UAH > Math > Colloquia > 12/6/2004

Dirichlet boundary value problems in a Hilbert Space


Prof. Djivide Kelome

Department of Mathematics
University of Massachusetts

December 6, 2004
202 Madison Hall
2:30 PM (Coffee and Cookies at 2:00)

Abstract

We study a class of second order PDEs with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a bounded open convex subset of a separable Hilbert space. We explain their connection with exit problems associated to the underlying stochastic processes. We prove existence and uniqueness of the solution in the linear case and discuss some extensions of the results in the nonlinear case.