Title:  On the ground state of the magnetic Laplacian in corner domains

Abstract:  I will present recent results about the first eigenvalue of the magnetic Laplacian in general 3D-corner domains with Neumann boundary condition in the semi-classical limit.  The use of singular chains show that the asymptotics of the first eigenvalue is governed by a hierarchy of model problems on the tangent cones of the domain. We provide estimations of the remainder depending on the geometry and the variations of the magnetic field. This is a joint work with V. Bonnaillie-Nol and M. Dauge.

Ricardo Macip from the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla will be giving a lecture about one of Oaxaca's most treasured creatures: the turtle.

El Profesor de la Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Ricardo Macip, estará dando una charla sobre las tortugas y su importancia en Oaxaca, México.

This documentary is narrated by Gilberto Bosques and some of the protagonists of the Jewish and Spanish Republican refugees who arrived in Mexico between 1939 and 1942. After the defeat in the Civil War against Franco, Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas sent Bosques to serve as Consul General in Paris. Once the war broke out, the consulate had to move to Marseilles, where Bosques dedicated his prodigious energies to rescuing as many people as possible by issuing them passports to Mexico. He was responsible for saving the lives of thousands of Jews and Spaniards persecuted by fascism. VISA AL PARAISO is a testimony to this unknown humanitarian mission that to this day remains a remarkable chapter of the history of Mexico.

Lillian Liberman

Lillian Liberman, the daughter of Russian emigrants, is an internationally renowned Mexican filmmaker. Chicoca, her film about child abuse was presented before the World Health Organization in Geneva and the Interamerican Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse, and won two Best Documentary prizes: the Uruguayan Film Festival and the Havana Film Festival. Her film Visa al paraíso [Visa to Paradise] features the strategic role Mexican diplomat Gilberto Bosques, as the Mexican Consul in France, played in saving the lives of many persecuted Jews and Spaniards during World War II. Liberman holds an undergraduate degree in French from the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and simultaneously took all the courses offered at the Sorbonne’s French Institute of Latin America in Mexico. She was a faculty member of French instruction at the Center for Foreign Language Instruction at UNAM. She obtained a degree in film Direction from the Center for University Studies on Cinematography at UNAM.

Documental narrado por Gilberto Bosques y refugiados Judíos y Españoles que llegaron a México entre 1939 y 1942. Luego de la derrota en contra de Franco durante la Guerra Civil, el presidente Mexicano Lázaro Cárdenas nombró a Bosques como Consul General en París. Al comienzo de la Guerra, sin embargo, el consulado se tuvo que trasladar a Marsella, lugar en donde Bosques se dedicó a rescatar y ayudar a Judíos y Españoles dándoles visas y pasaportes Mexicanos. VISA AL PARAISO es un testimonio al trabajo que Bosques realizó y que al día d ehoy sigue siendo un gran capítulo en la historia de México.

 

Lillian Liberan, hija de emigrantes Rusos, es una directora y productora de películas muy reconocida en México. Su películ Chicoca, trata sobre el abuso infantil y fué presentada en e World Health Organization en Geneva y en la organización Interamican Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse. Chicoca ha ganado dos premios de mejor documental, uno en un Festival de Cine en Uruguay y otro en el Festival de Cine e la Habana. La película Visa al Paraíso presenta el rol crucial de Gilberto Bosques durante la 2da Guerra Mundial en rescatar y ayudar a Españoles y Judíos.

Title:  Compressible Navier-Stokes equations with temperature dependent dissipation

Abstract:  From its physical origin, the viscosity and heat conductivity coe!cients in compressible fluids depend on absolute temperature through power laws. The mathematical theory on the well-posedness and regularity on this setting is widely open. I will report some recent progress on this direction, with emphasis on the lower bound of temperature, and global existence of solutions in one or multiple dimensions. The relation between thermodynamics laws and Naiver-Stokes equations will also be discussed. This talk is based on joint works with Weizhe Zhang.

A day long symposium honoring one of Mexico's most treasured animals. Sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences Biology Department and Hispanic Studies Department.

Morning Session

9:00 - 9:15 Symposium Introduction, Randal Voss, UK

9:15 – 10:00 Salamanders are forever, Panagiotis Tsonis, University Dayton

10:00 - 10:30 Waxolotls in literature, Vinnie Cassone, UK

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:15 The skinny on axolotl regeneration, Ashley Seifert, UK

11:15 – 12:00 How axolotls regenerate their limbs, David Gardiner, UC-Irvine

Afternoon Session

1:00 - 1:30 Conquering the axolotl genome, Jeramiah Smith, UK

1:30 - 2:00 Axolotl on a chip, Alex Palumbo, UK

2:00 - 2:30 Of axolotls and tiger salamanders, David Weisrock, UK

2:30 – 3:00 Coffee and Discussion Break

3:00 – 4:00 Using the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) as a flag species to restore the most important and managed wetlands in Mexico: Xochimilco, Luis Zambrano, Autonoma Universidad de Mexico

4:15 - 5:00 Ambystoma Genetic Stock Center Tour

Simposio de un día que rendirá honor a uno de los animales más especiales de Mexico. Patrocinado por los departametos de Biología y Estudios Hispanos del College of Arts & Sciences.

Sesión de la manána

9:00 - 9:15 Introducción al simposio por Randal Voss, UK

9:15 – 10:00 Las salamandras son para siempre, Panagiotis Tsonis, University Dayton

10:00 - 10:30 Waxolotls en literatura, Vinnie Cassone, UK

10:30 – 10:45 Receso

10:45 - 11:15 Regeneración ‘skinny’ del Axolotl, Ashley Seifert, UK

11:15 – 12:00 Cómo los axolotls regeneran sus cuerpos, David Gardiner, UC-Irvine

Sesión de la tarde

1:00 - 1:30 Conquistando el genoma de Axolotls, Jeramiah Smith, UK

1:30 - 2:00 Axolotl en un chip, Alex Palumbo, UK

2:00 - 2:30 De axolotls y salamandras tigre, David Weisrock, UK

2:30 – 3:00 Receso y Discusión

3:00 – 4:00 El axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) como medio para restaurar uno de los más importantes y manejables pantános

mexicanos: Xochimilco, Luis Zambrano, Autonoma Universidad de Mexico

4:15 - 5:00 Tour Genetic Stock Center Ambystoma

"Las Voces de los Apalaches" will be an evening to help celebrate the "Year of Mexico!"  First will be a dramatic presentation in Worsham Theater, beginning at 7 p.m.  To follow the dramatic presentation is the band Apalatin.

Dr. Shlossberg’s work documents contemporary danzas, such as the pastorelas, and related masking customs in central Michoacan. His work also examines how knowledge about masks and masking is often falsified in popular and scholarly work through the repetition of colorful myths that envelop the craft and the disavowal of items produced for the tourist and curio markets as inauthentic and low-grade. Debates over the authenticity of tourist and curio arts shed light on how popular and elite, indigenous, mestizo, and Anglo actors in central Michoacan construct and contest relations of class, race, and inequality as they negotiate the meanings of “tradition,” “ethnic authenticity,” “globalization,” and “cultural change.”

El trabajo del Dr. Scholossberg se enfoca en documentar danzas, pastorales y mascaradas el territorio de Michoacán. Su trabajo busca traer cociencia al público sobre cómo las máscaras y bailes han sido glorificados y falsificados a través de mitos coloríficos que buscan atraer atención turística. Como consecuencia, varias máscaras a la venta suelen ser falsas y no piezas de arte. Varios debates han surgido sobre las diferentes perspectivas tomadas entre las imitiaciones y el verdadero arte curio. Schlossberg busca enseñar como la élite social, los indígenas, mestizos y los Anglo actores de Michoacán construyen, mantienen y negocian relaciones de clase social, raza e inequalidad a través de la tradición, auntenticidad étnica, globalización y cambios culturales en el arte.