The 24th annual Texas Partial Differential Equations Conference will be held Saturday and Sunday, March 31-April 1, at the University of Houston-Downtown. This campus is located at 1 Main Street, Houston, next to I-10 at the north end of downtown Houston. It is close to many restaurants and the theatre district.
Coffee and doughnuts will be available starting at 9am on Saturday and the first talk will begin at 10 AM. There will be 6 talks on Saturday morning and the meeting will break for lunch at 12.45pm. The conference will resume at 2pm and there will be 8 talks with the last one scheduled to finish at 5.40pm. The meeting will resume at 9 AM on Sunday and there will be 8 talks with the meeting ending about 12.40 PM.
As usual, the conference will have no registration fee, no principal speakers and all talks will be 20 minutes in length. The reception and additional information will be located in A439. Talks will take place in A423.
Airlines serve Houston via Bush Intercontinental Airport and the William P. Hobby Airport. Hobby Airport is smaller, closer to the meeting venue and to the hotels listed on our hotels page. We strongly recommend making your hotel reservations early.
If you arrive by car, follow the directions to downtown Houston. In particular the UH-Downtown web site has a map and directions.
The key is to get on Travis street going north. Before entering I-45 northbound, turn right onto the campus and then right again to enter the visitors parking lot. We have reserved the lot for the conference and the parking will be free.
If you approach downtown Houston from Allen Parkway, go east on Allen Parkway into downtown. Turn left on Travis and proceed to UH-Downtown as indicated above.
The easiest way to get to UH-Downtown from the Warwick Hotel is to travel north on Main or San Jacinto all the way through downtown. Turn left on Commerce Street at the north end of downtown, go down commerce until you get to Travis. Turn right on Travis, which will be the entrance to I-45. Turn right at the next light and you're on campus.
There will be coffee breaks in the middle of each morning and afternoon session. There are many restaurants, of all types, close to the meeting.
Visit the Web site maintained by the Department of Mathematics, the city of Houston, the transport authority Metro, as well as Maps of the University, pictures of the buildings, schedules and maps for the University buses can be obtained from here.
Here is some information on people and activities in Partial Differential Equations of the various University of Houston Math Dept. research groups.
The weather in Houston is notoriously unstable (especially in the Spring), but it is not extreme. Normally, it should be between 60°F and 80°F. Here is up-to-date information about the weather in Houston.
Giles Auchmuty, University of Houston
David Wagner, University of Houston
Steve London, University of Houston—Downtown