Fall 2024: Math 290 PDE Learning Seminar

Location and Time : Evans 748, Tuesday 10AM - Noon
A list of tentative topics : Topics on Soliton Dynamics

Announcements

We will have our first meeting on September 3, starting from 11AM. (Note the time change.)
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Notes for each talk will be posted to Google Drive Folder .

Schedule

Date Topic References Speaker
09/03 Organizational Meeting
09/10 No Talk
09/17 Existence, uniqueness and symmetry of solitons [Tao '06] Robert
09/24 Orbital stability via variational approach [Grillakis-Shatah-Strauss '87, Cazenave-Lions '82] Daniel
10/01 Normal form transformation and vector field method for Klein-Gordon [Shatah '85, Klainerman '87] Ning
10/08 Classical modulation theory [Stuart '01] Tom
10/15 Asymptotic stability of KdV [Pego-Weinstein '94] Ely
10/22 Kink stability - (distorted) Fourier transform [Lindblad-Lührmann-Schlag-Soffer '23, Lührmann-Schlag '23] Ryan
10/29 Topological solitons of harmonic map heat flow, Schrodinger map [Gustafson-Nakanishi-Tsai '10] Jason
11/05 Construction of multi-soliton solutions for semilinear equations in dimension 3 Istvan Kadar (external speaker)
11/12 No talk
11/19 Kink stability - virial/energy methods [Kowalczyk-Martel-Muñoz '17, Kowalczyk-Martel '22] Yuchen
12/16(TBD) Geodesic hypothesis [Stuart '04, Stuart '04, Yang '14] Federico & Ning