Previous Events

2011 

National OxPDE-Sponsored Events 

Details of events sponsored and co-organised by the OxPDE Centre held in 2011.

Lectures on: Bifurcation theory and applications to elliptic boundary-value problems 

Further Information

Workshop on Multi-Scale and High-Contrast PDE: From Modelling to Mathematical Analysis to Inversion

28 June - 1 July 2011

Event Information

Modern Topics in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: Oxbridge PDE Days

Mathematical Institute on 26 & 27 April 2011.  

Presentations 

Oxbridge Delegate Photo

Third South West Regional PDE Winter School

10 & 11 February 2011, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol

Speakers: 

Yann Brenier, Université de Nice, "How the least action principle for Hamiltonian PDEs can be modified to handle dissipative phenomena" Abstract (pdf)

Denis Serre, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. "A characteristic boundary-value problem" Abstract (pdf)

Aldo Pratelli, Università di Pavia, "On the quantative versions of isoperimetric and spectral inequalities" Abstract (pdf)

Local Organisers

  • Michiel van den Berg: m.vandenberg 'at' bristol.ac.uk
  • Isaac Chenchiah: isaac.chenchiah ‘at’ bristol.ac.uk

2010 

PDE Lecture Series:  

"Critical Points of Mountain Pass Type with Applications to Elliptic PDE and Material Microstructure Models"

30 November & 1 December 2010

Partial Differential Equations: Origins, Developments and Roles in the Changing World

The Inaugural Lecture of Gui-Qiang G. Chen, Professor in the Analysis of Partial Differential Equations. Thursday 11th November 2010.

Lectures in PDE

A one-day series of lectures in PDE. Friday 12 November 2010

Speakers:

Peter Topping, University of Warwick
Maria Esteban, Université de Paris-Dauphine
Alfio Quarteroni, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Laure Saint-Raymond, École Normale Supérieure

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Crash-courses in Analysis and Nonlinear PDEs - Third Announcement  

co-sponsored by the Maxwell Centre for Analysis and Nonlinear PDEs and the Oxford Centre for Nonlinear PDE

11 - 13 February 2010

Liquid Crystals Workshop: "Recent Developments in the Analysis and Modelling of Liquid Crystals

15-16 March 2010

Second South West Regional PDE Winter School

Swansea,15-16 January 2010

2009 

Nonlinear PDE and free boundary problems - a series of mini-courses and invited talks

University of Warwick, 15-19 June 2009

Public Lecture in PDE at the 7th ISAAC Congress

Imperial College, London, 13 July 2009

Biomembranes: Modelling and Computation

University of Warwick, 11 May 2009

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Workshop on the mathematics of weather and climate prediction

Met Office, Exeter, 30 March – 3 April 2009

 

 

2008  

First South West Regional PDE Winter School

St Anne's College, Oxford, 12-13 December 2008

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Workshop on the calculus of variations and nonlinear PDE

Swansea University, 16-17 September 2008

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Oxford Centre for Nonlinear PDE — Lectures in PDE

Mary Oglivie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, Thursday 5th June

Speakers:

  • Alfio Quarteroni (EPFL) — Heterogeneous Domain Decomposition Methods
  • Laure Saint-Raymond (Paris VI & ENS) — Weak compactness methods for singular penalization problems with boundary layers
  • Bryce McLeod (Oxford) — A problem in dislocation theory
  • Tom Bridges (Surrey) — Degenerate conservation laws, bifurcation of solitary waves and the concept of criticality in fluid mechanics
  • Neshan Wickramasekera (Cambridge) — Frequency functions and singular set bounds for branched minimal graphs

 

2007  

Launch of the Oxford Centre for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations — Wednesday 24th October 2007

Speakers:

  • Gianni Dal Maso (SISSA, Trieste) - Quasi-static evolution problems in plasticity with softening
  • Yvan Martel (Versailles) - On collision of two solitons for the generalized KdV equation in the nonintegrable case
  • Mike Cullen (Met Office) - Analysis of large-scale atmosphere/ocean flows
  • Rosario Mingione (Parma)- Singular sets and vectorial problems
  • Gregory Seregin (Oxford)- Axially Symmetric Solutions to Navier-Stokes Equations
  • Felix Otto (Universitaet Bonn)- Pattern formation in micromagnetics

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UK Nonlinear PDEs Consultation Meeting, LMS, De Morgan House, 57–58 Russell Square, London, WC1B 4HS. 29th May 2007

The first consultation meeting after the announcement of the EPSRC, S&I awards in NPDEs was held in May 2007 at LMS.

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