The APDE seminar on Monday, 03/02, will be given by Wolf-Patrick Düll in Evans 939 from 4:10 to 5pm.

Title: Validity of the nonlinear Schrödinger approximation for the two-dimensional water wave problem with and without surface tension.

Abstract: We consider the two-dimensional water wave problem in an infinitely long canal of
finite depth both with and without surface tension. In order to describe the evolution
of the envelopes of small oscillating wave packet-like solutions to this problem the
Nonlinear Schrödinger equation can be derived as a formal approximation equation.
The rigorous justification of the Nonlinear Schrödinger approximation for the water
wave problem was an open problem for a long time. In recent years, the validity
of this approximation has been proven by several authors only for the case without
surface tension.
In this talk, we present the first rigorous justification of the Nonlinear Schrödinger approximation for the two-dimensional water wave problem which is valid for the
cases with and without surface tension by proving error estimates over a physically
relevant timespan in the arc length formulation of the water wave problem. Our
error estimates are uniform with respect to the strength of the surface tension, as the
height of the wave packet and the surface tension go to zero.

The APDE seminar on Monday, 03/09 will be given by Mihai Tohaneanu in Evans 939 from 4:10 to 5pm.

Title: Local energy estimates on black hole backgrounds.

Abstract: Local energy estimates are a robust way to measure decay of solutions to linear wave equations. I will discuss several such results on black hole backgrounds, such as Schwarzschild, Kerr, and suitable perturbations converging at various rates, and briefly discuss applications to nonlinear problems. The most challenging geometric feature one needs to deal with is the presence of trapped null geodesics, whose presence yield unavoidable losses in the estimates. This is joint work with Lindblad, Marzuola, Metcalfe, and Tataru.

The APDE seminar on Monday, 02/24 will be given by Mihaela Ifrim in Evans 939 from 4:10 to 5pm.

Title: Almost global well-posedness for quasilinear strongly coupled wave-Klein-Gordon systems in two space dimensions.

Abstract: We prove almost global well-posedness for quasilinear strongly coupled wave-Klein-Gordon systems with small and localized data in two space dimensions. We assume only mild decay on the data at infinity as well as minimal regularity. We systematically investigate all the possible quadratic null form type quasilinear strong coupling nonlinearities, and provide a new, robust approach for the proof.

The APDE seminar on Monday, 03/16 will be given by Johannes Sjöstrand in Evans 939 from 4:10 to 5pm.

Title: Resonances over a potential well in an island.

Abstract: Recent work with M. Zerzeri. Let V : R^n → R be a sufficiently analytic potential which tends to 0 at infinity. Assume that for an E > 0 we have V^{-1}(]- ∞ ,E[)=U(E) ⊔ S(E), where U(E) ∩ S(E) = ∅ , with U(E) connected and bounded (the well) and S(E) connected (the sea). The distribution of the resonances of -h^2 Δ + V near E has been thoroughly studied since more than 30 years. If we increase E a natural scenario is that the decomposition persists until the closures of U(E) and S(E) intersect at a critical energy E = E_0. Under some natural assumptions we show that near E_0 most of the resonances are close to the real axis and obey a Weyl law. In one dimension there are more detailed results (Fujiie-Ramond ’98).