FBP2012 -- Focus Sessions

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Monday, 11 June 2012

Free Boundaries in Critical-State Problems
Organizer: Jose Francisco Rodrigues

14:00     Piotr Mucha     ABSTRACT
Facets and discontinuous elliptic operator
14:30     Lisa Santos     ABSTRACT
Variational and quasivariational solutions for quasilinear equations with gradient constraint
15:00     Leonid Prigozhin     ABSTRACT
Lakes and rivers in the landscape: A quasi-variational inequality approach
15:30     Graziano Crasta     ABSTRACT
Macroscopic electrodynamics of hard superconductors

Numerical Methods for Evolving Hypersurfaces
Organizer: Charlie Elliott

14:00     Chandrasheka Venkataraman     ABSTRACT
Modelling cell motility with the evolving surface finite element method
14:30     Vanessa Styles     ABSTRACT
Numerical analysis of an inverse problem for the eikonal equation
15:00     Tom Ranner     ABSTRACT
Finite element analysis of a Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface
15:30     Robert Nürnberg     ABSTRACT
Stable approximation of Stefan problems with fully anisotropic Gibbs-Thomson law

Reaction-diffusion Equations
Organizer: Henry Beresticki & Claudia Lederman

16:30     Yihong Du     ABSTRACT
Evolution and long-time behaviour of the free boundary in nonlinear Stefan problems
17:00     Georg Weiss     ABSTRACT
Convective combustion in porous media: singular limit of high activation energy
17:30     Danielle Hilhorst     ABSTRACT     TALK
A fast precipitation and dissolution limit for a reaction-diffusion system arising in porous medium
18:00     Lionel Roques     ABSTRACT
The inside dynamics of traveling waves

Biomembranes
Organizer: Matthias Röger

16:30     Marco Veneroni     ABSTRACT
On minimizers of Helfrich energy for two-phase biomembranes
17:00     Andreas Rätz     ABSTRACT
A diffuse-interface approximation of Willmore-flow for colliding interfaces
17:30     Alexei Heintz     ABSTRACT
Incompressible Willmore flows imbedded in viscous fluid as a model for lipid membranes deformations
18:00     Björn Stinner     ABSTRACT
Application of elastic flows to cell motility

Drops, Bubbles and Application in Microfluids
Organizer: Marco Fontelos

16:30     Günther Grün     ABSTRACT
On thermodynamically consistent schemes for two-phase flow with mass density contrast and species transport
17:00     Christophe Josserand     ABSTRACT
Pressure on drops: what is the role of the surrounding gas
17:30     Andreas Münch     ABSTRACT
A multiple scales approach to evaporation induced marangoni convection
18:00     Georgy Kitavtsev     ABSTRACT
Coarsening rates for the dynamics of polymer droplets in the presence of strong slippage

Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Analysis of Fluidic Interfaces
Organizer: Dieter Bothe
14:00     Helmut Abels     ABSTRACT
On sharp interface limits of diffuse interface models
14:30     Daniel Depner     ABSTRACT
Existence of weak solutions for a diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow with degenerate mobility
15:00     Joachim Escher     ABSTRACT
Analysis of fluidic interfaces
15:30     Barbara Wagner     ABSTRACT
Effective Slip for An Upper Convected Maxwell Fluid

Phase field models
Organizer: Pierluigi Colli & Jürgen Sprekels
14:00     Maurizio Grasselli     ABSTRACT
Recent results on phase-field systems with nonlocal interactions
14:30     Christiane Kraus     ABSTRACT
Phase field systems for phase separation and damage processes
15:00     Alain Miranville     ABSTRACT
A Cahn-Hilliard model with dynamic boundary conditions
15:30     Ken Shirakawa     ABSTRACT
A phase field system motivated by grain boundary motion with degeneracy

Level Set Methods
Organizer: Martin Burger
16:30     John Mackenzie     ABSTRACT
On the Computational Modelling of Eukaryotic Cell Migration and Chemotaxis
17:00     Marie-Therese Wolfram     ABSTRACT
A level set shape optimization method for an elliptic obstacle problem
17:30     Elsa Vennat     ABSTRACT
Capillary rise in demineralized dentin and more generally in a fibrous tissue
18:00     Maria Garzon     ABSTRACT
Simulation of electrostatically driven jets from non-viscous droplets using Level Sets

Multiscale Problems in Material Sciences
Organizer: Barbara Niethammer
16:30     Michael Herrmann     ABSTRACT
Three-scale analysis of nonlocal Fokker-Planck equations
17.00     Anja Schlömerkemper     ABSTRACT
On an Allen-Cahn/Cahn-Hilliard model with geometrically linear elastic energy
17:30     Stefan Neukamm     ABSTRACT
Quantitative methods in stochastic homogenization
18:00     Sven-Joachim Kimmerle     ABSTRACT
Optimal control of macroscopic models for phase transitions

Regularity of Free Boundaries
Organizer: Georg Weiss
16:30     Joachim Escher     ABSTRACT
Regularity of free boundaries
17:00     Erik Lindgren     ABSTRACT
A free boundary problem of two-phase type related to the fractional Laplacian
17:30     Stephan Luckhaus     ABSTRACT
Monotonicity formulae for free discontinuity problems
18:00     Eugen Varvaruca     ABSTRACT
Singularities of axisymmetric free surface flows with gravity

Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Thermodynamics of Interfaces
Organizer: Hans Wilhelm Alt & Wolfgang Dreyer
10:30     Dieter Bothe     ABSTRACT
Continuum-Thermodynamics of chemically reacting multicomponent fluid systems
11:00     Gabriele Witterstein     ABSTRACT
The Existence of Transition Profiles for Compressible Flows
11:30     Jan Giesselmann     ABSTRACT
Derivation of entropy inequalities at interfaces via asymptotic analysis
12:00     Clemens Guhlke     ABSTRACT
Sharp limit of the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation in the context of the 2nd law of thermodynamics

Optimization and Free Boundaries
Organizer: Michael Hintermüller
10:30     Robert Nürnberg     ABSTRACT
A semismooth Newton method for a gradient constrained minimization problem
11:00     Carlos Rautenberg     ABSTRACT
Fixed Point Methods for Parabolic Quasi-Variational Inequalities with Gradient-type Constraints
11:30     Juan-Carlos de los Reyes     ABSTRACT
An optimization based numerical approach for free boundary problems modeled by variational inequalities of the second kind
12:00     Thomas Surowiec     ABSTRACT
A bundle-free implicit programming approach for the optimal control of va- riational inequalities

Thursday, 14 June 2012

Numerical methods for fluidic interfaces
Organizer: Arnold Reusken
14:00     Lutz Tobiska     ABSTRACT
Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian finite-element method for computation of two-phase flows with soluble surfactants
14:30     Sebastian Aland     ABSTRACT
A continuum model of particle-stabilized interfaces
15:00     Michael Hinze     ABSTRACT
Simulation and control of multiphase flows governed by the Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes system (CHNSS)
15:30     Eberhard Bänsch     ABSTRACT
A finite element method for particulate flow

Singular geometric evolutions of free boundaries
Organizer: Giovanni Bellettini & Yoshihiro Tonegawa
14:00     Matteo Novaga     ABSTRACT
A symmetry result for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator
14:30     Luca Mugnai     ABSTRACT
Upper Bounds on coarsening rates for surface attachment limited kinetics
15:00     Maurizio Paolini     ABSTRACT     TALK
Curvature flow with nonconvex anisotropy relaxed with a well-posed Allen-Cahn system
15:30     Piotr Rybka     ABSTRACT
Motion of Closed Curves by Singular Weighted Mean Curvature

Numerical methods for multiphase flow with phase transition
Organizer: Dietmar Kröner
16:30     Paola Goatin     ABSTRACT
A general phase transition model for vehicular traffic
17:00     Siegfried Müller     ABSTRACT
Modeling phase transitions for compressible multi-phase flows
17:30     Christian Rohde     ABSTRACT
A Relaxed Navier-Stokes-Korteweg Model
18:00     Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage     ABSTRACT
On a phase field model for solid-liquid phase transitions

Crystalline interface evolution and related singular curvature flow
Organizer: Yoshikazu Giga & Piotr Rybka
16:30     Giovanni Bellettini     ABSTRACT     TALK
On a notion of solution to a forward-backward parabolic equation in one space dimension, and its regularizations
17.00     Robert Nürnberg     ABSTRACT
Numerical approximation of facetted pattern formation in snow crystal growth
17:30     Noriaki Yamazaki     ABSTRACT
Optimal control problems of phase field system with total variation functional as the interfacial energy
18:00     Matteo Bonforte     ABSTRACT
Total Variation Flow and Sign Fast Diffusion in one dimension

Qualitative Properties of Free Boundaries
Organizer: Bernd Kawohl
16:30     Giuseppe Buttazzo     ABSTRACT
Evolution of domains by spectral flows
17:00     Vincenzo Ferone     ABSTRACT
The longest shortest fence and sharp Poincar-Sobolev inequalities
17:30     Ryan Hynd     ABSTRACT
Option pricing in the large risk aversion, small transaction cost limit
18:00     Paolo Salani     ABSTRACT
An overdetermined problem with non constant boundary condition

Friday, 15 June 2012

Free boundaries in mathematical biology
Organizer: John King
10:30     John King     ABSTRACT
Multiscale free boundary problems in mathematical biology
11:00     John Ward     ABSTRACT
Two moving boundary problems describing bacterial biofilm growth
11:30     Matthias Röger     ABSTRACT
A spatially coupled model for cell polarization
12:00     Danielle Hilhorst     ABSTRACT     TALK
A nonlinear parabolic-hyperbolic system for contact inhibition of cell-growth

Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hilliard models
Organizer: Harald Garcke & Vanessa Styles
10:30     Yoshihiro Tonegawa     ABSTRACT
Existence and regularity of mean curvature flow via Allen-Cahn equation
11:00     Hassan Farshbaf-Shaker     ABSTRACT
Phase-field approaches to structural topology optimization
11:30     Ralf Kornhuber     ABSTRACT
Numerical Solution of vector-valued phase field equations
12:00     Pierluigi Colli     ABSTRACT
A nonstandard phase field system of viscous Cahn-Hilliard type