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# Seminar

Nonlinear diffusion and free boundaries. From porous media to fractional diffusion March 07, 2011 (04:10 PM PST - 05:10 PM PST)
Location: UC Berkeley, 60 Evans Hall
Speaker(s) Juan Vazquez
Description
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