Midwest partial differential equations seminar University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky The fall 1997 seminar will take place on September 20 and 21 in Lexington, Kentucky. All talks will be in the Chemistry-Physics building, room 155. The Chemistry-Physics building is located near the corner of Rose and Columbia Ave. on the campus of the University of Kentucky. Saturday, 20 September, 1997 8:25, 8:45 Van departs from Campbell House and Kentucky Inn 8:30-9:00 Coffee and refreshments in Chemistry-Physics 179 9:00-9:50 Mary Ann Horn, Vanderbilt University, Applications of microlocal analysis to the question of stability of elastic systems 10:00-10:50 Steve Hofmann, University of Missouri Recent progress on boundary value problems for the heat equation in time varying domains 11:00-11:50 Michael Taylor, University of North Carolina, Layer integral techniques for PDE with non-smooth coefficients 12:00-1:50 Lunch 1:50-2:40 Emmanuele di Benedetto, Northwestern University, Asymptotic estimates for certain degenerate parabolic equations 2:50-3:40 Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Optimal Control of PDE/ODE systems modeling bioreactors 3:40-4:10 Coffee Break in Chemistry-Physics 179 4:10-5:00 Nicola Garofalo, Purdue University, Trace inequalities in Carnot-Caratheodory spaces and applications Transportation to be arranged. 7:30 Party, Math house, 417 Columbia Ave. Sunday, 21 September, 1997 8:25, 8:45 Van departs from Campbell House and Kentucky Inn 8:30-9:00 Coffee and refreshments in Chemistry-Physics 179 9:00-9:50 Yuan Lou, University of Chicago, Diffusion vs. Cross-diffusion 10:00-10:50 Wilfrid Gangbo, Georgia Institute of Technology, Optimal Maps for the Multidimensional Monge-Kantorovich Problem 11:00-11:50 Roger Temam, Indiana University, Some mathematical problems related to the primitive equations of the atmosphere and oceans Transportation to motels and/or aiport. Parking: Parking is not controlled on Saturday and Sunday. A convenient lot is located behind Memorial Coliseum, approximately one and a half blocks from the Chemistry--Physics building. The entrance to this lot is on Rose St., a half block northeast of Euclid Ave. Transportation: A van will provide transportation between the motels and the conference. We will pick up at both motels at the times listed on the schedule. Please wait near the front door. We will provide transportation back to the motels Saturday night and to the airport on Sunday afternoon. Accomodations: Blocks of rooms are being held at two motels. These motels are near each other and approximately one mile from campus. Campbell House Inn 1375 Harrodsburg Road Lexington, Kentucky 40504 (606) 255-4281 / 1-800-432-9254 - Single $46, double $59 - Rooms held until two weeks prior (September 5). - Participants identify themselves as "UK Math group" - Airport transportation available, call from airport The Kentucky Inn 525 Waller Avenue Lexington, Kentucky 40504 (606) 254-1177 / 1-800-221-6652 - Single $44 or double $45 - September 19, 20, 21 - Rooms held until two weeks prior (September 5) - Identify yourself as participant in the Midwest partial differential equations seminar. Transportation: We will provide a shuttle van between the motels and campus. Support: Limited support is available for graduate students. Please contact the organizers for more details. For further information, please contact Russell Brown via e--mail at rbrown@ms.uky.edu or 606 257 3951. Announcements for the Midwest PDE Seminar are available via listserv. To subscribe to the list, send mail to: listserv@listserv.uic.edu with the single line message subscribe midwpde your_first_name your_last_name If you have difficulty with the subscription, please contact Jeff Lewis via e-mail (jlewis@uic.edu). Support for the conference has been provided by the National Science Foundation, the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Research, the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies and the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kentucky. Russell Brown Peter Hislop Zhongwei Shen