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Program

HKIAS International Conference on Mathematical Analysis and its Applications

16 April 2024 (Tuesday)

19:00 – 21:00
Welcome Reception
HKIAS Lounge (LG/F, Academic Exchange Building, City University of Hong Kong)


17 April 2024 (Wednesday)

8:30 – 8:50
Registration
8:50 – 9:00
Opening Ceremony
Chair: Professor Hongyu Liu (Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong)
9:00 – 10:00
On large random matrices and PDE’s
Professor Pierre-Louis Lions (Collège de France, Paris, France)
10:00 – 11:00
Jacobian determinants and degree theory in nonlinear elasticity and its applications
Professor Duvan A. Henao (Universidad de O'Higgins & Center for Mathematical Modelling, Chile)
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30
On the Prandtl’s Boundary Layer Theory for Steady Sink-Type Flows
Professor Zhouping Xin (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break
Chair: Professor Xiaosheng Zhuang (Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong)
14:00 – 15:00
Asymptotic analysis of a thin linearly elastic plate with Norton or Tresca Friction
Professor Oana Iosifescu (University of Montpellier, France)
15:00 – 16:00
What are neural networks good at, what not, and why
Professor Jean-Michel Morel (City University of Hong Kong)
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee Break and Free Discussion


18 April 2024 (Thursday)

8:40 – 9:00
Registration
Chair: Professor Tao Luo (Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong)
9:00 – 10:00
Filling the gap between individual-based evolutionary models and Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Professor Sylvie Méléard (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France)
10:00 – 11:00
Partial Differential Equations of Mixed Type: From the Riemann Problem to the Isometric Embedding Problem
Professor Gui-Qiang G. Chen (University of Oxford, UK)
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30
High order conforming and non-conforming finite elements for the d-dimensional Stokes equation
Professor Stefan Sauter (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break
Chair: Professor Wei Xiang (Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong)
14:00 – 15:00
Existence theorems in nonlinear shell theory
Professor Cristinel Mardare (Sorbonne University, Paris, France)
15:00 – 16:00
Mathematical theories for metamaterials: From condensed matter theory to subwavelength physics
Professor Habib Ammari (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee Break and Free Discussion
18:30 – 21:00
Conference Banquet (CityU Lodge)


HKIAS Distinguished Lecture Series: On some new mathematical models and their applications

19 April 2024 (Friday)

16:00 – 16:30
Light Refreshment
16:30 – 17:30
HKIAS Distinguished Lecture Series: On some new mathematical models and their applications
Professor Pierre-Louis Lions (Collège de France, Paris, France)