Geometric aspects of elliptic and parabolic equations: curvature driven flows and free boundary problems

• Grant number: 10/07226-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - New Frontiers
• Start date: August 01, 2010
• End date: June 30, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Mathematics - Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Olivâine Santana de Queiroz
• Grantee: Olivâine Santana de Queiroz
• Host Investigator: Sun-Yung Alice Chang
• Host Institution: Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica (IMECC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Princeton University, United States

Abstract

We are interested in geometric and qualitative properties of elliptic and parabolic problems such as curvature driven evolutions equations and free boundaries problems. These kind of problems have either geometric motivations or came from reaction-diffusion models. (AU)