Program Schedule

Updated as of 15 Mar 2018

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

12 Mar | 13 Mar | 14 Mar | 15 Mar | 16 Mar

12 Mar (Mon)

Time	Event
08:30	Pick-up at Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East / Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon East by coach
08:30-08:50	Registration
08:50-09:00	Welcoming Remarks Andrew G Cohen (Director of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
09:00-09:45	"Inverse Scattering for the Time Dependent Wave Equation" [Abstract] Fioralba Cakoni (Rutgers University)
09:45-10:30	"Planetary Spectral Rigidity" [Abstract] Maarten de Hoop (Rice University)
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break (Open Area outside IAS4042)
11:00-11:45	"Manifold Learning and an Inverse Problem for a Wave Equation" [Abstract] Matti Lassas (University of Helsinki)
11:45-12:30	"Inverse Problems in General Relativity: the Einstein-Maxwell Equations" [Abstract] Yiran Wang (University of Washington)
12:30-14:30	Lunch (For registered participants only; Venue: China Garden Restaurant)
14:30-15:15	"Robust Tensor Completion" [Abstract] Michael Kwok Po Ng (Hong Kong Baptist University)
15:15-16:00	"Mathematical Modeling of Charge Transfer Process through Semiconductor-electrolyte Interfaces" [Abstract] Kui Ren (The University of Texas at Austin)
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break (Open Area outside IAS4042)
16:30-17:15	"Inverse Shape Problems about the Effective Burning Rate Function in a Turbulent Convection Model" [Abstract] Wenjia Jing (Tsinghua University)
17:30	Return to Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East / Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon East by coach
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13 Mar (Tue)

Time	Event
08:30	Pick-up at Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East / Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon East by coach
09:00-10:00	Keynote Lecture: "PDE Based Approaches to Nonconvex Optimization" [Abstract] Stanley Osher (University of California at Los Angeles; Senior Visiting Fellow of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break (Open Area outside IAS4042)
10:30-11:15	"Approximation of Functions by Composition" [Abstract] Zuowei Shen (National University of Singapore)
11:15-12:00	"Variational Models for Restoration of Turbulence-distorted Images" [Abstract] Ronald Lok Ming Lui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
12:00-14:00	Lunch (Self-arranged)
14:00-14:45	"Lens Rigidity for a Particle in a Yang-Mills Field" [Abstract] Hanming Zhou (University of California at Santa Barbara)
14:45-15:30	"Calderón's Inverse Problem with a Finite Number of Measurements" [Abstract] Giovanni Alberti (University of Genoa)
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break (Open Area outside IAS4042)
16:00-16:45	"A Level Set Based Variational Principal Flow Method for Nonparametric Dimension Reduction on Riemannian Manifolds" [Abstract] Shingyu Leung (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
16:45-17:00	Group Photo Taking (Open Area outside IAS4042)
17:30	Return to Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East / Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon East by coach
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14 Mar (Wed)

Time	Event
08:30	Pick-up at Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East / Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon East by coach
09:00-09:45	"Recent Progress in the Study of 3D Euler Singularity Using a Computer-assisted Proof" [Abstract] Thomas Y Hou (California Institute of Technology; Visiting Professor of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
09:45-10:30	"Inverse Source Scattering for Elasticity Problems" [Abstract] Gang Bao (Zhejiang University)
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break (Open Area outside IAS4042)
11:00-11:45	"Inverse Boundary Problems for Elliptic PDE in Low Regularity Setting" [Abstract] Katya Krupchyk (University of California at Irvine)
11:45-12:30	"Nonparaxial Near-nondiffracting Accelerating Optical Beams" [Abstract] Ting Zhou (Northeastern University)
12:30-14:30	Lunch (Self-arranged)
14:30-15:15	"'Deep Revolution' in Image Restoration and Beyond" [Abstract] Bin Dong (Peking University)
15:15-16:00	"Stability for the Fractional Calderón Problem" [Abstract] Angkana Rueland (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences)
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break (Open Area outside IAS4042)
16:30-17:15	"Thermo-acoustic Tomography with Reflectors" [Abstract] Yang Yang (Michigan State University)
17:30-21:00	Banquet (By Invitation Only; Venue: Sai Kung) *Coach departs from Lo Ka Chung Building at 17:30 and returns at 21:00
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15 Mar (Thu)

Time	Event
08:30	Pick-up at Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East / Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon East by coach
09:00-09:45	"Monotonicity Methods for the Helmholtz Equation" [Abstract] Mikko Salo (University of Jyväskylä)
09:45-10:30	"An Inverse Problem from Bose-Einstein Condensates" [Abstract] Ru-Yu Lai (University of Minnesota)
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break (Open Area outside IAS4042)
11:00-11:45	"Unique Continuation Property for the Isotropic Elasticity System with Rough Coefficients" [Abstract] Jenn-Nan Wang (National Taiwan University)
11:45-12:30	"Plasmonic Resonances and Cloaking in Optics and Elasticity" [Abstract] Hongyu Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University)
12:30-14:30	Lunch (Self-arranged)
14:30-15:15	"Rigidity in Non-convex Manifolds" [Abstract] Leo Tzou (University of Sydney)
15:15-16:00	"Recovering a Riemannian Metric from Least-area Data" [Abstract] Tracey Balehowsky (University of Helsinki)
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break (Open Area outside IAS4042)
16:30-17:15	"Non-Convex Methods for Low-Rank Matrix Reconstruction" [Abstract] Jian-Feng Cai (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
17:30	Return to Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East / Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon East by coach
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16 Mar (Fri)

Time	Event
08:30	Pick-up at Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East / Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon East by coach
09:00-09:45	"The Spectrum of the Neumann Poincare Operators of Planar Domains with Corners" [Abstract] Eric Bonnetier (Université Grenoble Alpes)
09:45-10:30	"Nonlocal Multi-continua Upscaling and Inversion" [Abstract] Eric Tsz Shun Chung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break (Open Area outside IAS4042)
11:00-11:45	"Singularity Helps for Shape Identification" [Abstract] Guang-Hui Hu (Beijing Computational Science Research Center)
11:45-12:30	"Adaptive Finite Element Methods and Their Convergence for Nonlinear Inverse Problems" [Abstract] Jun Zou (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
14:00	Excursion to Victoria Peak *Coach departs from Lo Ka Chung Building at 14:00 and returns at 17:00
14:30	Return to Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East / Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon East by coach
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