Joint Planning Meeting With
The Chinese Academy of Sciences And
Scientific Committee Meeting
Academic Talk Sessions

July 23-26, 1996
Lady Shaw Building, CUHK

23 July Afternoon
Venue: LT6, LSB
Chairperson: K.S. Lau
2:00 - 2:45 C.N. YANG (Director, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CUHK)
Remarks on Some Developments of Statistical Mechanics
2:45 - 3:30 S.T. YAU (Director, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CUHK)
Some Recent Interaction of Mathematics with Physics
3:30 - 4:00 TEA BREAK

4:00 - 4:45 L. YANG (Deputy Director, Chen Xing Centre of Mathematics)
Some Results and Problems in Complex Analysis

4:45 - 5:30 J. WU (Director, US Army Research Office - Far East)
Research Cooperation between China (Hong Kong) and the U.S.

24 July Afternoon
LT3: Physics Session, Chairperson: E. Ching
LT4: Pure Mathematics Session, Chairperson: H.S. Luk
2:00 - 2:45 J.S. LANGER (UC Santa Barbara)
Chaotic Dynamics of Earthquake Faults
LT3

J.H. COATES (University of Cambridge)
Euler Characteristics and Elliptic Curves
LT4

2:45 - 3:30 B. HU (HKBU)
Chaotic Behaviour of KAM Tori
LT3

M.C. LIU (HKU)
Exceptional Sets in Some Generalized Goldbach's Problems
LT4

3:30 - 4:00 TEA BREAK

4:40 - 4:45 H. NAKANISHI (Kyushu University)
Instability in Fracture Dynamics
LT3

C.J. XU (Wuhan University)
On the Regularity of Subelliptic Harmonic Map
LT4

25 July, Afternoon
LT3: Statistic Session, Chairperson: Y. Lam
LT4: Pure Mathematics Session, Chairperson: L.F. Tam
2:00 - 2:45 L. BROWN (University of Pennsylvania)
Asymptotic Statistical Equivalence of Nonparametric Regression and the White Noise Signal Processing Problem
LT3

R. SCHOEN (Standford University)
Variational Problems for Lagrangian Submanifolds
LT4

2:45 - 3:30 W.K. LI (HKU)
Protmanteau Type Statistics in Time Series with Changing Conditional Variance
LT3

S.Y. CHENG (HKUST)
On the Asymmetric Shapely Power Index
LT4

3:30 - 4:00 TEA BREAK

4:40 - 4:45 N.H. CHAN (CUHK)
A- and E- Optimality for Regression Designs under Correlations
LT3

N.M. MOK (HKU)
Cones of Minimal Rational Curves and G-structures
LT4

26 July, Afternoon
LT3: Applied Mathematics Session, Chairperson: R. Chan
LT4: Pure Mathematics Session, Chairperson: S.Y. Cheng

2:00 - 2:45 B. ENGQUIST (UCLA)
Wavelet Based Numerical Homogenization
LT3
W.Y. DING (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Harmonic Hopf Constructions between Spheres

2:45 - 3:30 K.S. LAU (CUHK)
Fourier Asymptotics of Wavelets and Cantor Measures
LT3
C.Q. CHENG (Nanjing University)
Lower Dimensional Tori in the Zone of Instability for Hamiltonians
LT4

3:30 - 4:00 TEA BREAK

4:40 - 4:45 G. LEI (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Stochastic Adaptive Control
LT3
K.Z. LI (University of Science and Technology of China)
Moduli of Supersingular Abelian Varieties
LT4

4:45 - 5:30 S.P. CHEN (Zhenjiang University)
Optimal Control for Stochastic Systems
LT3