Program Schedule

Updated as of 14 Dec 2017

Venue: IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST

11 Dec | 12 Dec | 13 Dec | 14 Dec | 15 Dec

11 Dec (Mon)

Time Event
08:30-08:50 Registration
08:50-09:00 Opening Remarks
Andrew G Cohen
(Director of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)

James Colliander
(Director of Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences)
09:00-09:45 "Positive Ancient Solutions of the Heat Equation" [Abstract]
Fanghua Lin (New York University)
09:45-10:30 "Singularity Formation and Bubbling in Nonlinear Diffusions" [Abstract]
Manuel del Pino (University of Chile)
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break (Open Area outside the Seminar Room)
10:50-11:35 "Solving Stochastic PDEs via Self-dual Variational Calculus"
Nassif Ghoussoub (The University of British Columbia)
11:35-12:00 "Mathematical Modeling and Analysis for Contact Angle Hysteresis" [Abstract]
Xian-min Xu (The State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
12:00-14:00 Welcome Lunch at Conference Lodge (For registered participants only)
14:00-14:45 "On Incompressible Inviscid Resistive MHD Surface Waves in 2D" [Abstract]
Zhouping Xin (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
14:45-15:30 "Existence and Uniqueness of Green's Function to a Nonlinear Yamabe Problem" [Abstract]
Yanyan Li (Rutgers University)
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break (Open Area outside the Seminar Room)
15:50-16:35 "Deep Neural Networks meets Partial Differential Equations"
Eldad Haber (The University of British Columbia)
16:35-17:00 "Resonant Scattering by Subwavelength Bubbles" [Abstract]
Hai Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

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12 Dec (Tue)

Time Event
09:00-09:45 "Generalized De Giorgi Conjecture in the Isotropic-Nematic Phase Transition" [Abstract]
Pingwen Zhang (Peking University)
09:45-10:30 "Stochastic Averaging for Multiple Scale Models Driven by Fat-tailed Noise" [Abstract]
Rachel Kuske (Georgia Institute of Technology and The University of British Columbia)
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break (Open Area outside the Seminar Room)
10:50-11:35 "Boundary Rigidity and the Local Inverse Problem for the Geodesic X-ray Transform on Tensors" [Abstract]
Andras Vasy (Stanford University)
11:35-12:00 Group Photo Session (Venue: Open Area outside the Seminar Room)
12:00-14:00 Lunch (Self-arranged)
14:00-14:45 "Scattering for Infinite Energy Solutions of the Energy Critical NLS in Three Space Dimensions" [Abstract]
James Colliander (The University of British Columbia)
14:45-15:30 "Nonlocal Modeling, Analysis and Coupling with Local Models" [Abstract]
Qiang Du (Columbia University)
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break (Open Area outside the Seminar Room)
15:50-16:35 "Sharp One Component Regularity for Navier-Stokes" [Abstract]
Zhen Lei (Fudan University)
16:35-17:00 "Dynamics of Energy Critical NLS with Inverse Square Potential" [Abstract]
Kai Yang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
17:00- Banquet (For invited participants only)
Coach departs from Lo Ka Chung Building at 17:15 and returns at 21:00

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13 Dec (Wed)

Time Event
09:00-09:45 "Compactness of Conformally Compact Einstein Manifolds in Dimension 4" [Abstract]
Sun-Yung Alice Chang (Princeton University)
09:45-10:30 "CR Invariant Area Functionals and the CR Yamabe Equation" [Abstract]
Paul C Yang (Princeton University)
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break (Open Area outside the Seminar Room)
10:50-11:35 "A Variational Approach to Regularity for Monge-Amp\'ere" [Abstract]
Felix Otto (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences)
11:35-12:00 "From Kato-Ponce to Nonlocal Fractional Leibniz" [Abstract]
Dong Li (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
12:00-14:00 Lunch (Self-arranged)
14:00-14:45 "The Stability of Periodic Patterns of Localized Spots for Reaction-Diffusion Systems in R2" [Abstract]
Michael Ward (The University of British Columbia)
14:45-15:30 "Finite Morse Index Solutions of the Allen-Cahn Equation" [Abstract]
Kelei Wang (Wuhan University)
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break (Open Area outside the Seminar Room)
15:50-16:35 "Stability of Minkowski Space and the Polyhomogeneity of the Metric" [Abstract]
Peter Hintz (University of California at Berkeley)
16:35-17:00 "On the Isoperimetric Quotient over Scalar-flat Conformal Classes" [Abstract]
Tianling Jin (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

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14 Dec (Thu)

Time Event
09:00-09:45 "Predators-prey Model with Competition: Emergence of Territoriality and Packs" [Abstract]
Henri Berestycki (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
09:45-10:30 "On De Giorgi Conjecture: Fractional Case" [Abstract]
Jun-cheng Wei (The University of British Columbia)
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break (Open Area outside the Seminar Room)
10:50-11:35 "The Kapustin-Witten Equations, Nahm Pole Singularities and Knots" [Abstract]
Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University)
11:35-12:00 "Rigidity of Self-Similar Solutions of Inverse Curvature Flows" [Abstract]
Tsz Ho Fong (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
12:00-14:00 Lunch (Self-arranged)
14:00-14:45 "Hamming Cube: Isoperimetric Problems and Degenerate (Discrete) Monge-Ampère Equation" [Abstract]
Alexander Volberg (Michigan State University)
14:45-15:30 "Modeling Multi-scale Processes in Hydraulic Fracture Propagation" [Abstract]
Anthony Peirce (The University of British Columbia)
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break (Open Area outside the Seminar Room)
15:50-16:35 "The Neumann Problem for Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic Equations" [Abstract]
Xinan Ma (University of Science and Technology of China)
16:35-17:00 "Asymptotic Stability of a Phase-field Model for Two-Phase Compressible fluids in One-Dimensional Space" [Abstract]
Xiaoding Shi (Beijing University of Chemical Technology)

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15 Dec (Fri)

Time Event
09:00-09:45 "Efficient Algorithms for Multiphase Motion by Weighted Mean Curvature"
Selim Esedoglu (University of Michigan)
09:45-10:30 "2D Landau-Lifshitz Equations: Topological Solitons, Singularity (non-)Formation, and Asymptotic Behaviour" [Abstract]
Stephen Gustafson (The University of British Columbia)
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break (Open Area outside the Seminar Room)
10:50-11:35 "On Forward Self-Similar and Discretely Self-Similar Solutions of Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations" [Abstract]
Tai-Peng Tsai (The University of British Columbia)
11:35-12:00 "A Generalized MBO Diffusion Generated Motion for Orthogonal Matrix-valued Fields" [Abstract]
Dong Wang (The University of Utah)
12:30-14:00 IAS Winter Party (For registered participants only)

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