30-9:00 AM            Coffee and doughnuts, Library Lounge

9:00-10:00 AM           Fang-Hua Lin, Univ. of Chicago
                          and Courant Institute-New York University,
                            "Mapping Problems, Defect Measures and Fundamental
                               Groups"

10:15--11:15 AM         Zhongwei Shen, University of Kentucky,
                            "On the Number of Negative Eigenvalues of Magnetic
                               Schrodinger Operators"

11:30 AM-12:30 PM       Sigurd Angenent, University of Wisconsin,
                            "Conley-Floer Homology for an Indefinite
                               Superquadratic System of Elliptic Equations"


                             ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

                                 ** Lodging: **

The Union Club (on campus)                         University Inn
$59 single, $65 double.                            3001 Northwestern Avenue
Phone: (800) 320--6291.                            West Lafayette
A block of rooms for seminar                       (two miles from campus)
participants is being held                         $57 single, $62 double
until October 15.                                  Phone: (800) 777--9808
                                                   A block of rooms for seminar
                                                   participants is being held
                                                   until September 25.

      Please mention the title of the conference when making reservations.

                                 ** Parking: **

Ample public parking is available during the weekend in the parking garage
across from the Math. Sciences Bldg. at 2nd and University Streets and also in
the parking garage on Grant Street across from the Union Club.


Organizing Committee: Patricia Bauman,
                      Nicola Garofalo,
                      Dan Phillips and
                      Antonio SaBarreto.

For further information, please contact Dan Phillips:
e--mail: phillips@math.purdue.edu or
Phone: (317) 494--1939.

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