Math 290J: Introduction to Water Waves

List of topics with references and a brief discussion.

Date Speaker Topic

Jan. 19 Rowan Killip Overview.

Jan. 26 Norbet Požár Local well-posedness in 2D with surface tension.

Feb. 2 Paul Smith Local smoothing.

Feb. 9 Zaher Hani Local well-posedness in 2D without surface tension I.

Feb. 16 Zaher Hani Local well-posedness in 2D without surface tension II.

Feb. 23 Helen Lei The Dirichlet to Neumann map.

Mar. 1 Yao Yao Taylor instability and the linearized problem.

Some web resources:

Wikipedia on Surface tension, Viscosity, and Water
Lecture notes on Fluid Dynamics from MIT
Movies! from the National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films.
Wikiwaves

Date	Speaker	Topic
Jan. 19	Rowan Killip	Overview.
Jan. 26	Norbet Požár	Local well-posedness in 2D with surface tension.
Feb. 2	Paul Smith	Local smoothing.
Feb. 9	Zaher Hani	Local well-posedness in 2D without surface tension I.
Feb. 16	Zaher Hani	Local well-posedness in 2D without surface tension II.
Feb. 23	Helen Lei	The Dirichlet to Neumann map.
Mar. 1	Yao Yao	Taylor instability and the linearized problem.