Schedule:
Tuesday, March 23, 1993 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
