SATURDAY, MARCH 19

8:00-8:30 Continental breakfast, MAGC Building first floor

8:30-8:40 Welcoming and Opening Remarks by Wendy Lawrence-Fowler, UTPA Associate Vice President for Research

8:45-9:05 John Neuberger, University of North Texas, jwn@unt.edu,
"Newton's Method, Sobolev Gradients and Applications" (abstract)

9:10-9:30 Konstantin I. Oskolkov, University of South Carolina, oskolkov@math.sc.edu,
"Quadratic and Quartic Variations of the Schrödinger Particle in a Box" (abstract)

9:35-9:55 Miroslav Krstic, University of California, San Diego, krstic@ucsd.edu,
"A Closed-Form Feedback Controller For Stabilization of Navier-Stokes Equations Modeling Channel Flow" (abstract)

10:00-10:20 Youn-Sha Chan, University of Houston-Downtown, chany@uhd.edu,
"Crack Problems for Advances Material Modeling" (abstract)

10:25-10:45 Mufid Abudiab and Charles McCauley, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, maa0176@falcon.tamucc.edu,
"Mathematical Modeling of Bio-electromagnetic Information Processing the Extracellular Potentials and Fields of a Traveling Gaussian Wave Approximation of the Action Potential for a Neural Volume Conductor" (abstract)

10:50-11:10 Changbing Hu, Texas A&M University, cbhu@math.tamu.edu,
"Nonlinear Stability of Viscous Shock Waves Arising in Conservation Laws with Fourth Order Regularization Only" (abstract)

11:15-11:35 Nicolae Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet, tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu,
"On the Hamiltonian Constraint Equation in General Relativity" (abstract)

11:40-12:00 Georgii Omel'yanov, University of Sonora, Mexico, omel@hades.mat.uson.mx,
"Weak Asymptotics Method and the Problem of Nonlinear Waves Interaction" (abstract)

12:00-2:00 Lunch Banquet, University Ballroom (building #7 on campus map, toward South-West corner of Campus)

2:00-2:20 Mohammed Bhatti, University of Texas - Pan American, bhatti@utpa.edu, "Solutions of the KdV Equation in the Modified B-Polynomial Basis" (abstract)

2:25-2:45 Janos Turi, University of Texas at Dallas, turi@utdallas.edu,
"Analysis of Dynamic Contact Problems" (abstract)

2:50-3:10 Francisco Avila, University of Texas at El Paso, solin@utep.edu,
"Semi-Orthonormal Shape Functions for the hp-FEM" (abstract)

3:15-3:35 Greg Verchota, Syracuse University, gverchot@syr.edu,
"Fredholm Properties for Some Nonvariational Layer Potentials on Lipschitz Boundaries" (abstract)

3:40-4:00 Andras Balogh, University of Texas - Pan American, abalogh@utpa.edu,
"On the Eigenvalues of a Class of Fourth Order Nonselfadjoint Differential Operators" (abstract)

4:05-4:25 Mikhail Kovalyov, University of Alberta, mkovalyo@ualberta.ca,
"Uncertainty Principle for KdV" (abstract)

4:30-4:50 Iulia Susnea, University of Ulm, susnea@mathematik.uni-ulm.de,
"An Existence Theorem for Hessian Equations in Small Domains" (abstract)

4:55-5:15 Vladimir Varlamov, University of Texas - Pan American, varlamov@utpa.edu,
"Oscillatory Integrals and Weak Rotation Asymptotics for Ostrovsky Equation" (abstract)

6:30-10:00 PIZZA AND BEER PARTY at the home of Andras Balogh
(about 3 miles from UTPA, map is here )

SUNDAY, MARCH 20

8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast, MAGC building first floor

8:30-8:50 Liping Liu, University of Texas - Pan American, lipingliu@utpa.edu,
"Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions to Rosenau-Burgers Equation with Periodic Boundary Condition" (abstract)

8:55-9:15 Anahit Galstyan, University of Cincinnati, galstya@email.uc.edu, "Dimension n=5 is Critical for the Bifurcation Phenomena" (abstract)

9:20-9:40 Matthew Rudd, University of Texas at Austin, rudd@math.utexas.edu,
"Game-Theoretic Schemes for Geometric Front Propagation" (abstract)

9:45-10:05 Paul Bracken, University of Texas - Pan American, bracken@utpa.edu,
"Some Methods for Generating Explicit Solutions to the KdV and Generalized KdV Equations" (abstract)

10:10-10:30 Mostafa Ghandehari and Siamak Ardekani, University of Texas at Arlington, ghandeha@cse.uta.edu,
"An Analysis of Two-Lane Highway" (abstract)

10:35-10:55 Dung Le and Toan Trong Nguyen, University of Texas at San Antonio, dle@math.utsa.edu, "Everywhere Regularity of Solutions to a Class of Strongly Coupled Degenerate Parabolic Systems" (abstract)

11:00-11:20 Bao-Feng Feng, University of Texas - Pan American, feng@utpa.edu, "Finite-Dimensional Behavior of a Dissipative PDE with Hilbert Transform Terms on a Center-Unstable Manifold" (abstract)

11:25-11:45 Zhaosheng Feng, University of Texas - Pan American, zsfeng@utpa.edu,
"Lie Symmetries of a Dissipative Nonlinear System" (abstract)

11:50-12:10 Dambaru Bhatta, University of Texas - Pan American, bhattad@utpa.edu, "Hydrodynamic Coefficients due to a Heaving Cylinder in Water of Finite Depth" (abstract)

12:15-12:35 Karen Yagdjian, University of Texas - Pan American, yagdjian@utpa.edu, "Global Existence for Nonlinear Wave Equations with Variable Speed of Propagation" (abstract)

12:40-1:00 Zhijun Qiao, University of Texas - Pan American, qiao@utpa.edu,
"A New Integrable Hierarchy and Its Solutions" (abstract)

1:05 Closing remarks