Undergraduate Research Forum (SPUR 2016)

Students directed by Xiaodong Cao and Robert Strichartz
Short talks in the areas of nonlinear heat equations and analysis on fractals

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 1:00pm
Malott 406

Nonlinear Heat Equations, directed by Xiaodong Cao

1:00 – 1:30
“Differential Harnack Inequality for the Newell-Whitehead Equation”
Zachary Munro (Cornell University)
Jason Snyder (Cornell University)
Tom Stone (University of Wisconsin)

1:35 – 1:55
“Differential Harnack Inequality for Burgers’ Equation”
Zachary Munro, Jason Snyder, and Tom Stone

Analysis on Fractals, directed by Robert Strichartz

2:00 – 2:25
“Restrictions and Sobolev Spaces on the Sierpinski Gasket”
Shuangping Li (University of Hong Kong)
Prem Talwai (Cornell University)