UNIVERSITY OF SURREY

An Isaac Newton Institute Satellite Meeting on

Theoretical Aspects of Pattern Formation

19-23 September 2005

Timetable: (Printable Version of the Programme)

Monday 19 September
12:30-14:30
Lunch and Registration
14:30-15:30  Schatz, M (Georgia Tech)
 Transient amplification of rivulets in a thin liquid film: experiment and theory
15:30-16:00
Tea
16:00-17:00  Ashwin, P (Exeter)
  Local and global instabilities of patterns
17:00-18:00  Cross, M (Caltech)
 Pattern formation and dynamics in Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Tuesday 20 September      IAS Seminar
10:00-11:00  Ahlers, G (UCSB)
 The legacy of Henri Bénard and Lord Rayleigh
11:00-11:30  
  Coffee
11:30-12:30  Wayne, CE (Boston)
 Long-time asymptotics and coherent structures in Navier-Stokes flows in R2 and R3
12:30-14:30
Lunch at Wates House
14:30-15:30  Barkley, D (Warwick)
  Pattern formation in turbulent flow
15:30-16:30  Scheel, A (Minneapolis)
 Following coherent structures
16:30-17:00  
  Tea
17:00-18:00  Newell, A (Arizona)
 Patterns on plants
19:00-22:00
Conference Dinner at the Lakeside Restaurant
Wednesday 21 September
09:00-10:00  Knobloch, E (Berkeley)
 Dynamics of nearly inviscid Faraday waves in almost circular containers
10:00-10:30
Coffee
10:30-11:30  Kapral, R (Toronto)
 Spiral waves in chaotic systems
11:30-12:30  Wulff, C (Surrey)
 A Hamiltonian analogue of the meandering transition
12:30-14:30
Lunch at Wates House
14:30-17:30
Poster session
Thursday 22 September
09:00-10:00  Zelik, S (Stuttgart)
  Multipulse structures and Sinai-Bunimovich space-time chaos in dissipative PDEs
10:00-10:30  
  Coffee
10:30-11:30  Uecker, H (Karlsruhe)
 Stability, instability, and transient dynamics in inclined film problems
11:30-12:30  Lamb, J (Imperial)
 On low speed travelling waves of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation
12:30-14:30
Lunch at Wates House
14:30-15:30  Silber, M (Northwestern)
  Controlling Faraday waves with multi-frequency forcing
15:30-16:00  
  Tea
16:00-17:00  Ercolani, N (Arizona)
 Defect formation in convective patterns as seen from variational models with twist
Friday 23 September
09:00-10:00  Riecke, H (Northwestern)
 Complex patterns in non-Boussinesq convection
10:00-10:30  
  Coffee
10:30-11:30  Blömker, D (Aachen)
  Stochastic modulation equations
11:30-12:30  Lega, J (Arizona)
  Dynamics and growth of bacterial colonies
12:30-14:00
Lunch at Wates House


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