Scope:

This one-week workshop aims at disseminating the most up to date advances on mathematics towards understanding of dynamics of interfaces and spikes in reaction-diffusion systems.

Objectives:

We were brought up to believe that diffusion was left far from formation and dynamics of patterns, because it is smoothing and trivializing process. However, from non-equilibrium systems viewpoints, a surprising variety of spatio-temporal patterns have been observed in all areas of sciences. For understanding such patterns, the development of modeling has given rise to highly sophisticated mathematical problems involving reaction-diffusion systems, differential geometry, dynamical systems, numerical computation and the related applied analysis. At the same time, there have been many important developments in mathematical treatment of these fields. The aim of this workshop is to bring together active researchers working in these fields, especially, understanding of formation as well as dynamics of interfaces and spikes arising in reaction-diffusion systems, from analytical and application viewpoints, and give comprehensive presentations of the basic idea and more advanced develpments and thus to encourage exchanges between mathematics and phenomena, in the hope of opening new directions for research and leading to the development and application of improved analytical tools for studying these problems. This workshop will be a good opportunity for graduate students as well as researchers working on nonlinear PDEs and the related fields in Hong Kong to interact with active researchers in these fast-growing fields.

Partial List of Speakers:

Principal Speakers:

1. Prof. P. Bates (Brigham Young University, USA)
2. Prof. E. N. Dancer (University of Sydney, Australia)
3. Prof. A. Doelman (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
4. Prof. G. Fusco (University di L'Aquila, Italy)
5. Prof. P. Maini (Oxford University, UK)
6. Prof. M. Mimura (Hiroshima University, Japan)
7. Prof. Y. Nishiura (Hokkaido University, Japan)
8. Prof. I. Takagi (Tohoku University, Japan)
9. Prof. M. J. Ward (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Partial List of Invited Speakers:

1. Prof. S.-I. Ei (Yokohama City University, Japan)
2. Prof. Massimo Grossi (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
3. Prof. H. Ikeda 9Toyama University, Japan)
4. Prof. Morita (Ryukoku University, Japan)
5. Prof. T. Nagai (Hiroshima University, Japan)
6. Prof. X. Pan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
7. Prof. M. del Pino (University of Chile, Chile)
8. Prof. X. Ren (Utah State University, Japan)
9. Prof. K. Sakamoto (Hiroshima University, Japan)
10. Prof. T. Suzuki (Osaka University, Japan)
11. Prof. M. Taniguchi (Tokyo Institute Technology, Japan)
12. Prof. T. Wan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
13. Prof. J. C. Wei (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
14. Prof. M. Winter (University Stuttgart, Germany)
15. Prof. E. Yanagida (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Organizers:

• Prof. K. S. Chou (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
• Prof. M. Mimura (Hiroshima University, Japan)
• Prof. J. C. Wei (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
• Prof. Z. P. Xin (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Program:

Click here for the detail arrangement of the program.

Sponsors:

• The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CUHK.
• The Zheng Ge Ru Foundation.

Inquiry:

Prof. Jun-Cheng Wei
Tel: (852)2609 7967
Fax: (852)2603 7636
Email:wei@math.cuhk.edu.hk

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