Tuesday, March 23, 1993
|
| 9:00am-5:00pm |
Registration |
Check in with Judy Motts, The Fields Institute Room
3003 |
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
Reception |
Fields Institute Common Room
All participants are welcome to attend |
Wednesday, March 24, 1993
|
| 8:50 - 9:00 |
Jerrold E. Marsden Director, The Fields Institute |
Opening Remarks |
| 9:00 - 9:45 |
Ian Stewart
University of Warwick |
Hidden Symmetries of PDEs |
| 9:50 - 10:15 |
Gunduz Caginalp
University of Pittsburgh |
Distinguished Limits of the Phase field Equations:
Stefan Model and Motion by Mean Curvature |
| 10:15 - 10:35 |
Refreshment Break |
Common Room |
| 10:35 - 11:25 |
Edgar Knobloch
University of California at Berkeley |
Pattern Selection in Three-Dimensional Magnetoconvection |
| 11:30 - 11:55 |
Thomas Clune
University of California at Berkeley |
A Package for Determining Pattern Selection |
| 11:55 - 1:30 |
Lunch |
|
| 1:30 - 3:00 |
Open Discussion Time |
Both seminar rooms (3013 and 3018) and the common
areas are available for informal discussions |
| 3:00 - 3:15 |
Afternoon Tea |
Common Room |
| 3:15 - 4:00 |
Jerrold E. Marsden |
Hamiltonian Structures and Symmetry Breaking |
| 4:05 - 4:30 |
Alex Mahalov
Arizona State University |
Instabilities and Patterns in Viscous Rotating
Pipe Flow |
| 4:35 - 5:00 |
N. Sri Namachchivaya
University of Illinois |
Externally Excited Two Degree of Freedom Coupled Nonlinear
Oscillators
|
Thursday, March 25, 1993
|
| 9:00 - 9:45 |
Bernard Matkowsky
Northwestern University |
Bifurcation, Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation
in Combustion Synthesis of Advanced Materials |
| 9:50 - 10:15 |
Emily Stone
Arizona State University |
Extraction Structure and Dynamics from Complicated
Spatio-Temporal Data: Gorman's Flames |
| 10:15 - 10:35 |
Refreshment Break |
Common Room |
| 10:35 - 11:00 |
Shui-Nee Chow
Georgia Institute of Technology |
Traveling Wave Solutions for Lattice Dynamics |
| 11:05 - 11:30 |
Jinqiao Duan
Cornell University |
Translating Patterns in a Generalized Ginzburg-Landau
Amplitude Equation |
| 11:35 - 12:00 |
Lunch |
|
| 1:30 - 3:00 |
Open Discussion Time |
Both seminar room (3013 and 3018) and the common areas
are available for informal discussions |
| 3:00 - 3:15 |
Afternoon Tea |
Common Room |
| 3:15 - 4:00 |
Robert M. Miura
University of British Columbia |
Application of Temporal Pattern Formation to Rate
of Insulin Release from Pancratic Beta-Cells |
| 4:05 - 4:30 |
Gerhard Cruywagen
University of Washington |
Modeling Traveling Waves of Spatial Patterning
in Morphogenesis |
| 4:35 - 5:00 |
Lynn Trainor
University of Toronto |
Generation on Form in Developmental Biology |
| 6:30 - 7:00 |
Cash Bar |
There will be a dinner at The University Club, University
of Waterloo. There is no cost for speakers and participant. Guests
can attend for $25.00 each, in advance. Advanced Reservations ar
confirmed. Requests recieved after March 19 are subject to availability. |
Friday, March 26, 1993
|
| 9:00 - 9:45 |
Lawrence Mysak
McGill University |
Climate Variability on the Century Time Scale:
Observations and Models |
| 9:50 - 10:15 |
Huijun Yang
University of Chicago |
Chaotic Mixing and Transport in Dynamical Systems
and Simulation of Cloud Pattern |
| 10:15 - 10:35 |
Refreshment Break
|
Common Room |
| 10:20 - 11:00 |
Mei-Man Lee
University of Liverpool |
Numerical Modelling of Mesoscale Eddies in the
Ocean |
| 11:05 - 11:50 |
Richard Peltier
University of Toronto |
Coherent Structure Formation in Three Dimensional
Baroclinic Jets |
| 11:50 |
Lunch |
Free Afternoon
Open discussion, or informal trips to Toronto or Niagara Falls,
assisted by staff coordinator |
| 3:00 - 3:15 |
Afternoon Tea |
Common Room |
Saturday, March 27, 1993
|
| 9:00 - 9:45 |
Stephen Wiggins
California Institute of Technology |
Geometry, Structure, and Transport in Three-Dimensional
Tim-Dependent Fluid Flows |
| 9:50 - 10:15 |
Yannis Kevrekidis
Princeton University |
Waves on Thin Films, on Circular Electrode Surfaces,
on Pt surfaces and in the Shedding Behind a Cylinder: Some Case
Studies |
| 10:15 - 10:35 |
Refreshement Break |
Common Room |
| 10:35 - 11:00 |
Barbara Lee Keyfitz
University of Houston |
Shocks Near the Sonic Line in Unsteady Change of
Type |
| 11:05 - 11:30 |
Suncica Canic
The Fields Institute |
Structural Stability of Viscous Shock Profiles |
| 11:35 - 12:00 |
Swight Barkley
University of Texas |
Spirals, Symmetries, and Instabilities |
| 12:00 - 1:30 |
Lunch |
A Buffet Lunch will be available in the Fields Institute
Common Room. The cost is $8.00 per person, in advance. Advance reservations
are confirmed. Requested recieved after March 18 are subject to
availability. |
| 1:30 - 3:00 |
Open Discussion Time |
Both seminar rooms (3013 and 3018) and the common
areas are available for discussions |
| 3:00 - 3:15 |
Afternoon Tea |
Common Room |
| 3:15 - 4:00 |
Philip Holmes
Cornell University |
Energy Minimization, Dynamics and Microstructure |
| 4:05 - 4:30 |
Lia Bronsard
McMaster University |
On Three-Phase Boundary Mothon and the Singular
Limity of a Vector-Valued Ginzburg-Landau Equation |
| 4:35 - 5:00 |
Erick Van Vleck
Simon Fraser University |
Spatially Discrete Diffusion Efquations and the
Existence of Quad Junctions |
Sunday, March 28, 1993
|
| 9:00 - 9:45 |
Peter Ortoleva
Indiana University |
Bifurcation and Homogenization Problems in Reacting
Porous Media |
| 9:50 - 10:15 |
Anthony Peirce
McMaster University |
Shear and Flutter Instabilities, Microstructure
and Solitons |
| 10:15 - 10:35 |
Refreshment Break |
Common Room |
| 10:35 - 11:20 |
Martin Golubitsky
University of Houston |
Symmetry and Chaos: Patterns on Average |
