International Conference on Applied Mathematics

List of Talks

Plenary speakers (Multi-media Conference Room)

• Yann BRENIER, Université de Nice, France
  Reconstruction of the Early Universe and Monge-Ampere Gravitation
  (Thursday, 10 June, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm)
• Michael P. BRENNER, Harvard University, USA
  Sphere Packings and Self Assembly
  (Wednesday, 9 June, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm)
• Russel CAFLISCH, University of California (Los Angeles), USA
  Martingales and Monte Carlo for American Options
  (Friday, 11 June, 9:30 am - 10:30 am)
• Weinan E, Princeton University, USA; Peking University, China
  Boundaries of Free Boundaries: The Mathematics and the Physics of the Moving Contact Line
  Problem
  (Wednesday, 9 June, 9:30 am - 10:30 am)
• Herbert HUPPERT, University of Cambridge, UK
  The Fluid Dynamics of Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
  (Monday, 7 June, 10:50 am - 11:50 am)
• Terry LYONS, University of Oxford, UK
  Rough Paths
  (Friday, 11 June, 11:00 am - 12:00 am)
• Charles MICCHELLI, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  Local Reconstruction of Band Limited Signals
  (Tuesday, 8 June, 9:30 am - 10:30 am)
• Robert M. MIURA, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
  Mathematical Modeling in Biology and Medicine
  (Tuesday, 8 June, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm)
• John A. WHITEHEAD, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
  Instability of Solidifying Liquid Flow in Tubes
  (Thursday, 10 June, 9:30 am - 10:30 am)

Invited Talks (SCOPE Lecture Theatre, Seminar Room 1 & 2)

Continuum Minisymposium

• Robert CONTE, Ecole normale suprieure de Cachan (CMLA) et CEA-DAM, France
  Exact Elliptic Solutions to the Quintic Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
  (Thursday, 10 June, 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm)
• Hui-Hui DAI, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  On the Instabilities Induced by Phase Fronts Coalescence in a Thin SMA Layer
  (Thursday, 10 June, 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm)
• James HILL, University of Wollongong, Australia
  Modelling the Diffusive Growth of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes
  (Thursday, 10 June, 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm)
• Zhaoqing ZHANG, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  Dynamics of Localized Waves in Open Media
  (Thursday, 10 June, 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm)

Fluids Minisymposium

• Xiaobing FENG, The University of Tennessee, USA
  Numerical Methods for a Fully Nonlinear Model of Semigeostrophic Flows
  (Monday, 7 June, 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm)
• Reghan HILL, McGill University, Canada
  Electrical Microrheology of Hydrogel-colloid Composites: Steady, Dynamic, and Electro-acoustic
  Response Functions
  (Monday, 7 June, 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
• Huaxiong HUANG, York University, Canada
  Formation of Liquid Bridges Between Patched Substrates
  (Monday, 7 June, 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm)
• Masato NAGATA, Kyoto University, Japan
  Transition to Turbulence for Flows without Linear Criticality
  (Monday, 7 June, 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm)

Granular Materials Minisymposium

• Alejandra AGUIRRE, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Granular Flow through an Aperture
  (Thursday, 10 June, 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm)
• JJ BREY, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
  Breakdown of Hydrodynamics in the Inelastic Maxwell Model of Granular Gases
  (Monday, 7 June, 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm)
• John DE BRUYN, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
  Collapse of a Cavity in Granular Material - Experiment and Modeling
  (Thursday, 10 June, 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm)
• Lou KONDIC, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
  Topology of Force Chains in Dense Granular Materials
  (Monday, 7 June, 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm)
• Jim MCELWAINE, University of Cambridge, UK
  Segregation in Granular Flows
  (Thursday, 10 June, 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm)
• Prabhu NOTT, Indian Institute of Science, India
  The Particle Phase Stress in a Stokesian Suspension
  (Monday, 7 June, 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm)
• Rodrigo SOTO, Universidad de Chile, Chile
  Explosions in Shallow Granular Systems
  (Monday, 7 June, 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm)

Math Biology Minisymposium

• Tom CHOU, University of California (Los Angeles), USA
  Stochastic Inverse Problems
  (Tuesday, 8 June, 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm)
• Shu TAKAGI, The University of Tokyo, Japan
  On the Development of Human Body Simulator for the Next-generation Supercomputer in Japan
  (Tuesday, 8 June, 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
• Louis TAO, Peking University, China
  Dimension Reduction of a Visual Cortical Network Model
  (Tuesday, 8 June, 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm)
• Hien T. TRAN, North Carolina State University, USA
  Nonlinear Filtering and Parameter Estimation for Complex Biological Systems
  (Tuesday, 8 June, 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm)

Numerical Minisymposium

• I-Liang CHERN, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  Exploring Ground States and Excited States of Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensates by Continuation
  Methods
  (Tuesday, 8 June, 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm)
• Yue-Kuen KWOK, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  Efficient Option Pricing Using the Fast Fourier Transforms
  (Tuesday, 8 June, 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm)
• Ming-Chih LAI, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
  Simulating the Dynamics of Inextensible Vesicles by the Penalty Immersed Boundary Method
  (Wednesday, 9 June, 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm)
• Zhilin LI, North Carolina State University, USA
  Numerical Analysis for Incompressible Interfaces in Incompressible Flows Modeled by the NSE Equations
  (Tuesday, 8 June, 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm)
• Tuen Wai NG, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  Exact Meromorphic Solutions of the Falkner-Skan Differential Equation
  (Wednesday, 9 June, 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm)
• Weiwei SUN, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  Mathematical Modeling, Computation and Analysis for Heat and Moisture Transport in Porous
  Textile Materials
  (Tuesday, 8 June, 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm)
• Jinbiao WU, Peking University, China
  Multigrid Method for Nearly Singular Problems
  (Wednesday, 9 June, 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm)

William Benter Prize Minisymposium

• Gang BAO, Michigan State University, USA; Zhejiang University, China
  Inverse Scattering via Far-Field/Near-Field Imaging
  (Tuesday, 8 June, 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm)
• Zhiming CHEN, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  The Uniaxial PML Method for Time-harmonic Acoustic Scattering Problems in Layered Media
  (Wednesday, 9 June, 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm)
• Oliver DORN, University of Manchester, UK
  Level Set Methods for Image Reconstruction
  (Tuesday, 8 June, 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm)
• Josselin GARNIER, Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, France
  Optimal Migration Functional for Sensor Imaging in Noisy Environments
  (Tuesday, 8 June, 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
• Tom HOU, California Institute of Technology, USA
  Model Reduction via a Multi-scale Random Basis Method
  (Monday, 7 June, 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm)
• Peijun LI, Purdue University, USA
  An Inverse Random Source Problem for the Helmholtz Equation
  (Wednesday, 9 June, 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm)
• Di LIU, Michigan State Univeristy, USA
  Numerical Methods for Stochastic Bio-chemical Reacting Networks with Multiple Time Scales
  (Monday, 7 June, 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm)
• Ya Yan LU, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  Some New Numerical Methods for Diraction Gratings
  (Monday, 7 June, 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm)
• Lenya RYZHIK, Stanford University, USA
  KPP Fronts in Inhomogeneous Media
  (Tuesday, 8 June, 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm)
• Ping SHENG, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  Membrane Type Acoustic Metamaterials
  (Monday, 7 June, 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm)
• Knut SOLNA, University of California, Irvine, USA
  Array Imaging in a Noisy Environment
  (Wednesday, 9 June, 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm)
• Chrysoula TSOGKA, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
  Data Filtering for Imaging in Heavy Clutter
  (Tuesday, 8 June, 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm)
• Xiao-Ping WANG, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  Modeling and Simulation of Two Phase Flow on Rough Surface
  (Monday, 7 June, 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm)
• Jack XIN, University of California, Irvine, USA
  Sparsity Induced Convexity in Blind Source Separation
  (Tuesday, 8 June, 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm)
• Hongkai ZHAO, University of California, Irvine, USA
  A New Approximation of Effective Hamiltonian for a Class of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations
  (Monday, 7 June, 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm)
• Haomin ZHOU, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  Intermittent Diffusion and Its Fokker-Planck Equation for Optimizations
  (Monday, 7 June, 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm)

Contributed Talks

• Nadia AL-SAIDI, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
  A Novel Key Agreement Protocol Based on Fractal
  (Friday, 11 June, 1:50 pm - 2:10 pm)
• Josef DIBLIK, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
  Exponential Stability and Estimation of Solutions of Linear Differential Systems of Neutral Type
  with Constant Coefficients
  (Friday, 11 June, 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm)
• Bau-Sen DU, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  On the Existence of Unbounded Scrambled Sets for φ(x) = |1 − 1/x|, x > 0
  (Friday, 11 June, 1:50 pm - 2:10 pm)
• Iddo ELIAZAR, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
  Universal Generation of Fractal Statistics
  (Wednesday, 9 June, 3:30 pm - 3:50 pm)
• Volker ELLING, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
  Existence of Multi-branched Algebraic Vortex Spirals
  (Wednesday, 9 June, 3:30 pm - 3:50 pm)
• Ekaterina GERASIMENKO, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
  Near-front Ray Expansions for Shock Loading Computation
  (Thursday, 10 June, 5:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
• Wenxuan GUO, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  Anomalous Behavior of Multiple Particles Falling through a Funnel
  (Thursday, 10 June, 4:00 pm - 4:20 pm)
• Brian HOPKINS, Saint Peter’s College, USA
  Fair Division and the Symmetric Group
  (Friday, 11 June, 2:10 pm - 2:30 pm)
• Mikhail KOVALYOV, University of Alberta, Canada
  Application of Some Non-dispersive Wave Arising in the Study of Dispersive Systems
  (Wednesday, 9 June, 3:50 pm - 4:10 pm)
• Chun Sing LAU, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  Valuation of CEV American Put Option with Time-dependent Model Parameters
  (Wednesday, 9 June, 4:30 pm - 4:50 pm)
• Anthony W. LEUNG, University of Cincinnati, USA
  Traveling Wave Solutions for a Competitive System of Reaction-Diffusion Equations
  (Wednesday, 9 June, 4:10 pm - 4:30 pm)
• Chi-Fai LO, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  First Passage Time Problem in Tumour Growth
  (Thursday, 10 June, 4:20 pm - 4:40 pm)
• Oana MARIN, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  Corrected Trapezoidal Rules for Singular Functions
  (Friday, 11 June, 2:10 pm - 2:30 pm)
• Oliver NOWAK, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  Towards Multilevel Monte Carlo Methods for Partial Differential Equations with Stochastic Coefficients
  (Wednesday, 9 June, 3:50 pm - 4:10 pm)
• Andriy OLENKO, La Trobe University, Australia
  Asymptotic Properties of Time Series with Seasonal and Cyclical Long Memory
  (Wednesday, 9 June, 4:10 pm - 4:30 pm)
• Marco POLLANEN, Trent University, Canada
  Modeling Drought Option Contracts
  (Thursday, 10 June, 4:40 pm - 5:00 pm)
• Zdenek SKALAK, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
  Large Time Behavior of Solutions to the Navier-Stokes Equations
  (Thursday, 10 June, 4:20 pm - 4:40 pm)
• Zdenek SMARDA, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
  Singular Cauchy Initial Value Problem for Certain Classes of Differential and Integro-differential
  Equations
  (Friday, 11 June, 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm)
• Dmitry TERESHKO, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
  Multiparametric Boundary Control for Boussinesq Model of Heat Convection
  (Thursday, 10 June, 4:40 pm - 5:00 pm)
• Fridolin TING, Lakehead University, Canada
  Multi-Vortex Pinning to Ginzburg-Landau Equations with External Potential
  (Wednesday, 9 June, 4:30 pm - 4:50 pm)
• Li XIE, Lanzhou University, China
  A study on splash function of sand particles by DEM
  (Thursday, 10 June, 4:00 pm - 4:20 pm)

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