BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV
DEPARTMENT
OF MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT OF SOLAR ENERGY
AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS FACULTY OF NATURAL SCIENCE BLAUSTEIN
INSTITUTE FOR DESERT RESEARCH
FIFTH NEGEV WORKSHOP ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS
SEDE-BOQER CAMPUS, JUNE 17-21,
2003
Sponsored by:
CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN MATHEMATICS
JACOB
BLAUSTEIN CENTER
FOR SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION
Participants:
E. Ben-Jacob, A. Bruckstein, G. Burde, A. Friedman, J. Fineberg, V. Gol'dshtein,
I. Goldfarb, I. Goldhirsch, A. Golovin, I. Gotz, D. Hilhorst, Sh. Kamin,
N. Liron, B. Matkowsky, B. Meerson, E. Meron, A. Nepomnyashchy, A. Novick-Cohen,
J. Ockendon, M. Primicerio, L. Prigozhin, P. Rosenau, V. Roytburd, J.
Rubinstein, I. Rubinstein, L. Shtilman, Z. Schuss,
Y. Yomdin, G. Wolansky, B. Zaltzman, Y. Zarmi, A. Zemel.
Organizers:
V. Gol’dshtein, I. Rubinstein and B. Zaltzman
Program
Tuesday, June 17
Arrival, hike to Ein-Avdat, informal discussions, dinner.
Wednesday, June 18
11.00 – 11.40 A. Zemel Optimal dynamic irrigation schemes
11.40 – 12.20 G. Burde Lie-Bäcklund groups and asymptotic integrability of
physical systems
12.20 – 13.00 G. Wolansky Mass transportation, Hamilton-Jacobi and Bernoulli
law – A new look at old ideas
13.00 – 13.40 Y. Zarmi Representation of solutions of linear PDE's with
constant
coefficients as superpositions of solutions in lower dimensions
Lunch
15.10 – 16.00 Official Openning of the workshop. Opening address
by A. Vonshak, M. Cohen, V. Gol’dshtein, A. Zemel.
16.00 – 16.40 D. Hilhorst A reaction-diffusion system with fast reversible
reaction
16.40 – 17.20 P. Rosenau Why singularities are good for you, or: On genuinely
nonlinear patterns in dispersive medium
Coffee-Break
17.35 – 18.15 Z. Schuss Calcium dynamics in neuronal dendritic spines and
spine motility
18.15 – 18.55 J. Rubinstein An - constrained quadratic optimization problem
with applications to neural networks
20.30 Cocktail
Thursday, June 19
8.30 – 9.10 A. Friedman Bifurcation problems for free boundary models
9.10 – 9.50 B. Zaltzman Global in time solution to the Keller-Segel model
of chemotaxis
9.50 – 10.30 Sh. Kamin Diffusion equation with variable density decreasing
at infinity
Coffee-Break
10.45 – 11.25 B. Matkowsky Dynamics of hot spots in solid flame propagation
11.25 – 12.05 V. Gol’dshtein Some aspects of multiphase combustion
12.05 – 12.45 I. Goldfarb On pressure driven flames in porous media
12.45 – 13.25 V. Roytburd Asymptotic dynamics and pattern formation for a
free-interface combustion model
Lunch
15.00 – 15.40 A. Nepomnyashchy Instabilities of wavy patterns governed by
coupled Burgers equations
15.40 – 16.20 I. Goldhirsch Elasticity and microelasticity of grain assemblies
16.20 – 17.00 E. Ben-Jacob Generic modeling of bacterial Self organization
Coffee-Break
17.15 – 17.55 J. Fineberg Experimental control of spatio-temporal chaos in
parametrically driven surface waves
17.55 – 18.35 E. Meron Ecosystem Engineers, Landscape Diversity and Species
Richness: A Pattern Formation Approach
Friday, June 20
8.30 – 9.10 T. Nadzieja Global and exploding solutions in a model of self-gravitating
systems
9.10 – 9.50 B. Meerson Hydrodynamics of granular gas: recent achievements
and surprises
9.50 – 10.30 A. Bruckshtein Global optimization via local interactions
Coffee-Break
10.45 – 11.30 Y. Yomdin Semialgebraic Complexity of Functions
11.30 – 12.10 A. Novick-Cohen Nonclassical traveling wave solutions: Coupling
surface diffusion with motion by mean curvature
12.10 – 12.50 A. Golovin Self-organization of quantum dots in thin solid
films
12.50 – 13.40 L. Prigozhin Asymptotic solution of a critical-state problem
in superconductivity
Friday afternoon, June 20 + Saturday, June 21. Open discussions.
Important details:
Breakfast time – 7.30 (the breakfast is offered in the dining room of the
local High School for the guests of Hamburg–house, and in the local Cafeteria
for the guests of the Institute Guest House)
Lunch time – 14.00, location – Cafeteria.
Dinner time – 19.30, location – Cafeteria (except Wednesday and Friday).
Wednesday dinner + Cocktail – 20.30, Lobby of the Institute Guest House
Friday dinner – 20.00, House of Shula and Yair Zarmi
The list is maintained by Boris Zaltzman; E-mail: boris@bgumail.bgu.ac.il