The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Programme on IMS Conference on Differential Equations from Mechanics
May 31, 1999 to June 5, 1999
Venue: Room 710, Mong Man Wai Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
May 31 (Monday) |
Time | Title | Speakers |
Chair of the Session: Professor Zhouping Xin, IMS, CUHK |
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8:30 - 9:00am |
Registration |
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9:00 - 9:10am |
Opening Remarks, by Prof. Kenneth Young, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, CUHK |
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9:10 - 10:00am |
Non-existence of Black-Hole Solutions for the Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell Equations |
Prof. Joel A. Smoller, The University of Michigan, USA. |
10:00-10:30am |
Tea Break |
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10:30-11:20am |
Approximate Solutions to the Incompressible Euler Equations with No Concentrations |
Prof. Eitan Tadmor, The University of California at Los Angeles, USA |
11:20-11:50am |
Moving Mesh Methods for Partial Differential Equations |
Prof. Tao Tang, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK. |
11:50-12:20am |
A Geometric Theory of 2-D Incompressible Flows and its Applications to the Large Scale Ocean Circulations. |
Prof. Shouhong Wang, Indiana University, USA |
12:20-2:00pm |
Lunch |
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Chair of the Session: Professor Eitan Tadmor, UCLA |
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2:00 - 2:50pm |
Applications of Generalized Characteristics |
Prof. Constantine Dafermos, Brown University, USA |
2:50 - 3:20pm |
Some Nonlinear Functionals of Scalar Hyperbolic Conservation Law |
Prof. Tong Yang, City University of Hong Kong, HK |
3:20 - 3:50pm |
Aymptotic toward Centered Rarefaction Waves for Some Hyperbolic Semilinear Relaxation systems |
Prof. Weicheng Wang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. |
3:50 - 4:20pm |
Tea Break |
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4:20 - 5:10pm |
Chapman-Enskog, Relaxation, and Rational Approximation |
Prof. Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA |
5:10 - 5:40pm |
Relaxation Limit of Hyperbolic System with Relaxation in the Presence of Boundary |
Prof. Tao Luo, City University of Hong Kong, HK. |
June 1 (Tuesday) |
Time | Title | Speakers |
Chair of the Session: Professor Constatine Dafermos, Brown University |
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8:30 - 9:20am |
To be announced. |
Prof. Bjorn Engquist, UCLA & Columbia, USA |
9:20 - 9:50am |
Gas Evolution Dynamics and Numerical Dissipation in Shock Capturing Schemes |
Prof. Kun Xu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK |
9:50 - 10:20am |
An Iterative Grid Redistribution Method and Applications to Blow Up Problems |
Prof. Xiao-Ping Wang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK. |
10:20 - 10:50am |
Tea Break |
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10:50-11:40am |
Theory of Cosmic Shock-Wave. |
Prof. Blake Temple, The University of California at Davis, USA. |
11:40-12:10am |
First-order L1-convergence for Various Approximations to Conservation Laws |
Prof. Zhen-Huan Teng, Peking University, China. |
12:10-12:40am |
Lip+ Stability of Relaxing Scheme and Numerical Entropy Inequalities of Relaxed Schemes |
Prof. Jinghua Wang, Academia Sinica, China. |
12:40-2:30pm |
Lunch |
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Chair of the Session: Professor Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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2:30 - 3:20pm |
Inflow and Outflow Problems in the Half Space for a One-Dimensional Isentropic Model System of Compressible Viscous Gas |
Prof. Akitaka Matsumura, Osaka University, Japan |
3:20 - 3:50pm |
The Two-Dimensional Riemann Problem in Gas Dynamics |
Prof. Tong Zhang, Academic Sinica, China. |
3:50 - 4:20pm |
Large-time Behavior of Solutions to the Equations of a 1D, Viscous Gas in Unbounded Domains |
Prof. Song Jiang, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics |
4:20 - 4:50pm |
Tea Break |
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4:50 - 5:40pm |
Some Mathematical Analysis in Semiconductor Devices |
Prof. Ling Hsiao, Academia Sinica, China. |
5:40 - 6:10pm |
The Pointwise Estimates of Solution for Multi-Dimensional Euler Systems with Damping |
Prof. Weike Wang, Wuhan University, China. |
June 2 (Wednesday) |
Time | Title | Speakers |
Chair of the Session: Professor Bjorn Engquist, UCLA & Columbia |
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8:30 - 9:20am |
Hydrodynamics of the Ginzburg-Landau vortices |
Prof. Fang-Hua Lin, New York University, USA |
9:20 - 9:50am |
Vortex Dynamics of Ginzburg-Landau Equations in Inhomogeneous Superconductors |
Prof. Huai-Yu Jian and Bin-Heng Song, Tsinghua University, China |
9:50 - 10:20am |
Self-focusing in the Critical Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation And in The Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation |
Prof. Gadi Fibich, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. |
10:20 - 10:50am |
Tea Break |
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10:50-11:40am |
Liouville Theorems for Nonlinear Heat Equations and Applications |
Prof. Frank Merle, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, France. |
11:40-12:10am |
Selective Decay in the Presence of Geophysical Effect |
Prof. Xiaoming Wang, Iowa State University, USA. |
12:10-12:40am |
Non-existence of Singular Solutions to Nonlinear Elliptic Systems |
Prof. Yuanwei Qi, Hong Kong Univeristy of Science and Technology, HK. |
12:40-2:30pm |
Lunch |
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2:30 - 4:20pm |
Break |
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4:20 - 4:50pm |
Tea Break |
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4:50 - 5:40pm |
Break |
June 3 (Thursday) |
Time | Title | Speakers |
Chair of the Session: Professor Tao Tang, Hong Kong Baptist University. |
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8:30 - 9:20am |
A Second Degree Method for the Solution of Inverse Problems in Partial Differential Equations |
Prof. William Rundell, Texas A&M University, USA. |
9:20 - 9:50am |
Interface Problems For Elliptic Equations |
Prof. Long-An Ying, Peking University, China |
9:50 - 10:20am |
Simultaneous Reconstruction of the Heat Radiation Coefficient and Initial Data |
Prof. Jun Zou, The Chinese University of Hongkong, HK. |
10:20 - 10:50am |
Tea Break |
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10:50-11:40am |
High Order Simulation of Viscous Incompressible Flows at Large Reynolds Numbers |
Prof. Jian-Guo Liu, University of Maryland, USA. |
11:40-12:10am |
Stability of a Boundary Integral Method for 3-D Water Waves |
Prof. Pingwen Zhang, Peking University, China. |
12:10-12:40am |
Photo Taking |
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12:40-2:30pm |
Lunch |
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Chair of the Session: Professor Jian-Guo Liu, University of Maryland, USA. |
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2:30 - 3:20pm |
High Frequency Behavior of the Focusing Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation with Random Inhomogeneities |
Prof. Shi Jin, Georgia Institue of Technology, USA. |
3:20 - 3:50pm |
Domain Decompostion Methods for Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs |
Prof. Shiu-Hong Lui, Hong Kong Univeristy of Science and Technology, HK. |
3:50 - 4:20pm |
Wavelets On Interval Over Regular Or Irregular Meshes |
Prof. I-Liang Chern & Chien-Chang Yen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan |
4:20 - 4:50pm |
Tea Break |
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4:50 - 5:20pm |
The Shape Equation for Red Blood Cells |
Prof. Thomas Kwok-Keung Au, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK. |
5:20 - 5:50pm |
Stability of Viscous Boundary Layers of Compressible Fluids |
Prof. Taku Yanagisawa, Nara Women’s University, Japan. |
5:50 - 6:20pm |
Some Results on Evolution p-Laplacian Equations |
Prof. Junning Zhao, Xiamen University, Chian. |
June 4 (Friday) |
Time | Title | Speakers |
Chair of the Session: Prof. Fang Hua Lin, New York University. |
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8:30 - 9:20am |
Linear Boltzmann Equation as Scaling Limit of Quantum Lorentz Gas |
Prof. Horng-Tzer Yau, New York University, USA. |
9:20 - 9:50am |
Spectral Analysis of The Pauli Operator in a Strong Inhomogeneous Magnetic Field |
Prof. Laszlo Erdos, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. |
9:50 - 10:20am |
A Nonlinear Variational WavE Equation |
Prof. Yuxi Zheng, Indiana University, USA. |
10:20 - 10:50am |
Tea Break |
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10:50-11:40am |
Some Bifurcation Problems of Heat Convection |
Prof. Takaaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan. |
11:40-12:10am |
The Dimension of the Attractor for the Navier-Stokes Equations with Nonhomogeneous Boundary Condition |
Prof. Zhongwei Shen, University of Kentucky, USA |
12:10-12:40am |
Global Existence and Long Time Behavior for the Davey-Stewartson Systems |
Prof. Boling Guo, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics |
12:40-2:30pm |
Lunch |
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Chair of the Session: Prof. Shi Jin, Georgia Institue of Technology, USA. |
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2:30 - 3:20pm |
On the Cauchy Problem of the KdV Equation With Stochastic Forcing Term |
Prof. Yoshio Tsutsumi, Tohoku University, Japan. |
3:20 - 3:50pm |
Stability of Multiple-Peaked Solutions |
Prof. Juncheng Wei, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK. |
3:50 - 4:20pm |
Liouville Properties and a Conjecture of De Giorgi |
Prof. Changfeng Gui, University of British Columbia, Canada |
4:20 - 4:50pm |
Tea Break |
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4:50 - 5:40pm |
Two Formulations of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Viscous Problems |
Prof. Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University, USA. |
5:40 - 6:10pm |
Flow Box Theorems at Singularities |
Prof. Jishan Hu, Hong Kong Univeristy of Science and Technology, HK. |
June 5 (Saturday) |
Time | Title | Speakers |
Chair of the Session: Prof. Jun Zou, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
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8:30 - 9:00am |
To be announced. |
Prof. Ping Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences,China. |
9:00 - 9:30am |
Existence of Local Solutions to Supersonic Flow Past a Pointed Body |
Prof. Shuxing Chen, Fudan University, China |
9:30 - 10:00am |
To be announced. |
Prof. Hui Cheng Yin, Nanjing University, China. |