Long-time dynamics of some nonlocal diffusion models with free boundary

Speaker: 

Yihong Du

Institution: 

University of New England (Australia)

Time: 

Friday, January 15, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Propagation has been modelled by reaction-diffusion equations since the pioneering works of Fisher and Kolmogorov-Peterovski-Piskunov (KPP). Much new developments have been achieved in the past a few decades on the modelling of propagation, with traveling wave and related solutions playing a central role. In this talk, I will report some recent results obtained with several collaborators on some reaction-diffusion models with free boundary and "nonlocal diffusion", which include the Fisher-KPP equation (with free boundary) and two epidemic models.  A key feature of these problems is that the propagation may or may not be determined by traveling wave solutions.  There is a threshold condition on the kernel functions which determines whether the propagation has a finite speed or infinite speed (known as accelerated spreading). For some typical kernel functions, we obtain sharp estimates of the spreading speed (whether finite or infinite).

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The total variation flow in metric random walk spaces

Speaker: 

José Mazón

Institution: 

Universitat de Valencia (Spain)

Time: 

Friday, April 9, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

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Our aim is to study the Total Variation Flow (TVF) in metric random walk spaces (MRWS) which include as particular cases: the TVF on locally finite weighted connected graphs. We introduce the concepts of perimeter and mean curvature for subsets of a MRWS. After proving the existence and uniqueness of solutions of the TVF, we study the asymptotic behaviour of those solutions, and for such aim we establish some inequalities of Poincar ́e type. Furthermore, we introduce the concepts of Cheeger and calibrable sets in metric random walk spaces and characterize calibrability by using the 1-Laplacian operator. In connection with the Cheeger cut problem we study the eigenvalue problem whereby we give a method to solve the optimal Cheeger cut problem.

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A new variational principle with applications in partial differential equations and Analysis

Speaker: 

Abbas Momeni (Moameni)

Institution: 

Carleton University

Time: 

Friday, December 4, 2020 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

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The purpose of this presentation is to introduce a comprehensive variational principle that allows one to apply critical point theory on closed proper subsets of a given Banach space and yet, to obtain critical points with respect to the whole space. This variational principle has many applications in partial differential equations while unifying and generalizing several results in nonlinear Analysis such as the fixed point theory, critical point theory on convex sets and the principle of symmetric criticality.

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Recent Advances concerning the Navier-Stokes and Euler Equations

Speaker: 

Edriss Titi

Institution: 

University of Cambridge - Texas A&M University - Weizmann Institute of Science

Time: 

Friday, October 30, 2020 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

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In this talk I will discuss some recent progress concerning the Navier-Stokes and Euler equations of incompressible fluid. In particular, issues concerning the lack of uniqueness and the effect of physical boundaries on the potential formation of singularity. In addition, I will present a blow-up criterion based on a class of inviscid regularization for these equations.

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Aggregation with intrinsic interactions on Riemannian manifolds

Speaker: 

Razvan Fetecau

Institution: 

Simon Fraser University

Time: 

Friday, October 23, 2020 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

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We consider a model for collective behaviour with intrinsic interactions on Riemannian manifolds. We establish the well-posedness of measure solutions, defined via optimal mass transport, on several specific manifolds (sphere, hypercylinder, rotation group SO(3)), and investigate the mean-field particle approximation. We study the long-time behaviour of solutions, where the primary goal is to establish sufficient conditions for a consensus state to form asymptotically. The analytical results are illustrated with numerical experiments that exhibit various asymptotic patterns.

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Moving Boundary Problems and Medicine

Speaker: 

Sunčica Čanić

Institution: 

UC Berkeley

Time: 

Friday, December 11, 2020 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

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With the recent developments of new technologies in biomedical engineering and medicine, the need for new mathematical and numerical methdologies to aid these developments has never been greater. In particular, the design of next generation drug-eluting stents for the treatment of coronary artery disease, and the design of an implantable bioartificial pancreas for the treatment of Type 1 diabetes, hinge on the development of mathematical and computational techniques for solving nonlinear moving boundary problems. In this talk we present recent developments and open problems in the mathematical theory of nonlinear moving boundary problems describing the interaction between viscous, incompressible fluids, and elastic and poroelastic structures. Applications of the mathematical results to coronary angioplasty with stenting, and to bioartificial pancreas design will be shown.

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A Proximal-Gradient Algorithm for Crystal Surface Evolution

Speaker: 

Katy Craig

Institution: 

UC Santa Barbara

Time: 

Friday, October 16, 2020 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

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In recent years, there has been significant interest in continuum models of crystal surface evolution and facet formation. However, in the most physically relevant case, when the free energy of the surface is the total variation energy, even existence of solutions to the continuum PDE is unknown. Furthermore, attempts at developing a robust numerical method for simulating solutions suffer from significant stiffness, preventing numerical study of the equation’s behavior on fine spatial grids. In this talk, I will describe a new approach to simulating solutions of the crystal surface evolution equation based on combining the formal gradient flow structure of this equation with modern operator splitting techniques. This is based on joint work with Jian-Guo Liu, Jianfeng Lu, Jeremy L. Marzuola, and Li Wang.

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Elliptic integrands in geometric variational problems

Speaker: 

Antonio De Rosa

Institution: 

Courant Institute, NYU

Time: 

Friday, October 18, 2019 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

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Location: 

RH 440R

I will present the recent tools I have developed to prove existence and regularity properties of the critical points of anisotropic functionals. In particular, I will provide the anisotropic extension of Allard's celebrated rectifiability theorem and its applications to the anisotropic Plateau problem. Three corollaries are the solutions to the formulations of the Plateau problem introduced by Reifenberg, by Harrison-Pugh and by Almgren-David. Furthermore, I will present the anisotropic counterpart of Allard's compactness theorem for integral varifolds. To conclude, I will focus on the anisotropic isoperimetric problem: I will provide the anisotropic counterpart of Alexandrov's characterization of volume-constrained critical points among finite perimeter sets. Moreover I will derive stability inequalities associated to this rigidity theorem. 

Some of the presented results are joint works with De Lellis, De Philippis, Ghiraldin, Gioffré, Kolasinski and Santilli.

A PDE Model for Chemical Reactions and Diffusions

Speaker: 

Peyam Tabrizian

Institution: 

UC Irvine

Time: 

Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

RH 340P

In this talk, I present two PDE models of a chemical reaction, and I show that they are two different sides of the same coin: namely, the solutions of one PDE converge to the solutions of the other. The proof of this fact is surprisingly elementary (but not easy), because it just requires some integration by parts. This is based on joint work with Lawrence C. Evans. No chemistry background required.

Optimal boundary regularity for fast diffusion equations in bounded domains

Speaker: 

Tianling Jin

Institution: 

HKUST

Time: 

Friday, November 8, 2019 - 3:00pm

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Location: 

RH 440R

We will show optimal boundary regularity for bounded positive weak solutions of fast diffusion equations in smooth bounded domains. This solves a problem raised by Berryman and Holland in 1980 for these equations in the subcritical and critical regimes. Our proof of the a priori estimates uses a geometric type structure of the fast diffusion equations, where an important ingredient is an evolution equation for a curvature-like quantity. This is joint work with Jingang Xiong.

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