Carnegie Mellon Center for Nonlinear Analysis
photo of the building Hammerschlag on campus

Center for Nonlinear Analysis
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
May 29 – June 7, 2008
Location: Baker Hall, Giant Eagle Auditorium

Lecturers and Topics:

Right: A grain of brass, diameter about 1 cm, separated from an ingot. From the collection of W.W. Mullins.

The Summer School will be held concurrently
with the “Heath Lectures on Probability and
Mathematical Finance” given by
Dmitry Kramkov, Carnegie Mellon University,
Goran Peskir, University of Manchester and
Albert Shiryaev, Moscow University.

Organizers:

Irene Fonseca, Giovanni Leoni, David Kinderlehrer, Dmitry Kramkov, Robert Pego, Kavita Ramanann, Dejan Slepčev, Shlomo Ta’asan, Noel Walkington

Left: Model of coarsening in thin liquid films; a configuration early in the coarsening stage (Otto, Rump, and Slepčev).

Graduate students and postdocs are encouraged to contribute a presentation for this conference. The deadline for submission of contributed abstracts is March 1, 2008.

Advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows are encouraged to apply for financial support. The deadline for applications is March 15, 2008.

Center for Nonlinear Analysis
Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Telephone: 412-268-2545
Fax: 412-268-6380
email: cn0s@math.cmu.edu

This conference is sponsored by the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Center of Computational Finance at Carnegie Mellon University and the National Science Foundation.

Right: A grain of brass, diameter about 1 cm, separated from an ingot. From the collection of W.W. Mullins.