WORKSHOP ON FRACTALS

May 3 - 29, 1999

Venue: Room 222B, Lady Shaw Building

The Department of Mathematics and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

During the month of May, we are running a workshop on fractals. Topics included fractal dimensions; multifractal; iterated function systems; random fractals and stochastic processes, tiling. The vistors are:

1. Professor Yang Wang (George Inst. of Technology, U.S.A, 1-31/5/99)
2. Professor Christoph Bandt (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Univ., Germany, 2-17/5/99)
3. Professor Karoly Simmon (Univ. of Miskolc, Hungary, 2-16/5/99)
4. Professor Z.Y. Wen (Tsinghua Univ., China, 2-15/5/99)
5. Professor Anders Oberg (Uppsala Univ., Sweden, 10-25/5/99)
6. Professor Hu Dihe (Wuhan Univ., China, 22-28/5/99)
7. Professor N.R. Shieh (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan, 23-30/5/99)
8. Professor Vo Anh (Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia, 23-28/5/99)
9. Dr. Rao Hui (Wuhan Univ., China, 1/2-31/5/99)

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Program:

3 May 1999 (Monday)

• 10:00a.m.-11:00a.m.:
  Professor Yang Wang, Georgia Inst. of Tech., U.S.A
  On 2-Reptiles
  
• 11:00a.m. - 11:30a.m.
  Tea Break
  
• 11:30a.m. - 12:30p.m.
  Professor Karoly Simmon, Univ. of Miskolc, Hungary
  Hausdorff dimension of fractals with overlapping cylinders

4 May 1999 (Tuesday)

• 10:00a.m. -11:00a.m.
  Professor Christoph Bandt
  Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Univ., Germany
  On the concept of self-similarity for random measures
  
• 11:00a.m. - 11:30a.m.
  Tea Break
  
• 11:30a.m. - 12:30p.m.
  Professor Wen Z.Y.
  Tsinghua Univ., China
  A relation between packing measure and packing premeasure
  

6 May 1999 (Thursday)

• 10:00a.m. -11:00a.m.
  Professor Karoly Simmon
  Univ. of Miskolc, Hungary
  Hausdorff and Packing measures for fractals with overlapping cylinders
  
• 11:00a.m. - 11:30a.m.
  Tea Break
  
• 11:30a.m. - 12:30p.m.
  Dr. Rao Hui
  Wuhan Univ., China
  On a weak separation condition of the IFS
  

7 May 1999 (Friday)

• 10:00a.m. -11:00a.m.
  Professor Christoph Bandt
  Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Univ., Germany
  Random fractal construction
  
• 11:00a.m. - 11:30a.m.
  Tea Break
  
• 11:30a.m. - 12:30p.m.
  Prof. Zhou Ding-Xuan
  City Univ. of H.K., Hong Kong
  The limits of refinable functions
  

10 May 1999 (Monday)

• 2:30p.m.- 3:30p.m.
  Professor Karoly Simmon, Univ. of Miskolc, Hungary
  Dimension of some hyperbolic attractors
  
• 3:30p.m. - 4:00p.m.
  Tea Break
  
• 4:00p.m. - 5:00p.m.
  Professor Wen Z.Y., Tsinghua Univ., China
  Exact upper and lower densities of the Cantor measure

11 May 1999 (Tuesday)

• 10:00a.m. -11:00a.m.
  Professor Anders Oberg, Uppsala Univ., Sweden
  The exact dimension of eigenmeasures to IFSs with general weight functions
  
• 11:00a.m. - 11:30a.m.
  Tea Break
  
• 11:30a.m. - 12:30p.m.
  Professor Yan Lixian, Zhong Zhan Univ., China
  Wavelets and oscillatory integrals

12 May 1999 (Wednesday)

• 10:00a.m. -11:00a.m.
  Professor Yang Wang, Georgia Inst. of Tech., U.S.A.
  The geometry of Rauzy fractals
  
• 11:00a.m. - 11:30a.m.
  Tea Break
  
• 11:30a.m. - 12:30p.m.
  Professor Lau Ka Sing, CUHK
  Self-affine tiles and connectedness

13 May 1999 (Thursday)

• 10:00a.m. -11:00a.m.
  Professor Anders Oberg, Uppsala Univ., Sweden
  Perturbation of invariant measures for IFSs
  
• 11:00a.m. - 11:30a.m.
  Tea Break
  
• 11:30a.m. - 12:30p.m.
  Problem Section
  

To be continued ...

Workshop Secretariat:

Ms. Lily Chan
Rm 501, Mong Man Wai Building
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong.
Tel: 852 - 2609 8038
Fax: 852 - 2603 7636
Email: ims@ims.cuhk.edu.hk

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