DDAP - Program



  • Monday, 12 July 1999
  • Tuesday, 13 July
  • Wednesday, 14 July
  • Thursday, 15 July
  • Friday, 16 July

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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
    		*******
    		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