JORNADES D'INTRODUCCIÓ ALS SISTEMES DINÀMICS I A LES EDP'S (JISD2010)

Barcelona, June 14 - 23, 2010



Course
Syllabus
Partial differential equations with fractional diffusion

J-M. Roquejoffre (Univ. P.Sabatier. Toulouse III)
Schedule
  • Lect. 1. Introduction and motivations
    • Models involving nonlocal diffusions: population dynamics, boundary reactions
    • Representation formulas for the fractional Laplacian
  • Lect. 2. The dynamics of Fisher-KPP models
    • KPP type equations with classical diffusion: travelling waves, linear in time propagation
    • KPP type equations with fractional diffusion: exponential in time propagation
  • Lect. 3. Free boundary problems for the fractional Laplacian
    • Boundary behaviour of a fractional harmonic function
    • The one-phase free boundary problem and its weak formulation
    • Qualitative properties
  • Lect. 4. Nonlocal minimal surfaces (i)
    • Motivation: generation of nonlocal motions by convolution with a Poisson kernel
    • Minimising fractional Sobolev norms
    • Viscosity properties
  • Lect. 5. Nonlocal minimal surfaces (ii)
    • The de Giorgi theorem for regularity forminimal surfaces
    • Extension to the nonlocal case
    • Open questions
Mathematical modelling of phase transitions

T. Myers (CRM, Bellaterra, Barcelona)
Schedule
  • Lect. 1. Introduction to Stefan problems
    • Derivation of the heat equation and Stefan condition
    • Classical solutions to the heat equation
  • Lect. 2. Techniques
    • Non-dimensionalisation
    • Separation of variables
    • Perturbation methods
    • Similarity solutions
  • Lect. 3. Integral methods for the heat equation
    • Laplace transforms
    • Heat balance integral methods (HBIM)
  • Lect. 4. Solution of Stefan (phase change) problems
    • The Neumann solution
    • Travelling waves
    • Approximate methods (Integral methods, perturbation, boundary fixing ...)
  • Lect. 5. Practical applications
    • Atmospheric icing (structural/aircraft)
    • Contact melting and Leidenfrost
New connections between dynamical systems and Hamiltonian PDEs

M. Berti (Univ. Federico II, Napoli)
Schedule
  • Lect. 1. Introduction to Hamiltonian PDEs. Examples: nonlinear schrodinger and wave equation, KdV equation, etc... as infinite dimensional Hamiltonian systems
  • Lect. 2. The problem of existence periodic and quasi-periodic solutions, the small divisor problem, history of some known results
  • Lect. 3. An abstract Nash-Moser implicit function theorem with parameters
  • Lect. 4. Existence of periodic and quasi-periodic solutions for the Nonlinear Schrodinger equation
  • Lect. 5. Estimates for the linearized problem
Action-minimizing methods in Lagrangian dynamics


A. Sorrentino (Univ. of Cambridge)

Schedule
  • Lect. 1. In the beginning were KAM tori". Action minimizing properties of measures and orbits on KAM tori and invariant Lagrangian graphs: a cartoon example
  • Lect. 2. Todo sobre Mather". Action-minimizing probability measures for Tonelli Lagrangians: existence and properties. The Mather sets
  • Lect. 3. A phase-space Odissey". Action-minimizing orbits: existence and properties. The Mañé and Aubry sets
  • Lect. 4. The usual suspects". Hamilton-Jacobi equation and Fathi's weak KAM theory




















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