Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Bi-Weekly Colloquium

Mathematical Analysis and its Applications Colloquium
Organized by Prof. Ya Yan LU and Prof. Wei Wei SUN

The Centre organizes a bi-weekly colloquium during each semester to facilitate academic exchanges among staff members and research students, both internally and externally, in a cross-disciplinary manner.

Recent Talks
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2013	Heat Kernels, Old and New Prof. Peter Greiner University of Toronto, Canada (16/04/2013) Wavelets, Shearlets, and Mathematical Imaging Dr. Xiaosheng Zhuang City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (12/03/2013) Risk management in asset management Dr. Georgiana Solanet Senior Manager, Head of Market Risk Lloyds TSB plc Bank, Geneva, Switzerland (26/02/2013)
2012	Harmonic Measures and Polynomial Inequalities Professor Vilmos Totik University of Szeged, Hungary and University of South Florida, USA (23/11/2012) PetIGA: High-Performance Isogeometric Analysis Dr. Victor M. Calo King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia (24/10/2012) Noise Attenuation during the Development of Spatial Pattern Dr. Lei Zhang City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (10/10/2012) Geometry and Asymptotics for the Painlevé Equations Professor Nalini Joshi The University of Sydney, Australia (10/09/2012) Reconstruction algorithms in sonic tomography Professor Frank Natterer University of Münster, Germany (03/04/2012) On Classes of Controlled Marketing Models Professor Kurt Helmes Humboldt University, Berlin (20/03/2012) Learning with Delay: the Nonlinear Dynamics Foundation of Subspace Clustering Professor Jianhong Wu York University, Canada (08/03/2011) Moving Frames in Applications Professor Peter J. Olver University of Minnesota, USA (07/02/2012)
2011	The Lagrange method and SAO with bounds on the dual variables Professor M.J.D. Powell University of Cambridge, UK (16/11/2011) A Class of Semilinear Maps, an Algebraic System and Mathematical Modeling Professor Wenying Feng Trent University, Ontario, Canada (19/10/2011) Switching Diffusions and Applications Professor George Yin Wayne State University, USA (04/10/2011) Numerical Methods for Linear and Nonlinear Elliptic Differential Equations and Systems Professor Klaus Böhmer Philipps-University Marburg, Germany (03/05/2011) Gas-kinetic Scheme for the Simulation from Free Molecule to Navier-Stokes Solutions Professor Kun Xu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (19/04/2011) Instabilities in Stress-induced Phase Transitions in Thin/slender SMA Structures Professor H. H. Dai City University of Hong Kong (22/03/2011) Adaptive Fourier Decomposition Professor Tao Qian University of Macau, China (08/03/2011) Towards a Mathematical Foundation of Immunology Professor Stephen Smale City University of Hong Kong (22/02/2011) Numerical Analysis of Volterra Integral Equations Professor Hermann Brunner Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada and Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (25/01/2011)
2010	Energetic Variational Approaches in the Modeling of Ionic Solutions and Ion Channels Professor Chun LIU The Penn State University, USA (15/12/2010) Geometric rigidity of mappings and applications to nonlinear elasticity Professor Cristinel MARDARE University Pierre et Marie Curie, France (08/12//2010) The DiPerna-Lions theory for differential equations with non-smooth coefficients, and its stochastic extension Professor Xicheng ZHANG Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (24/03/2010) Kernel-based Approximation for Well-posed and Ill-posed Problems Professor Benny Y. C. Hon City University of Hong Kong (10/03/2010) An Asymptotic Procedure for High-Frequency Homogenization of Periodic Media Professor Julius Kaplunov Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK (24/02/2010) Beyond Symmetric Broyden for Updating Quadratic Models in Minimization without Derivatives Professor M.J.D. Powell University of Cambridge, U.K.and City University of Hong Kong (10/02/2010) The Immersed Interface Method and Applications for Free Boundary and Moving Immersed Problems Professor Zhilin LI North Carolina State University, USA (27/01/2010)
2009	From Discrete Hodge Theory to Finding Sparse Sensor Covers Professor Ali Jadbabaie University of Pennsylvania (11/12/2009) Cohomology at a Fixed Scale for Metric Spaces Professor Nat Smale University of Utah and Department of Mathematics City University of Hong Kong (25/11/2009) General Analytic Solution of the Elliptic Type Professor Robert Conte Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France (11/11/2009) Rounding Algorithms and Digital Representation Professor Alexander M. Powell Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee (28/10/2009) Ellipticity on Manifolds with Geometric Singularities Professor Bert-Wolfgang Schulze University of Potsdam, Germany (22/4/2009) Mathematical Modeling, Computation and Analysis for Heat and Moisture Transport in Fibrous Materials Professor Wei Wei SUN City University of Hong Kong (25/3/2009) Efficient Numerical Simulation of Photonic Crystal Devices Professor Ya Yan LU City University of Hong Kong (4/3/2009)
2008	Construction and Computational Implementation of Green’s Functions Yuri Melnikov Middle Tennessee State University (2/4/2008) Kernel-Based Meshless Methods for Solving PDEs Robert Schaback University of Göttingen (12/3/2008) Bergman Polynomials on Archipelagos Edward. B. Saff College of Arts and Science Vanderbilt University (27/2/2008)
2007	Global Inverse Piston Problem in Gas Dynamics Ta-Tsien Li Fudan University, China (28/11/2007) Virtual Assistant for Chinese Handwriting Education (VACHE) Howard Leung City University of Hong Kong (14/11/2007) On the Kinematics of the 2+1-Dimensional Motion of a Fibre- Reinforced Fluid. An Integrable Connection Colin Rogers The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (31/10/2007) Properties of Regularization Operators in Learning Theory Andrea Caponnetto City University of Hong Kong (17/10/2007) On Some Applications of Stochastic Calculus in Analysis Nicolas Privault City University of Hong Kong (3/10/2007) Bergman Polynomials on Archipelagos Ron Hui City University of Hong Kong (18/4/2007) Numerical Approximations to Hadamard Finite-part Integral Operators Wei-wei Sun City University of Hong Kong (28/3/2007) Corner Instabilities in Slender Elastic Cylinders: Analytical Solutions and Formation Mechanism Hui-Hui Dai City University of Hong Kong (14/3/2007) Nonlinear Solutions of Plane Couette Flow with and without a System Rotation Masato Nagata Kyoto University (28/2/2007)
2006	Making Sense of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians Carl M. Bender Washington University in St. Louis (22/11/2006) A Dirichlet-to-Neumann Map Approach to Photonic Crystal Modeling Ya Yan Lu City University of Hong Kong (1/11/2006) Drawing of Viscous Threads with Temperature-dependent Viscosity Jonathan Wylie City University of Hong Kong (18/10/2006) Quasicrystals: From 6 Dimensions to Frying Pans Michel A. Van Hove City University of Hong Kong (4/10/2006) High-Order Numerical Methods for Delay Differential and Integral Equations with Variable Delays Hermann Brunner Hong Kong Baptist University and Memorial University of Newfoundland Canada (26/4/2006) Iterative Methods With Inexact Preconditionings and Their Applications to Saddle-point Systems and Electromagnetic Maxwell Equations Jun Zou The Chinese University of Hong Kong (29/3/2006) Nonlinear Singular System Control and Estimator Design: Robust Stability Theory and Applications Daniel Ho City University of Hong Kong (15/2/2006)
2005	Generalized Laguerre Pseudospectral Method For Unbounded Domains Guo Ben-yu Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai Institute for Computational Science (7/12/2005) Mathematical Theory of Hysteresis - An introduction Gérard Tronel Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France (23/11/2005) Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulations of Cod-End Fish Nets and of the Surrounding Flow Roger Lewandowski University of Rennes - France (9/11/2005) Meshless Computation Methods for solving Partial Differential Equations Benny Y.C. Hon City University of Hong Kong (26/10/2005) Fast Numerical Methods for Solving Fredholm Integral Equations Stefan Sauter Institute of Mathematics, University of Zurich (28/9/2005) Spectral Analysis of Jacobi Matrices and Orthogonal Polynomials Mourad E. H. Ismail University of Central Florida, USA (4/5/2005) Minimal Surfaces and Optimal Control Claude Vallée University of Poitiers, France (20/4/2005) Iterative Methods for Waveguide Discontinuity Problems Ya Yan Lu City University of Hong Kong (23/3/2005) Generalized Newton Methods for Semi-Infinite Programs Liqun Qi The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (9/3/2005) On Hidden Integrability in Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics Colin Rogers University of New South Wales, Australia (23/2/2005)
2004	The Uniqueness Problem of the Ground State of Emden Fowler Equations Man Kam Kwong Lucent Techologies Inc., USA (15/12/2004) On "Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum" Peter Greiner University of Toronto, Canada (24/11/2004) Integro-Differential and Differential Equations in the Study of Asymptotics of Ruin Probabilities with Investments Jun Cai University of Waterloo, Canada (17/11/2004) Systems of nonlinear reaction ¨C diffusion equations with symmetric source terms and the history of viral disease Jonathan Wylie City University of Hong Kong (3/11/2004) Moisture Transport in Porous Clothing Assemblies Huang Huaxiong York University, Canada (20/10/2004) On Chemotaxis Models Chen Hua Wuhan University, China (6/10/2004) Ruin Theory: Development and Problems Hailiang Yang The University of Hong Kong (28/4/2004) Approximation Theory of the p-finite Element Method Benqi Guo University of Manitoba, Canada (14/4/2004) Multi-Dimensional Conservation Laws and Transonic Shock Waves Zhouping Xin The Chinese University of Hong Kong (24/3/2004) Teaching Elementary Differential Equations from a Dynamical Systems Viewpoint Robert L Devaney Boston University, USA (10/3/2004) Development of Mathematical Model for Horse Race Wagering William Benter The Advantage Trust, USA (25/2/2004) Localized Resonance Approach to Creating Wave Functional Materials Ping Sheng Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (11/2/2004)