VIGRE Minicourse on Variational Methods and Nonlinear PDE

Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

May 28 - June 8, 2002

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Participants

Lectures

Schedule

Working groups

Lecture Titles

• David Hartenstine and Jon Jacobsen, Variational Methods for k-Hessian Equations

  Lecture notes

  Hartenstine: PostScript || Adobe PDF

  Jacobsen: PostScript || Adobe PDF

• Vy Le, Variational Problems in the Space of Functions of Bounded Variation

  Lecture notes

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• Jean Mawhin, Critical Point Theorems and Applications to Nonlinear Differential Equations

  Lecture notes

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• Matthew Rudd and Klaus Schmitt, Variational Inequalities

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• Nick Korevaar, Aleksandrov's Theorem and Symmetry

• Jesse Ratzkin, Bernstein's Theorem

• Andrejs Treibergs, Introduction to Mean Curvature

• Nat Smale, Douglas's Solution to the Plateau Problem

  Lecture notes (Korevaar, Ratzkin, Treibergs, and Smale)

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