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I. Monday, 12 July 1999
19:00 - 21:00 Registration at the Lam Woo International
Conference Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University
II. Tuesday, 13 July
8:00 - 9:00 Registration at the Lam Woo International
Conference Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University
A. Chair: B. Hu
9:00 Opening
Dr. C.W. Tse
President & Vice-Chancellor, Hong Kong Baptist University,
Prof. C.F. Ng
Dean, Faculty of Science
Hong Kong Baptist University
Prof. B. Hu
Chairman, Local Organization Committee
9:30 S. Smale (City University of Hong Kong)
"Thoughts on the Historical Development of Dynamics and
Chaos"
10:15 H. Yoshida (National Astronomical Observatory at
Tokyo)
"Justification of Painleve Analysis for Hamiltonian
Systems by Differential Galois Theory"
11:35 Coffee Break - Poster Session 1
11:05 J.A. Yorke (University of Maryland)
"Tracking the Expansiveness of Chaotic Systems"
11:50 G. Casati (Milano University at Como)
"Ergodicity and Relaxation in Quantum Systems"
12:35 Lunch
B. Chair: P.M. Hui
14:00 P. Cvitanovic (Northwestern University)
"Trace Formulas for Classical, Quantum and Stochastic
Chaotic Flows"
14:45 P.M. Koch (SUNY - Stony Brook)
"More about Resonance in Strongly-Driven Hydrogen Atoms"
15:30 Coffee Break - Poster Session 1
16:00 B. Hu (Hong Kong Baptist University and University of
Houston)
"Quantum Frenkel-Kontorova Model"
16:20 H.F. Chau (University of Hong Kong)
"Quantum Cryptography - Why It Is Secure"
16:40 D. Stone (Yale University)
"Classical and Wave Chaos in Asymmetric Optical
Resonators"
17:25 End of day's program
III. Wednesday, 14 July
A. Chair: L.H. Tang
9:00 E. Domany (Weizmann Institute of Science)
"Protein Folding in Contact Map Space"
9:45 B.L. Hao (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
"Grammatical Complexity of Symbolic Sequences: From
Dynamics to Complete Genomes"
10:30 Coffee Break - Poster Session 2
11:00 K.Y. Wong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
"Statistical Dynamics of Batch Learning"
11:20 H. Nakanishi (Kyushu University)
"Pulse Solution of Crack Propagation"
11:40 M. H. Jensen (Nordita)
"A Hierarchical Model for Proteins: Thermodynamics
Critical, and Motor Properties"
12:25 Lunch
B. Chair: K.Y. Wong
14:00 S. Kim (Pohang University of Science & Technology)
"Dynamical Models for Nervous Systems"
14:45 C. Tang (NEC Research Institute)
"Simple Models of Protein Folding Problem"
15:30 Coffee Break - Poster Session 2
16:00 L.H. Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University)
"Modelling Economic Time Series"
16:20 P.M. Hui (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
"Self-Organized Segregation in a Population of Competing
Agents"
16:40 D. Fisher (Harvard University)
"Crack Propagation"
17:25 End of day's program
IV. Thursday, 15 July
A. Chair: C. Tang
9:00 R. MacKay (University of Cambridge)
"Discrete Breathers"
9:45 Y.S. Kivshar (The Australian National University)
"Self-Trapped Beams, Spatial Solitons, and Instabilities
in Nonlinear Optics"
10:30 Coffee Break - Poster Session 3
11:00 S.Y. Chan (City University of Hong Kong)
"Bifurcating Limit Cycles in Quadratic Polynomial
Differential Systems"
11:20 J. Szeftel (Universite de Paris)
"Solitons in One-Dimensional Anharmonic Crystals"
11:40 P. Shukla (Indian Institute of Technology)
"Eigenvalue Correlations for Banded Matrices"
12:00 M. Peyrard (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon)
"Nonlinear Localization in Biomolecules"
12:45 End of day's program
Afternoon is free. A half-day tour"Hong Kong Island"is
arranged by "China Travel Service (HK) Ltd. Participants
can sign up on an individual basis.
19:30 BANQUET
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The conference banquet will be held in the Serenade
Chinese Restaurant, 1/F., Hong King Cultural Centre,
Tsimshatsui.
V. Friday, 16 July
A. Chair: B.L. Hao
9:00 G. Ahlers (University of California)
"Rayleight-Benard Convection at Small Prandtl Numbers in
the Presence of a Coriolis Force"
9:45 E. Ott (University of Maryland)
"Fractals in Fluids: Chaotic Advection of Passive Scalar
and Vector Fields"
10:30 Coffee Break - Poster Session 4
11:00 W. Y. Tam (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
"Cluster Persistence: A Non-Topological Probe of Soap
Froth Dynamics"
11:20 X.T. He (Institute of applied Physics & Computational
Mathematics)
"Pattern Selection and Temporal and Spatiotemporal Chaos
in a Near-integrable Hamiltonian Systems"
11:40 I. Procaccia (Weizmann Institute of Science)
"Disentangling Anisotropy in Turbulence"
12:25 Lunch
B. Chair: W.Y. Tam
14:00 H. Swinney (University of Texas)
"Patterns and Dynamics of Vertically Vibrated Granular
Media"
14:45 G.M. Zaslavsky (Courant Institute of Mathematical Science)
"Multi-Fractional Kinetics of chaos: Renormalization
Approach"
15:30 Coffee Break - Poster Session 4
16:00 K.Q. Xia (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
"An Alternative Measure of the Viscous Boundary Thickness
in Turbulent Convection"
16:20 C.K. Chan (Academia Sincia)
"Surfactant Driven Fingering Instability in a Hele-Shaw
Cell"
16:40 Y. Kuramoto (Kyoto University)
"Spatio-Temporal Chaos with Multiaffinity and
Multifractality"
17:25 Closing