Undergraduate Research Forum (REU 2014)

REU partcipants directed by Cao and Strichartz
Short talks in the areas of nonlinear heat equations and spectral analysis

Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - 1:00pm
Malott 406

1:00 – 1:25
“On the Newell-Whitehead equation”
Jack Burkart - Notre Dame
Derek Booth – Harvard University

1:30 – 1:55
“Differential Harnack estimates for the Burger’s equation”
Nick McCleery – Rice University
Jack Sempliner – University of Chicago

2:00 - 2:25
“On the heat equation with power law non-linearity”
Derek Booth – Harvard University
Jack Burkart – Notre Dame

2:30 – 2:55
“Spectral asymptotics on surfaces of constant curvature”
Tim Murray – Cornell University