Texas Differential Equations Conference Schedule

March 4-5, 2017, College Station, TX

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A continental breakfast will be provided each day from 8.30am and refreshments are available at BLOC 141.

Each talk should be 20 minutes long with up to 5 minutes for questions and discussions between talks.

Saturday March 4th, Morning Session at BLOC 166

9:00 - 9:20am Changfeng Gui, UTSA, "Sphere Covering Inequality and its application to a Moser-Trudinger type inequality and mean field equations" 9:25 - 9:45am Qi Han, TAMU-SA, "On the first exterior p-harmonic Steklov eigenvalue" 9:50 - 10:10am Eleftherios Gkioulekas, UT-RGV, "Revisiting the dissipation scales of the energy cascade of 3D turbulence as anomalous scaling functions" 10:15 - 10:35am Ze Cheng, UTSA, "The existence of solution to the supercritical Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev type system" +++ Coffee and Tea break 10:40am - 11:00am at BLOC141. 11:00 - 11:20am Zhijun (George) Qiao, UT-RGV, "Negative integbale systems and soliton equations" 11:25 - 11:45am Youn-Sha Chan, UH-Downtown, "Dynamical Models on Embryonic Stem-cell Switch" 11:50 - 12:10pm Stephen Shipman, Louisiana State University, "Short-Time Behavior of the Exciton-Polariton Equations" 12:15 - 12:35pm Zhaosheng Feng, UT-RGV, "Approximate Solutions to the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers Equation" +++ A two-styled Buffet Lunch will be provided at BLOC 141 12:40pm

Saturday March 4th, Afternoon Parallel Sessions at BLOC 166/220

Parallel session 1: at BLOC 166 1:40 - 2:00pm Prabir Daripa, TAMU, "On stability of viscoelastic fluid flow in porous media" 2:05 - 2:25pm Erwin Suazo, UT-RGV, "On Ermakov-Pinney Equation and Soliton Solutions for Partial Differential Equations" 2:30 - 2:50pm Wenjing Zhu, Zhejiang Normal University, China, "Exact Traveling Wave Solutions and Bifurcations for a Shallow Water Equation Modeling Surface Waves of Moderate Amplitude" 2:55 - 3:15pm Du Pham, UTSA, "On weak solutions of the Shigesada-Kawasaki-Teramoto equations" +Coffee-Tea break+ 3:20 - 3:40pm at BLOC 141 3:40 - 4:00pm Steven D. London, UH-Downtown, "Solitary waves in rotating shallow water magnetohydrodynamics" 4:05 - 4:25pm Taoufik Meklachi, Penn State University, Harrisburg, "Vibration control in spring mass systems" 4:30 - 4:50pm Barbara A. Shipman, UT-Arlington, "Integrable Moving Frames for Spacelike, Timelike, and Euclidean Surfaces"

Parallel session 2: at BLOC 220 1:40 - 2:00pm Saroj Pradhan, Southern Methodist University, "Identification of Human Respiratory System with Peripheral and Central Control" 2:05 - 2:25pm Vesselin Vatchev, UT-RGV "Empirical Approximations of Differential Operators" 2:30 - 2:50pm Bingbing Ji, TAMU,"A Local Minimax Method Using Nehari Manifold for Finding Differential Saddles" 2:55 - 3:15pm Cong Gu, TAMU, "Iterative Scaling Method for Numerical Solution of Kirchhoff-type Problems with Cubic Nonlinarity" +Coffee-Tea break+ 3:20 - 3:40pm at BLOC 141 3:40 - 4:00pm Yuliya Gorb, UH, "A Robust Preconditioner for High-Contrast Problems" 4:05 - 4:25pm Ben Wongsaijai, Chiang Mai University, "Numerical Analysis of a linear four-level finite difference scheme for the symmetric regularized long wave equation" 4:30 - 4:50pm Isaac Harris, TAMU, "Direct Method for Reconstructing Inclusions from Electrostatic Data"

Sunday March 5th, Morning Session at BLOC 166

9:00 - 9:20am D. Palaniappan, TAMU-CC, "General Solution Representations for the Motion of a Circular Disk in a Viscous Fluid" 9:25 - 9:45am Yeyao Hu, UTSA, "Stationary solutions to the Ohta-Kawasaki problem on closed surfaces" 9:50 - 10:10am Jean Yeh, TAMU, "Numerical Modeling and Computation of 3D Shape Optimization Problems by OpenFOAM" 10:15 - 10:35am Sourav Dutta, TAMU, "A modern hybrid method for multiphase, multicomponent flow and transport in porous media" +++ Coffee and Tea break 10:40am - 11:00am at BLOC 141. 11:00 - 11:20am Changhui Tan, Rice University, "Global regularity for Burgers equation with density dependent fractional dissipation" 11:25 - 11:45am Frank Cisneros, TAMU - CC, "Analytic Calculation of Harmonic Potentials involving Spherically Coated Multiphase Domains"