Program --Workshop on Dynamical Systems and its Applications to Biology

 

* Monday, 24 November, 2003

08:30-09:00

Registration

09:00-09:30

Opening Remarks

Che-Ho Wei, Chairman, National Science Council, Taiwan
Jing Yu, Head of Mathematics Division, NCTS
Song-Sun Lin, Chiao Tung University
Sze-Bi Hsu, Tsing Hua University

Chairman

Song-Sun Lin, Chiao Tung University

09:30-10:20

James A Yorke (University of Maryland)

Modelling the population dynamics of HIV

Tea Time

Chairman

Sze-Bi Hsu, Tsing Hua University

11:00-11:50

Masayasu Mimura (Hiroshima University)

Biological growth system from one point

Lunch

Chairman

Peter W. Bates, Michigan State University

14:00-14:50

Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel (Universiteit Leiden)

To be announced

Tea Time

Chairman

Chih-Wen Shih, Chiao Tung University

15:20-16:10

Hiroshi Kokubu (Kyoto University)

Existence of singularly degenerate heteroclinic cycle in Lorenz-like systems

16:20-17:10

Kening Lu (Michigan State University)

Smooth Conjugacy for Random Dynamical Systems

 

 

* Tuesday, 25 November, 2003

Chairman

Yingfei Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology

09:00-9:50

Peter W. Bates (Michigan State University)

Patterns and Waves for Nonlocal Bistable Equations with Indefinite Interaction

Tea Time

Chairman

Jonq Juang, Chiao Tung University

10:20-11:10

Ying-Cheng Lai (Arizona State University)

Synchronization in complex networks

11:20-12:10

Cheng-Hsiung Hsu (Central University)

On camel-like traveling wave solutions of cellular neural networks

Lunch

Chairman

Kening Lu, Michigan State University

14:00-14:50

Yingfei Yi (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Traveling wave solutions in a tissue interaction model

Tea Time

Chairman

Tai-Chia Lin, Chung Cheng University

15:20-16:10

Hiroe Oka (Ryukoku University)

Conley index theory for slow-fast systems: multi-dimensional slow
manifold

16:20-17:10

Michael Y. Li (University of Alberta)

Global Hopf Bifurcation in a Delayed Nicholson's Blowfly Equation

 

 

* Wednesday, 26 November, 2003

Chairman

Wen-Wei Lin, Tsing Hua University

09:00-09:50

Zhihong Xia (Northwestern University)

Action-minimizing solutions of the n-body problem

Tea Time

Chairman

Cheng-Hsiung Hsu, Central University

10:20-11:10

Chongchun Zeng (University of Virginia)

Schroding maps with strong potentials and ferromagnetism

11:20-12:10

Martijn van Noort (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Invariant tori in Hamiltonian one and a half degree of freedom systems far from integrability.

Lunch

City Tour

 

 

* Thursday, 27 November, 2003

Chairman

Michael Y. Li, University of Alberta

09:00-9:50

Sze-Bi Hsu (Tsing Hua University)

On a mathematical model of the outbreak of SARS

Tea Time

Chairman

Dong-Ho Tsai, Tsing Hua University

10:20-11:10

Ken Palmer (Taiwan University)

Exponential dichotomy and expansivity

11:20-12:10

Kunimochi Sakamoto (Hiroshima University)

Co-existence by using the geometry of domain boundary.

Lunch

Chairman

Kunimochi Sakamoto, Hiroshima University

14:00-14:50

TzyWei Hwang (Kaohsiung Normal University)

Global analysis of predator-prey system with Beddington-DeAngelis type functional response

Tea Time

Chairman

Sze-Bi Hsu, Tsing Hua University

15:20-16:10

Odo Diekmann (Utrecht University)

Dynamics of semelparous populations

16:20-17:10

Paul Waltman (Emory University)

Oscillation in the Chemostat with Variable Yield