V. Lakshmikantham 
World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts ’92 [PDF ebook] 
Proceedings of the First World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, Tampa, Florida, August 19-26, 1992

I-IV – Preface – Table of Contents – List of Participants – Investigation of Oldrojt’s viscoelastic model when viscous coefficient tends to zero – Nonlinear PDE problems in electrophotography – A special class of maximum principles with applications to nonlinear boundary value problems – Nonlinear mathematics in nonacademic settings – Motion of a graph by nonsmooth weighted curvature – Some results on heat flow in electric conductors – Global classical solutions to fully nonlinear wave equations – Solitons and domains in dipole chains – Nonlinear instabilities of steady and oscillatory wave convection in a rotating system – Bifurcations and chaos in predator-prey models with delay – On a new variant degree theory of mapping and its application – Solvability of semilinear operator equations and periodic solutions of differential equations – Solutions of semilinear equations in cones and wedges – On a nonlinear elliptic problem with subcritical and critical Sobolev exponent – Existence and bifurcation results for some semilinear elliptic equations on ?N – Some remarks about the existence of positive solutions for elliptic systems – Sub- and supersolutions of nonlinear elliptic and parabolic problems – Positive solutions and boundary value problems of singular and nonsingular type – On the asymptotic behavior of laminar flow through a porous pipe – The monotone method for third order boundary value problems – Duality and variational principles for nonlinear hyperbolic equations – Decay and global existence for some nonlinear dissipative wave equations – On the philosophy of the spectral variable – Wave propagation in uniaxial nonconducting nonlinear thermoelastic solids – Approximation of dissipative hereditary systems – Stefan problems in several space variables with dynamic boundary conditions – Existence and multiplicity of periodic solutions for semilinear parabolic equations – Boundary integral solution of a nonlinear heat conduction problem – On the existence of travelling waves in reaction–diffusion systems – The strong maximum principle for cooperative periodic-parabolic systems and the existence of principal eigenvalues – Blowing-up of solutions of semilinear parabolic equations – An existence and uniqueness theorem for solutions of nonlocal parabolic partial differential equations – Open problems in nonlinear ordinary boundary value problems arising from the study of large-amplitude periodic oscillations in suspension bridges – One species extinction in an autonomous competition model – Periodic stability and reachability of nonlinear parabolic equations under boundary periodic perturbations – A criterion for asymptotic stability based on topological degree – Periodic solutions and subharmonic solutions for a class of planar systems of Lotka – Volterra type – Periodic boundary value problems for impulsive integro-ordinary differential equations – Some multiplicity results for subharmonic solutions to second order nonautonomous systems – New results in quenching – On the life span of solutions to nonlinear wave equations – Conversion and penetration fronts in combustion – The transition from decay to blow–up in some reaction–diffusion–convection equations – Numerical Experiments on the Ginzburg-Landau Equations – Counterexamples to the existence of inertial manifolds – Inverse problems versus an algebraic spectral method for nonlinear evolution equations – A finite difference scheme for an inverse heat equation – Nonlinear ill-posed problems – Maximum entropy regularization of nonlinear ill-posed problems – Variational derivatives in function spaces – Radial and nonradial solutions of a nonlinear scalar field equation – A geometric method for the periodic problem – Large perturbations of Toda lattices – Distribution of mass principle and its applications to nonlinear elliptic equations – Attractors of bipolar and non-Newtonian viscous fluids – Nonlinear d