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Conference: Stability of Shock Waves and other Structures in Gas Dynamics

May 4 - 8, 2026, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Description

This conference will cover the following topics, broadly interpreted: low regularity well-posedness, discontinuous shock fronts, rarefaction waves, contact singularities, inviscid limits, transonic shocks past steady flows

Registered Participants

Name Affiliation
Alberto Bressan The Pennsylvania State University
Geng Chen University of Kansas
Ming Chen University of Pittsburgh
Dan Ginsberg Brooklyn College (CUNY)
Kamyar Hazaveh University of Toronto
Shane Liu Toronto Metropolitan University
Paolo Secchi University of Brescia
Yuri Trakhinin Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
Alexis Vasseur University of Texas - Austin
Dehua Wang University of Pittsburgh
Pin Yu Tsinghua University
Sifan Yu National University of Singapore

Organizing Committee

Leonardo Abbrescia - Georgia Institute of Technology, Michigan State University, Vanderbilt University
John Anderson - Stony Brook University
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