Invited Speakers

Speaker: Prof. Guenter Ahlers (Santa Barbara)
Title: Experiments on Spatio-Temporal Chaos

Speaker: Prof. Giulio Casati (Milan)
Title: Ergodicity and Relaxation in Quantum Systems

Speaker: Prof. Predrag Cvitanovic (Northwestern)
Title: Trace Formulas for Classical, Quantum and Stochastic Chaotic Flows

Speaker: Prof. E. Domany (Weizmann)
Protein Floding in Contact Map Space

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Fisher (Harvard)
Title: Dynamics of Cracks Large and Small

Speaker: Prof. Bai-Lin Hao (Beijing)
Title: Grammatical Complexity of Symbolic Sequences: From Dynamics to Complete Genomes

Speaker: Prof. Mogens H. Jensen (Nordita)
Title: A Hierarchical Model for Proteins: Thermodynamics Critical, and Motor Properties

Speaker: Prof. Seunghwan Kim (Pohang)
Title: Dynamical Models for Nervous Systems

Speaker: Prof. Yuri S. Kivshar (Australia)
Title: Self-Trapped Beams, Spatial Solitions, and Instabilities in Nonlinear Optics

Speaker: Prof. Peter M. Koch (Stony Brook)
Title: More about Resonances in Strongly-driven Hydrogen Atoms

Speaker: Prof. Yoshiki Kuramoto (Kyoto)
Title: Spatio-Temporal Chaos with Multiaffinity and Multifractality

Speaker: Prof. Robert MacKay (Cambridge)
Title: Discrete Breathers

Speaker: Prof. Ed Ott (Maryland)
Title: Fractals in Fluids: Chaotic Advection of Passive Scalar and Vector Fields

Speaker: Prof. Michel Peyrard (ENS-Lyon)
Title: Nonlinear Localization in Biomolecules

Speaker: Prof. Itamar Proccacia (Weizmann)
Title: Anisotropies in Turbulence and their Treatment in Theory and Experiments

Speaker: Prof. Stephen Smale (CityU)
Title: Thoughts on the Historical Development of Dynamics and Chaos

Speaker: Prof. Douglas Stone (Yale)
Title: Classical and Wave Chaos in Asymmetric Optical Resonators

Speaker: Prof. Harry Swinney (Texas)
Title: Patterns and Dynamics of Vertically Vibrated Granular Media

Speaker: Prof. Chao Tang (NEC)
Title: Simple Models of Protein Folding Problem

Speaker: Prof. Shing Tung Yau (Harvard-CUHK)
Title: Estimates for Some Evolution Equations

Speaker: Prof. Jame A. Yorke (Maryland)
Title: Tracking the Expansiveness of Chaotic Systems

Speaker: Prof. George M. Zaslavsky (Courant)
Title: Multi-fractional Kinetics of Chaos: Renormali-zation Approach