Dynamics Days Asia-Pacific (DDAP) is one of the four influential and regular international series of conferences on dynamical systems, including Dynamics Days USA, Dynamics Days Europe and Dynamics Days South America. DDAP1 was launched in 1999 by the Centre For Nonlinear Studies (CNS) at Hong Kong Baptist University, and then held subsequently in several Asia-Pacific countries and regions, namely, Hangzhou (DDAP2, 2002), Singapore (DDAP3, 2004), Pohang (DDAP4, 2006), Nara (DDAP5, 2008) and Sydney (DDAP6, 2010), Taipei (DDAP7, 2012) and Chennai (DDAP8, 2014). DDAP9 will return to Hong Kong on December 14-17, 2016, at the Hong Kong Baptist University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers world-wide to Hong Kong to facilitate an interdisciplinary dialog among the different areas in nonlinear dynamics. It also aims at reviewing recent progress in nonlinear science and its applications in physical, biological, neural and social sciences, communicating the latest results and newly established methodologies, and identifying themes and issues for further developments.
Opening remarks
Che Ting Chan (Executive Director of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study)
09:30 - 10:15
Statistical Mechanics of the Phase Transition to Turbulence: Zonal Flows, Ecological Collapse and Extreme Value Statistics
Nigel Goldenfeld (Swanlund Chair and Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
10:15 - 11:00
Predictability of Extreme Rainfall Events via a Complex Network Approach
Jürgen Kurths (Chair of the Research Domain Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
11:00 - 11:20
Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:05
Waddington Landscape, Nonlinear Dynamics and Stem Cells
Chao Tang (Chair Professor of Physics and Systems Biology, Peking University)
12:05 - 12:50
Continuous Attractor Neural Networks: Candidate of Canonical Model for Neural Information Representation
