Autumn Semester of 2009

Special Lecture on Mathematical and Information Sciences IV

Professor Wei-Ming Ni
(University of Minnesota, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Visiting Professor))

Ookayama Campus, Tokyo Tech, West 8(E) Building, Room W832

Friday 13:20--14:50

Contents of the lecture

October 2 (Fri) Introduction
Examples of autnonomous equations: Location of peaks for Dirichlet problems and for Neumann problems
Examples of non-autonomous equations: "Slower diffuser always prevails!"
October 9 (Fri) Symmetry of solutions for nonlinear elliptic equations in a ball with the Dirichlet boundary condition
the method by a "moving-plane"
October 16 (Fri) Symmetry of solutions in the whole Euclidean space
October 23 (Fri) no lecture due to the university festival
October 30 (Fri) A single peak in a ball
November 6 (Fri) Palais-Smale condition, a least energy solution
November 13 (Fri) axially symmetry w.r.t. the diameter in a ball
November 27 (Fri) a restrived version for Neumann problems
December 11 (Fri) "Slower diffuser always prevails!", principal eigenvalues and positive solutions
January 8 (Fri) principal eigenvalues, positive solutions, globally asymptotic stability
January 15(Fri) colloquium of Dept. Math and Comp. Sciences
January 15 (Fri) no lecture due to the entrance examinations
January 22 (Fri) competition-diffusion system with different diffusion rates, Which will win: a faster diffuser or a slower diffuser?
January 29 (Fri) Inhomogeneous problems, smarter diffusers, co-existence of two diffusers
February 5 (Fri) Supplementary lecture 1/2
February 12 (Fri) Supplementary lecture 2/2

His office is as follows.

Room W1107, Building 8(W)
(03)5734-3491

Submit a report and get a good score!

Stdudents who are listening to the lecture are now recommended to submit a report. One can download the subject and submit his (her) report to Prof. Ni till February 15 (Monday).

Photos after the colloquium (January 15)

The following is pictures after the colloquium of Prof. Ni on January 15.
photo (Prof. Ni, Prof. Yotsutani, Prof. Miyamoto, Mr. Kurokawa)
photo (Prof. Yotsutani, Prof. Miyamoto, Mr. Kurokawa, Taniguchi

Please see a access map to reach to Ookayama Campus, Tokyo Tech. Please see the campus map of Ookayama Campus for the Building West 8(E).

For details please contact with

Masaharu Taniguchi
Dept. of Mathematical and Computing Sciences
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Ookayama 2-12-1-W8-38, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
(03)5734-3209

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