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 |
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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 |
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10:40 - 10:50 |
Tea Break |
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10:50 - 11:25 |
Invited Talk Stability of traveling curved fronts in R2 |
Prof. Masaharu Taniguchi Tokyo Institute Technology |
11:25 - 11:30 |
Discussion |
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11:30 - 12:05 |
Invited Talk Ginzburg-Landau system and surface superconductivity |
Prof. Xingbin Pan National University of Singapore |
12:05 - 12:10 |
Discussion |
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12:10 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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Afternoon Section Chairman: Prof. Norm Dancer |
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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 |
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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 |
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15:50 - 16:00 |
Tea Break |
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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 |
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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 |
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10:40 - 10:50 |
Tea Break |
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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 |
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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 |
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12:10 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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Afternoon Section Chairman: Prof. M. Mimura |
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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 |
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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 |
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15:50 - 16:00 |
Tea Break |
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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 |
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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 |
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9:30 - 10:30 |
Plenary Talk Reaction-diffusion models on growing domains |
Prof. Philip Maini University of Oxford |
10:30 - 10:40 |
Discussion |
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10:40 - 10:50 |
Tea Break |
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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 |
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11:30 - 12:05 |
Invited Talk Symmetry breaking bifurcation of internal layers |
Prof. Kunimochi Sakamoto Hiroshima University |
12:05 - 12:10 |
Discussion |
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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 |
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10:40 - 10:50 |
Tea Break |
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10:50 - 11:25 |
Invited Talk Travelling waves of three-species reaction-diffusion systems |
Prof. Hideo Ikeda Toyama University |
11:25 - 11:30 |
Discussion |
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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 |
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12:10 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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Afternoon Section Chairman: Prof. Izumi Takagi |
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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 |
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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 |
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15:50 - 16:00 |
Tea Break |
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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 |
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16:40 - 17:15 |
Invited Talk Chemotactic collapse in Keller-Segel systems |
Prof. Takashi Suzuki Osaka University |
17:15 - 17:20 |
Discussion |
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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 |
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10:40 - 10:50 |
Tea Break |
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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 |
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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 |
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12:10 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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Morning Section Chairman: Prof. Giorgio Fusco |
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14:00 - 15:00 |
Plenary Talk Periodic-decaying positive solutions on Rn |
Prof. Norm Dancer University of Sydney |
15:00 - 15:10 |
Discussion |
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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 |
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15:50 - 16:00 |
Tea Break |
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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 |
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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 |