Objectives

The objectives of the Conference are to review and discuss some of the latest trends in the field of partial differential equations and applications. The conference is dedicated to Professor Philippe G. Ciarlet, Professor emeritus, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, and Chair Professor, City University of Hong Kong, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, in recognition of his mathematical achievements and of his dedication to the mathematical community.

Attendance and Registration

Registration is required for all participants. Presentations are by invitation only. Please fill in the Registration Form, either in MS Word or PDF format, and send it to the Conference Secretariat.

Social Events

Welcome Reception

4 December, 2008 (Thursday evening) start at 6:00 pm
Garden Café
City University of Hong Kong
(Free of charge; open to all conference attendees)

Banquet

7 December, 2008 (Sunday evening) start at 7:00 pm
City Top
9/F, Amenities Building
City University of Hong Kong

Cost: HK$200 per person (Prior registration is required.)

How to get there

City University of Hong Kong

By Airport Express and Mass Transit Railway (MTR)

You can ride on the Airport Express Line from the Airport Station to Tsing Yi Station, and then change to MTR from Tsing Yi Station to Kowloon Tong, where the University is located. The single journey fare of an adult from the Airport Station to Tsing Yi Station is HK$60 and from Tsing Yi Station to Kowloon Tong Station, HK$7.5. Routes and fares can be found at http://www.mtr.com.hk.

By MTR

Get off at Kowloon Tong Station. Follow the signs to City University (Exit C2), which leads to the Festival Walk shopping centre. Go up to Level LG1 and find the escalator next to Shop LG1-10, which will take you to one end of the CityU underpass.

If you take the train that goes directly to Hong Kong from mainland China, you will get off first at the Hung Hom Station. You can then change to the MTR and get off at the Kowloon Tong Station for CityU. If you are coming from the direction of Lo Wu, a concrete bridge will take you into the Festival Walk shopping centre.

By Taxi

Ask the taxi driver to take you to City University of Hong Kong.

If may be helpful to give the Taxi Driver the Address of City University in Chinese.

Visas

Please contact your local travel agent for information regarding visas to Hong Kong. No visas are required for holders of West European, Canadian and American passports.

You may visit the website of the Hong Kong Immigration Department for more information:
http://www.immd.gov.hk/ehtml/hkvisas_4.htm

Organizing Committee

Felipe Cucker (co-chair)
City University of Hong Kong
Roderick S.C. Wong (co-chair)
City University of Hong Kong
Ya-Yan Lu
City University of Hong Kong
Tong Yang
City University of Hong Kong
Ding-Xuan Zhou
City University of Hong Kong

Plenary Speakers (Confirmed)

Stuart S. Antman, University of Maryland, USA

Douglas N. Arnold, University of Minnesota, USA

John M. Ball, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Alain Bensoussan, Université de Paris-Dauphine, France, and University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
Haïm Brezis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France, and Rutgers University, USA

Franco Brezzi, Università di Pavia, Italy

Roland Glowinski, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France, and University of Houston, USA

Ta-tsien Li, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Pierre-Louis Lions, Collège de France, France

Tai-Ping Liu, Stanford University, USA, and Academia Sinica, Taipei

Yvon Maday, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Olivier Pironneau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France

Zhong-ci Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Gilbert Strang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Roger Temam, Université de Paris-Sud, France, and Indiana University, USA

Roderick S.C. Wong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong