Titles for Midwest PDE seminar, fall 1997, Lexington, Kentucky

• Emmanuele di Benedetto, Northwestern University, Asymptotics estimates for certain degenerate parabolic equations
• Wilfrid Gangbo, Georgia Tech, Optimal Maps for the Multidimensional Monge-Kantorovich Problem.
• Steve Hofmann, University of Missouri, Recent progress on boundary value problems for the heat equation in time varying domains
• Mary Ann Horn, Vanderbilt University, Applications of microlocal analysis to the question of stability of elastic systems
• Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Optimal Control of PDE/ODE systems modeling Bioreactors
• Yuan Lou, University of Chicago, Diffusion vs. Cross-diffusion
• Michael Taylor, University of North Carolina, Layer integral techniques for PDE with non-smooth coefficients
• Roger Temam, Indiana University Some mathematical problems related to the primitive equations of the atmosphere and oceans Abstract