Workshop on Patterns in Physics
Description
The study of natural pattern formation is a very broad area. The workshop will focus on selected topics in which new developments in physical sciences, related to pattern forming systems, are motivating or have the potential to motivate new research in PDEs. These topics center around Rayleigh-Bénard convection, wave patterns, reaction-diffusion systems, biological pattern formation including neural models, as well as fronts and interface evolution including atomistic models.
Confirmed Speakers:
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Guenter Ahlers (UCSB) |
Ehud Meron (Ben Gurion) |
Schedule
| 09:15 to 09:40 |
Welcoming Remarks
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| 09:40 to 10:30 |
The Dynamics of Modulated Wave Trains
Arjen Doelman, Korteweg de Vries Institute for Mathematics |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 to 11:50 |
Three-dimensional Wave Patterns Observed at the Sea Surface
Guillemette Caulliez |
| 11:50 to 12:20 |
Computing the Abel Transform
Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington |
| 12:20 to 14:10 |
Lunch
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| 14:10 to 15:00 |
Coherent Structures and One-Dimensional Wave Turbulence
Frédéric Dias |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Qualitative Comparisons Between Physical Experiments of Waves on Deep Water and Perturbed Solutions of NLS
John Carter, Seattle University |
| 15:30 to 15:50 |
Afternoon Tea
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| 15:50 to 16:40 |
Kinetic Theory of Neuronal Networks - Mean-driven vs Fluctuation-driven Dynamics
David Cai, New York University |
| 16:40 to 17:30 |
Vegetation Patterns, Ecosystem Engineers and Species Richness: A Pattern Formation Approach
Ehud Meron, Ben-Gurion University |
| 17:30 to 19:00 |
Welcome Reception
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| 09:10 to 10:00 |
The Mathematics of Coarsening
Robert Kohn, New York University |
| 10:00 to 10:30 |
Coarsening Dynamics of Faceted Crystal Surfaces
Stephen Watson, York University |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 to 11:50 |
Structures of Local Minimizers of a One-Dimensional Higher Order Variational Problem
Aaron Yip, University of Waterloo |
| 11:50 to 12:20 |
Grain Boundary Diffusion due to Stress and Electromigration
Jon Wilkening, University of California Berkeley |
| 12:20 to 14:10 |
Lunch
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| 14:10 to 15:00 |
Microphase Separation in Diblock Copolymer Melts
Rustum Choksi, McGill University |
| 15:00 to 15:50 |
Oscillatory Patterns and Subdiffusion in Granular Segregation Experiments
Stephen Morris, University of Toronto |
| 15:50 to 16:10 |
Afternoon Tea
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| 16:10 to 16:40 |
Dynamics for a Critical-Case Unstable Generalized Thin Film Equation
T. Witelski (Duke) |
| 16:40 to 17:10 |
The Secret Life of Liquid Droplets
Karl Glasner, University of Arizona |
| 17:10 to 17:40 |
Late Stage Interface Dynamics and Renormalization Group Methods
Huseyin Merdan, University of Pittsburgh |
| 09:10 to 10:00 |
Patterns in Molecular, Cellular and Social Systems
Leah Edelstein-Keshet, University of British Columbia |
| 10:00 to 10:30 |
Buckling Cascades in Free Sheets and the Geometry of Wavy Leaves and Flowers
Eran Sharon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 to 11:50 |
Pattern Formation via Scent-Marking
Mark Lewis, University of Alberta |
| 11:50 to 12:20 |
Faraday Wave Pattern Selection via Multi-Frequency Forcing
Chad Topaz, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 12:20 to 14:10 |
Lunch
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| 14:10 to 15:00 |
Fluctuations Near Bifurcations in Spatially Extended Non-Equilibrium Systems
Guenter Ahlers, UCSB |
| 15:00 to 15:50 |
Spike Patterns in the Gray-Scott Model: Equilibria, Stability, and Pulse-Splitting Behavior
Michael Ward, University of British Columbia |
| 15:50 to 16:10 |
Afternoon Tea
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| 16:10 to 17:00 |
Front Explosions in Oscillatory Reaction-Diffusion Systems
Raymond Kapral, University of Toronto |
| 17:00 to 17:30 |
Viscous Entrainment: Creating an Atomic-Sized Liquid Spout
Wendy Zhang |
| 17:30 to 18:00 |
Impulsively Forced Faraday Waves
Anne Catlla, Northwestern University |
| 09:10 to 10:00 |
Defects, Targets and Spirals in Rayleigh-Benard Convection
Eberhard Bodenschatz, Cornell University |
| 10:00 to 10:30 |
Rayleigh-Benard Convection in Large-Aspect-Ratio Domains
Mark Paul |
| 11:00 to 11:50 |
Towards a Classification of Defects in Oscillatory Media
Bjorn Sandstede, Brown University |
| 11:50 to 12:20 |
Multiple Scale Behaviors in Thin Elastic Sheet
Shankar Venkataramani, University of Chicago |
| 12:20 to 14:10 |
Lunch
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| 14:10 to 15:00 |
Pattern Formation on Growing Domains
Philip Maini, University of Oxford |
| 15:00 to 15:50 |
Stabilizing the Benjamin-Feir Instability
Harvey Segur, University of Colorado |
| 15:50 to 16:10 |
Afternoon Tea
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| 16:10 to 17:00 |
Rational Modelling Determines Boundary Conditions
Anthony Roberts |
| 17:00 to 17:30 |
Mean Field Models of Bose-Einstein Condensates: From Instabilities to Waves, from Solitons to Patterns
Panayotis Kevrekidis, UMass, Amherst |
| 17:30 to 18:00 |
An Organizing Center for Tracefiring of Pulses in the Oregonator
Jens Rademacher, University of Hamburg |
| 09:10 to 10:00 |
Global Description of Patterns Far From Onset: A Case Study
Thierry Passot, Université Côte d'Azur |
| 10:00 to 10:30 |
Pattern Formation in a Suspension of Swimming Microorganisms
Matthew Hopkins |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 to 11:30 |
Phyllotactic Patterns on Plants
Patrick Shipman, University of Arizona |
| 11:30 to 12:00 |
Pattern Formation in the Development of Primary Visual Cortex
Peter Thomas, Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
| 12:00 to 14:00 |
Lunch
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| 14:00 to 14:30 |
The Response Dynamics of Neural Oscillator Populations
Jeff Moehlis, UCSB |
| 14:30 to 15:20 |
Near-Hamiltonian Hopf Bifurcation
William Langford, University of Guelph |
| 15:20 to 15:40 |
Afternoon Tea
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