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"First Workshop on Dynamics
and its Applications"
with special emphasis on
Fluid Dynamics and Complex Physicochemical
Systems
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Organizing
Committee:
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V. Baladi, CNRS and IHES,
France
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A. Chamseddine, AUB, CAMS,
Lebanon
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P. Coveney, QMUL, UK
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J. Touma, AUB, CAMS,
Lebanon
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To be Held at the
Center for Advanced Mathematical
Sciences,
American University of Beirut,
Lebanon
October 21-25, 2002
Program Schedule!
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SESSIONS & MINI-COURSES
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SESSION A: FLUID DYNAMICS
(Navier-Stokes, PDEs, Dynamics of Stochastic Flows, Propagation of Oil
Spills, Complex-Turbulent Flows in Pipes)
SESSION B: COMPLEX
PHYSICOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS (NUCLEATION AND CRYSTAL GROWTH)
(Nucleation and Crystal Growth, Inhibition of Scale Formation - with
Applications to Pipes and Pores - Coupled Map Lattices and other Discretisations:
Theory and Applications)
SESSION C : FOUNDATIONS
OF IRREVERSIBILITY
(Derivation of Nonlinear Kinetic Equations from Underlying Time Dynamics
- Construction of Models Linking Micro to Meso to Macro and Applications
via Lattice Gas and Lattice Boltzmann Methods)
MINI-COURSE A: "Introduction
to extended PDE dynamical systems"(Pierre Collet)
MINI-COURSE B: "Nucleation and growth: Introduction to
the Becker-Doering equations" (Jonathan Wattis)
(Students are Welcome to the Mini-Courses)
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LECTURERS
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- Viviane Baladi, CNRS
and IHES, France
- Christian Beck, QMUL,
UK
- Jean Pierre Boon, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Jean Bricmont, Universite
Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Pierre Collet, Ecole Polytechnique, France
- Peter Coveney, QMUL,
UK
- Eirik Flekkoy, University
of Oslo, Norway
- Vadim Kaloshin, MIT,
USA
- Leonid Koralov, Princeton University, USA
- Konstantin Khanin, Cambridge University , UK
- Antti Kupiainen*, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Harry Swinney, University
of Texas at Austin, USA
- Jonathan Wattis, University of Nottingham, UK
* To be confirmed
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PARTICIPATION
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A few slots are open to
lectures by researchers in the field, working
in and around the American University of Beirut. Those wishing to be
considered are encouraged to send title and abstract of proposed talk
to cms1@aub.edu.lb, for review by members of
the organizing committee. Requests sent after the 31st of August 2002
will not be considered.
Workshop participants
are asked to fill out the registration
form.
A limited number of grants for covering travel and local expenses of
participants from developing countries are available.
Deadline for registration and application for grants is on the 31st
of August 2002.
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CONTACTS
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For general enquiries
regarding the workshop please email to:
Viviane Baladi baladi@ihes.fr
Jihad Touma jt00@aub.edu.lb
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SPONSORS
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