Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Geometric Analysis: A conference in honor of Richard Melrose

March 23-25, 2002

MIT, Room 34-101

Schedule:

 Time Saturday Sunday Monday
 9:00 -- 9:30  Coffee and Registration Coffee  Coffee
 9:30 -- 10:30 Peter Sarnak:
``The first term in Shnirelman's asymptotics for arithmetic surfaces''
Johannes Sjöstrand:
``Spectrum of non-self-adjoint operators in dimension 2''
Mitsuru Ikawa:
``On scattering by several convex bodies''
10:30 -- 11:00 Coffee Coffee Coffee
11:00 -- 12:00 Steven Zelditch:
``Statistical Patterns in polynomials with fixed Newton polytope''
Vesselin Petkov:
``Spectral shift function and resonances''
Charles Fefferman:
``Q-Curvature and the Poincaré Metric''
12:00 -- 1:45 Lunch Lunch Lunch
 1:45 -- 2:45 Michael Taylor:
``PDE on Rough Domains''
Terence Tao:
``A new Morawetz inequality for nonlinear Schrödinger equations''
Charles Epstein:
``Indices and relative indices in contact- and CR-geometry''
 3:00 -- 4:00 Victor Ivrii:
``Sharp spectral asymptotics for operators with irregular coefficients''
Daniel Tataru:
``The nonlinear wave equation''
Peter Lax:
``Positive schemes''
 4:00 -- 4:30 Coffee Coffee Coffee
 4:30 -- 5:30 Gunther Uhlmann:
``Travel Time Tomography and Boundary Rigidity''
Nicolas Burq:
``Non linear Schrödinger equations on manifolds''

Banquet, Sunday Evening, 7:30PM, Ashdown House