The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences

IMS Workshop on Reaction-Diffusion Systems

December 6 (Monday) - 10 (Friday), 1999

 Venue: Rm. 707, Mong Man Wai Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

December 6 (Monday)

Time

Title

Speakers

Morning Section Chairman: Prof. Michael Ward

9:15 - 9:20

Welcome Speech

Prof. Zhouping Xin IMS, CUHK

9:20 - 10:30

Opening Remarks and Plenary Talk - Recent topics on RD systems from the viewpoints of biological and chemical patterns

Prof. M. Mimura Hiroshima University

10:30 - 10:40

Discussion

10:40 - 10:50

Tea Break

10:50 - 11:25

Invited Talk

Stability of traveling curved fronts in R2

Prof. Masaharu Taniguchi Tokyo Institute Technology

11:25 - 11:30

Discussion

11:30 - 12:05

Invited Talk

Ginzburg-Landau system and surface superconductivity

Prof. Xingbin Pan National University of Singapore

12:05 - 12:10

Discussion

12:10 - 14:00

Lunch

Afternoon Section Chairman: Prof. Norm Dancer

14:00 - 15:00

Plenary Talk - Pulse dynamics and transition to spatio-temporal chaos in dissipative systems

Prof. Yasumasa Nishiura Hokkaido University

15:00 - 15:10

Discussion

15:10 - 15:45

Invited Talk - Some recent results on nonlnear parabolic equations with absorption

Prof. Yuanwei Qi The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

15:45 - 15:50

Discussion

15:50 - 16:00

Tea Break

16:00 - 16:35

Invited Talk

The dynamics of spike solutions for reaction-diffusion systems in two dimensional space

Prof. Shin-Ichiro Ei Yokohama City University

16:35 - 16:40

Discussion

16:40 - 17:15

Invited Talk

On the effect of domain geometry on a superlinear elliptic problem

Prof. Liqun Zhang Academia Sinica & IMS, CUHK

17:15 - 17:20

Discussion

 

December 7 (Tuesday)

Morning Section Chairman: Prof. Yasumasa Nishiura

9:30 - 10:30

Plenary Talk

Interfaces for the nonlocal Allen-Cahn equation in higher space dimensions

Prof. Peter Bates Brigham Young University

10:30 - 10:40

Discussion

10:40 - 10:50

Tea Break

10:50 - 11:25

Invited Talk

Existence of multiple ground states in the Gierer-Meinhardt system

Prof. Manuel del Pino Universidad de Chile

11:25 - 11:30

Discussion

11:30 - 12:05

Invited Talk - Remarks on the limit equation for vortex dynamics of the Ginzburg-Landau equation with Neumann condition

Prof. Yoshihisa Morita Ryukoku University

12:05 - 12:10

Discussion

12:10 - 14:00

Lunch

Afternoon Section Chairman: Prof. M. Mimura

14:00 - 15:00

Plenary Talk

The stability and dynamics of a spike-layer pattern

Prof. Michael Ward University of British Columbia

15:00 - 15:10

Discussion

15:10 - 15:45

Invited Talk

On a 1-dimensional variational problem related to Cahn-Hilliard energy on a Strip-Like domain

Prof. Kazuhiro Kurata Tokyo Metroporitan University

15:45 - 15:50

Discussion

15:50 - 16:00

Tea Break

16:00 - 16:35

Invited Talk

Multiple-Spike solutions for the two-dimensional Gierer-Meinhardt system: Existence and stability

Prof. Matthias Winter Universit\"at Stuttgart

16:35 - 16:40

Discussion

16:40 - 17:15

Invited Talk

Solutions with multiple interfaces in the bistable nonlocal equation

Prof. Adam Chmaj Brigham Young University

17:15 - 17:20

Discussion

 

December 8 (Wednesday)

Morning Section Chairman: Prof. Arjen Doelman

8:50 - 9:25

Invited Talk Waves, the Poincare equation and related mathematical problems

Prof. Keke Zhang University of Exeter, UK

9:25 - 9:30

Discussion

9:30 - 10:30

Plenary Talk Reaction-diffusion models on growing domains

Prof. Philip Maini University of Oxford

10:30 - 10:40

Discussion

10:40 - 10:50

Tea Break

10:50 - 11:25

Invited Talk The shape of red blood cells

Prof. Tom Wan The Chinese University of Hong Kong

11:25 - 11:30

Discussion

11:30 - 12:05

Invited Talk

Symmetry breaking bifurcation of internal layers

Prof. Kunimochi Sakamoto Hiroshima University

12:05 - 12:10

Discussion

Afternoon section

Free

 

 

December 9 (Thursday)

Morning Section Chairman: Prof. Peter Bates

9:30 - 10:30

Plenary Talk

Large stable pulse solutions in reaction-diffusion equations

Prof. Arjen Doelman Universiteit van Amsterdam

10:30 - 10:40

Discussion

10:40 - 10:50

Tea Break

10:50 - 11:25

Invited Talk

Travelling waves of three-species reaction-diffusion systems

Prof. Hideo Ikeda

Toyama University

11:25 - 11:30

Discussion

11:30 - 12:05

Invited Talk

Min-maximizers for reaction-diffusion systems with skew-gradient structure

Prof. Eiji Yanagida University of Tokyo

12:05 - 12:10

Discussion

12:10 - 14:00

Lunch

Afternoon Section Chairman: Prof. Izumi Takagi

14:00 - 15:00

Plenary Talk

Dynamics of repelling spikes for a system of reaction-diffusion equations

Prof. Giorgio Fusco Universita di L''Aquila

15:00 - 15:10

Discussion

15:10 - 15:45

Invited Talk

Stability of bound states for the nonlinear Schrodinger equations with inhomogeneous nonlinearities

Prof. X. P. Wang The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

15:45 - 15:50

Discussion

15:50 - 16:00

Tea Break

16:00 - 16:35

Invited Talk

On a two dimensional reaction-diffusion system with hypercyclical structure

Prof. Jun Cheng Wei The Chinese University of Hong Kong

16:35 - 16:40

Discussion

16:40 - 17:15

Invited Talk

Chemotactic collapse in Keller-Segel systems

Prof. Takashi Suzuki Osaka University

17:15 - 17:20

Discussion

18:30

Banquet

 

 

December 10 (Friday)

Morning Section Chairman: Prof. Philip Maini

9:30 - 10:30

Plenary Talk

Stability, instability and Hopf bifurcation of spiky patterns in a reaction-diffusion system

Prof. Izumi Takagi Tohoku University

10:30 - 10:40

Discussion

10:40 - 10:50

Tea Break

10:50 - 11:25

Invited Talk

A study of nonlocal phase transformation problems by variational methods

Prof. Xiaofeng Ren Utah State University

11:25 - 11:30

Discussion

11:30 - 12:05

Invited Talk

Existence of single and multiple interior spikes solutions for a semilinear neumann problem

Prof. Angela Pistoia University of Pisa

12:05 - 12:10

Discussion

12:10 - 14:00

Lunch

Morning Section Chairman: Prof. Giorgio Fusco

14:00 - 15:00

Plenary Talk Periodic-decaying positive solutions on Rn

Prof. Norm Dancer University of Sydney

15:00 - 15:10

Discussion

15:10 - 15:45

Invited Talk Self-similar solutions to a parabolic system of chemotaxis

Prof. Kiyoshi Yoshida Hiroshima University

15:45 - 15:50

Discussion

15:50 - 16:00

Tea Break

16:00 - 16:35

Invited Talk

Some numerical methods and their convergence theory for electromagnetic problems in continuous and discontinuous media

Prof. Jun Zou The Chinese University of Hong Kong

16:35 - 16:40

Discussion

16:40 - 17:15

Invited Talk Uniqueness of solutions for some nonlinear elliptic problems

Prof. Massimo Grossi Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"

17:15 - 17:20

Discussion