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The Completion of Gross’s Theorem on the Maxwell-Dirac Equations 

Ms. Kimberly Harry
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
MS Graduate Student – Teaching Assistant

“The Maxwell-Dirac equations are a model for the interaction of a relativistic electron with an electromagnetic field. It is to be expected that the initial value problem will have an unique solutions which exists for all time t > 0, for all appropriate initial conditions. This is not yet known, but in 1956, Leonard Gross proved a local existence theorem. In this talk we will present an overview of Gross’s proof.”

Committee Members:
Profs. Kevin McLeod, Peter Hinow, Jeb WIllenbring and Lijing Sun