Young Mathematicians Conference in PDE and Dynamical Systems

January 31 - February 1, 2004, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Description

The objective of this meeting is to encourage scientific exchange, and to create an opportunity for young mathematicians in an early stage of their career to get to know each other and each other's work.

Plenary Speakers:
Niky Kamran (McGill University)
Adrian Nachman (University of Toronto)

Participants:
M. Agueh (University of British Columbia)
N. Ahmad (University of Toronto)
R. Akila (University of Guelph)
W. Bahsoun (Concordia University)
A. Biryuk (The Fields Institute)
M. Braverman (University of Toronto)
M. Cojocaru (University of Guelph)
F. Colin (Université de Montréal)
D. Gaidashev (University of Toronto)
P. Guyenne (The Fields Institute & McMaster University)
M. Harada (University of Toronto)
Z. Hu (Entrust Inc. & Carleton University)
K. Kang (University of British Columbia)
T. Kolokolnikov (University of British Columbia)
A. Kuznetsov (University of Toronto)
S. Lawi (University of Toronto)
B. Moore (McGill University)
V. Panferov (University of Victoria)
A. Savu (University of Toronto)
D. Slepcev (University of Toronto)
P. Tupper (McGill University)

Schedule

Saturday, January 31st, 2004
10:00 to 10:30	Welcome and Coffee
10:30 to 11:30	Wave Equations in General Relativity Niky Kamran
11:30 to 12:00	Gradient-Flow Structure and Stability of Selfsimilar Solutions of Nonlinear Parabolic PDE's Dejan Slepcev, Carnegie Mellon University
12:00 to 12:30	Wave Turbulence in One-dimensional Models Philippe Guyenne, University of Delaware
12:30 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 14:30	Instabilities of Stripe Solutions in the Two-Dimensional Gray-Scott Model Theodore Kolokolnikov, Dalhousie University
14:30 to 15:00	Hydrodynamic Scaling Limit of the Fourth Order Ginzburg-Landau Model Anamaria Savu, University of Alberta
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee
15:30 to 16:30	Oral Poster Presentations Najma Ahmad, R Akila, Megumi Harada, McMaster University, Zuosheng Hu, Carleton University, Alexey Kuznetsov, York University, Brian E. Moore, McGill University, Vladislav Panferov
16:30 to 17:00	On the Computability of Julia Sets Mark Braverman, Princeton University
17:00 to 17:30	Flows Without Pressure, Geometry and Turbulence Andrei Biryuk, Kuban State University and The Fields Institute
17:30 to 19:30	Dinner, Reception, and Poster Presentations

Sunday, February 1st, 2004
10:00 to 10:30	Welcome and Coffee
10:30 to 11:00	Projected Dynamical Systems: Overview and Recent Developments Alina Carmen Cojocaru, University of Illinois at Chicago
11:00 to 11:30	Ergodicity and Numerical Simulation Paul Tupper, McGill University
11:30 to 12:00	Asymptotic Behavior for Doubly Degenerate Parabolic Equations Martial Agueh
12:00 to 12:30	Decomposition Lemmas Applied to Minimization Problems F. Colin
12:30 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 15:00	Introduction to Inverse Problems in Partial Differential Equations Adrian Nachman, University of Toronto
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee
15:30 to 16:00	On Regularity to the Stokes System and Navier-Stokes Equations Near Boundary Kyungkeun Kang, University of British Columbia
16:00 to 16:30	Renormalization of Isoenergetically Degenerate Hamiltonian Flows Denis Gaidashev, Uppsala University