Date and Time
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Location
MSB 111
Organizers
Speaker
Cristian Enache (American University of Sharjah)

In this talk we will survey some old and new results on maximum principles for P-functions and their applications to the study of partial differential equations. More precisely, we will show how one can employ the maximum principle in problems of physical or geometrical interest, in order to get the shape of some free boundaries, isoperimetric inequalities, symmetry results, convexity results and Liouville type results. In the first part of the talk  we'll be mainly focused on some overdetermined problems, while in the second part of the talk we'll present our contributions to some Monge-Ampere type problems and eventually discuss some open problems.