| MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR | |
| Topic: | Low-degree Landau-Lifshitz and Schroedinger Maps |
| Speaker: | Stephen Gustafson |
| Affiliation: | University of British Columbia |
| Date: | Wednesday, April 8 |
| Time/Room: | 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101 |
The Schroedinger (and Landau-Lifshitz) map equations are a basic model in ferromagnetism, and a natural geometric (hence nonlinear) version of the Schroedinger (and Schroedinger-heat) equation. While there has been recent progress on the question of singularity formation for the wave and heat analogues (wave map and harmonic map heat-flow), the Schroedinger case is more elusive. We present results on blow-up and long-time dynamics when the energy is near-minimal (given the topology), part of joint works with M. Guan, K. Kang, K. Nakanishi, and T.-P. Tsai.