AMS 2006 Fall Western Section Meeting
Special Session on Nonconvex Variational Problems: Recent Advances and Applications
All talks will take place in the James Fletcher Building, Room 103, a short walk from the John Widtsoe Building(JWB), the home of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah; The Faculty Lounge in JWB will be the venue for the Meeting Registration. 

Each talk is scheduled for 20 minutes, with an additional 5-10 minutes for questions. Blackboards, an overhead projector, and an LCD (computer) projector will be provided.

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM


Saturday, October 7, 2006 Morning Session - James Fletcher Building Room 103

8:00am Alexander Panchenko, Washington State University - Steady Poiseuille flow of nematic liquid crystals: effective equations and momentum relations for Young measures

8:30am Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University - Homogenization and field concentrations in heterogeneous media

9:00am Elena Cherkaev, University of Utah - Min-max variational problem of optimal design

9:30am Fadil Santosa, University of Minnesota - Optimal design of an optical resonator

10:00am Marian Bocea, North Dakota State University - Variational principles in $L^{\infty}$ under general PDE constraints

10:30am Pablo Pedregal, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real (SPAIN) - Quadratic cost functionals in the gradient and linear state laws

Saturday, October 7, 2006 Afternoon Session - James Fletcher Building Room 103

3:00pm Pierre Seppecher, Universite du Sud-Toulon-Var (FRANCE) - Comparison of the asymptotic analyses of a non-planar rod in linear elasticity and non-linear elasticity.

3:30pm Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon University - On the Contact-angle Condition for Stranski-Krastanow Islands

4:00pm Chris Larsen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Threshold-based quasistatic evolution of brittle damage

4:30pm Yury Grabovsky, Temple University - Quasiconvexity-based sufficient conditions for strong local minima: the smooth case

5:00pm Andrej Cherkaev, University of Utah - New bounds for multiphase conducting composites

5:30pm Vincent Millot, Carnegie Mellon University - The dipole problem for $S^1$-valued maps with $H^{1/2}$-regularity

Sunday, October 8, 2006 Morning Session - James Fletcher Building Room 103

8:00am Cristina Popovici, North Dakota State University - The homogenization of energies arising in the van der Waals-Cahn-Hilliard theory of phase transitions

8:30am Graeme W. Milton, University of Utah - Proof of the conjectures of Polya-Szego and Eshelby

9:00am Nathan Albin, Universitat Duisburg-Essen (GERMANY)  - Optimal Multiphase Composites: Navigating the Translation Bound

9:30am Daniel Onofrei, Worcester Polytechnic Institute - The unfolding method for perforated domains

10:00am Oksana Bihun, University of Missouri-Columbia - Distortion Minimal Morphing of Compact Embedded Manifolds.