Bi-Weekly Colloquium

Mathematical Analysis and its Applications Colloquium
Organized by Prof. Ya Yan Lu and Prof. Roderick S. C. Wong

The Centre organizes a bi-weekly colloquium during each semester to facilitate academic exchanges among staff members and research students, both internally and externally, in a cross-disciplinary manner.

Recent Talks
2020| 2019| 2018| 2017| 2016| 2015| 2014| 2013| 2012| 2011| 2010| 2009| 2008| 2007| 2006| 2005| 2004

2020	Theorems on rational and quasi-interpolation, and applications, using logarithmically monotone radial basis functions Professor Martin Buhmann Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany (27/02/2020) To be Cancelled
2019	Lebesgue points of two-dimensional functions and summability Professor Ferenc Weisz Department of Numerical Analysis, Eötvöts Loránd University (20/9/2019)
2018	Selberg and related integrals Professor Peter Forrester Professor in School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne (29/5/2018)
2017	Numerical Model and Modeling of Ocean Circulation, Ecosystem and Climate Trends in the South China Sea and Hong Kong Waters Professor Jianping Gan Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (7/12/2017) Turning Point Theory and Asymptotics, Old and New Problems Involving Orthogonal Polynomials Professor Mourad Ismail University of Central Florida, USA (23/11/2017) Transonic Shocks and Mixed-Type Equations Professor Zhouping Xin Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (09/11/2017) Numerical integrators for dynamical low-rank approximation Professor Christian Lubich Universität Tübingen, Germany (30/05/2017) Surface instability, bifurcation and variational principle Professor Yichao Chen University of Houston, USA (04/05/2017) Quasi-Interpolation and Wavelets with Generalised Multiquadrics Professor Martin Buhmann Justus-Liebig University, Germany (20/04/2017) An Integral Equation Method for Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography Image Reconstruction Professor Yuesheng Xu School of Data and Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, China (06/04/2017) A Posteriori Error Estimation Techniques for Finite Element Methods Professor Zhiqiang Cai Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, USA (26/03/2017) Sync Professor Ron Chen Chair Professor of Electronic Engineering, Director of Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks, City University of Hong Kong (09/02/2017) Hyperplane Models for Coherent Pattern Detection in Multidimensional Data Professor Hong Yan Dean, College of Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong (19/01/2017)
2016	Nonsmooth, Nonconvex Regularization for Sparse Optimization Professor Xiaojun CHEN Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (01/12/2016) Recent Advances in Mathematical and Numerical Understanding of Inverse Scattering Problems and Applications Professor Jun ZOU Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (17/11/2016) Blind-source identification and decomposition of functions governed by the Adaptive Harmonic Model Prof. Charles K. Chui Department of Statistics, Stanford University Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University (03/11/2016) Nonlinear Asymptotic Stability of the Lane-Emden Solutions for Viscous Gaseous Stars Prof. Tao LUO Professor, Department of Mathematics City University of Hong Kong (20/10/2016) Recent Results on Nonnegative Trigonometric Polynomials Prof. Kwong Man-kam Visiting Chair Professor of Mathematical Computation The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (06/10/2016) Multi-PageRank: Theory and Applications Prof. Michael Ng Head and Chair Professor of the Department of Mathematics, Chair Professor (Affiliate) of Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University (22/09/2016) Symmetry through geometry Prof. Nalini Joshi ARC Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow and Chair of Applied Mathematics, The University of Sydney, Australia Fellow, Australia Academy of Sciences (27/01/2016)
2015	Threshold Spaces for Incompressible Euler Equations Dr. Dong Li University of British Columbia, Canada Recipient of the Coxeter-James Prize (2015) (19/06/2015)
2014	Near-Field Imaging of Rough Surfaces Prof. Peijun Li Purdue University, USA (21/10/2014) Math & Music: Connecting Theory and Practice Prof. Dave Kung St. Mary's College of Maryland, USA Visiting Scholar, Lingnan University, Hong Kong (29/04/2014)
2013	A Convergence Theory for Mesh-free Methods for a Nonlinear Second Order Elliptic Equation Prof. Klaus Böhmer Philipps-University Marburg, Germany (05/11/2013) Heat Kernels, Old and New Prof. Peter Greiner University of Toronto, Canada (16/04/2013) Wavelets, Shearlets, and Mathematical Imaging Dr. Xiaosheng Zhuang City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (12/03/2013) Risk management in asset management Dr. Georgiana Solanet Senior Manager, Head of Market Risk Lloyds TSB plc Bank, Geneva, Switzerland (26/02/2013)
2012	Harmonic Measures and Polynomial Inequalities Professor Vilmos Totik University of Szeged, Hungary and University of South Florida, USA (23/11/2012) PetIGA: High-Performance Isogeometric Analysis Dr. Victor M. Calo King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia (24/10/2012) Noise Attenuation during the Development of Spatial Pattern Dr. Lei Zhang City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (10/10/2012) Geometry and Asymptotics for the Painlevé Equations Professor Nalini Joshi The University of Sydney, Australia (10/09/2012) Reconstruction algorithms in sonic tomography Professor Frank Natterer University of Münster, Germany (03/04/2012) On Classes of Controlled Marketing Models Professor Kurt Helmes Humboldt University, Berlin (20/03/2012) Learning with Delay: the Nonlinear Dynamics Foundation of Subspace Clustering Professor Jianhong Wu York University, Canada (08/03/2011) Moving Frames in Applications Professor Peter J. Olver University of Minnesota, USA (07/02/2012)
2011	The Lagrange method and SAO with bounds on the dual variables Professor M.J.D. Powell University of Cambridge, UK (16/11/2011) A Class of Semilinear Maps, an Algebraic System and Mathematical Modeling Professor Wenying Feng Trent University, Ontario, Canada (19/10/2011) Switching Diffusions and Applications Professor George Yin Wayne State University, USA (04/10/2011) Numerical Methods for Linear and Nonlinear Elliptic Differential Equations and Systems Professor Klaus Böhmer Philipps-University Marburg, Germany (03/05/2011) Gas-kinetic Scheme for the Simulation from Free Molecule to Navier-Stokes Solutions Professor Kun Xu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (19/04/2011) Instabilities in Stress-induced Phase Transitions in Thin/slender SMA Structures Professor H. H. Dai City University of Hong Kong (22/03/2011) Adaptive Fourier Decomposition Professor Tao Qian University of Macau, China (08/03/2011) Towards a Mathematical Foundation of Immunology Professor Stephen Smale City University of Hong Kong (22/02/2011) Numerical Analysis of Volterra Integral Equations Professor Hermann Brunner Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada and Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (25/01/2011)
2010	Energetic Variational Approaches in the Modeling of Ionic Solutions and Ion Channels Professor Chun LIU The Penn State University, USA (15/12/2010) Geometric rigidity of mappings and applications to nonlinear elasticity Professor Cristinel MARDARE University Pierre et Marie Curie, France (08/12//2010) The DiPerna-Lions theory for differential equations with non-smooth coefficients, and its stochastic extension Professor Xicheng ZHANG Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (24/03/2010) Kernel-based Approximation for Well-posed and Ill-posed Problems Professor Benny Y. C. Hon City University of Hong Kong (10/03/2010) An Asymptotic Procedure for High-Frequency Homogenization of Periodic Media Professor Julius Kaplunov Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK (24/02/2010) Beyond Symmetric Broyden for Updating Quadratic Models in Minimization without Derivatives Professor M.J.D. Powell University of Cambridge, U.K.and City University of Hong Kong (10/02/2010) The Immersed Interface Method and Applications for Free Boundary and Moving Immersed Problems Professor Zhilin LI North Carolina State University, USA (27/01/2010)
2009	From Discrete Hodge Theory to Finding Sparse Sensor Covers Professor Ali Jadbabaie University of Pennsylvania (11/12/2009) Cohomology at a Fixed Scale for Metric Spaces Professor Nat Smale University of Utah and Department of Mathematics City University of Hong Kong (25/11/2009) General Analytic Solution of the Elliptic Type Professor Robert Conte Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France (11/11/2009) Rounding Algorithms and Digital Representation Professor Alexander M. Powell Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee (28/10/2009) Ellipticity on Manifolds with Geometric Singularities Professor Bert-Wolfgang Schulze University of Potsdam, Germany (22/4/2009) Mathematical Modeling, Computation and Analysis for Heat and Moisture Transport in Fibrous Materials Professor Wei Wei SUN City University of Hong Kong (25/3/2009) Efficient Numerical Simulation of Photonic Crystal Devices Professor Ya Yan LU City University of Hong Kong (4/3/2009)
2008	Construction and Computational Implementation of Green’s Functions Yuri Melnikov Middle Tennessee State University (2/4/2008) Kernel-Based Meshless Methods for Solving PDEs Robert Schaback University of Göttingen (12/3/2008) Bergman Polynomials on Archipelagos Edward. B. Saff College of Arts and Science Vanderbilt University (27/2/2008)
2007	Global Inverse Piston Problem in Gas Dynamics Ta-Tsien Li Fudan University, China (28/11/2007) Virtual Assistant for Chinese Handwriting Education (VACHE) Howard Leung City University of Hong Kong (14/11/2007) On the Kinematics of the 2+1-Dimensional Motion of a Fibre- Reinforced Fluid. An Integrable Connection Colin Rogers The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (31/10/2007) Properties of Regularization Operators in Learning Theory Andrea Caponnetto City University of Hong Kong (17/10/2007) On Some Applications of Stochastic Calculus in Analysis Nicolas Privault City University of Hong Kong (3/10/2007) Bergman Polynomials on Archipelagos Ron Hui City University of Hong Kong (18/4/2007) Numerical Approximations to Hadamard Finite-part Integral Operators Wei-wei Sun City University of Hong Kong (28/3/2007) Corner Instabilities in Slender Elastic Cylinders: Analytical Solutions and Formation Mechanism Hui-Hui Dai City University of Hong Kong (14/3/2007) Nonlinear Solutions of Plane Couette Flow with and without a System Rotation Masato Nagata Kyoto University (28/2/2007)
2006	Making Sense of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians Carl M. Bender Washington University in St. Louis (22/11/2006) A Dirichlet-to-Neumann Map Approach to Photonic Crystal Modeling Ya Yan Lu City University of Hong Kong (1/11/2006) Drawing of Viscous Threads with Temperature-dependent Viscosity Jonathan Wylie City University of Hong Kong (18/10/2006) Quasicrystals: From 6 Dimensions to Frying Pans Michel A. Van Hove City University of Hong Kong (4/10/2006) High-Order Numerical Methods for Delay Differential and Integral Equations with Variable Delays Hermann Brunner Hong Kong Baptist University and Memorial University of Newfoundland Canada (26/4/2006) Iterative Methods With Inexact Preconditionings and Their Applications to Saddle-point Systems and Electromagnetic Maxwell Equations Jun Zou The Chinese University of Hong Kong (29/3/2006) Nonlinear Singular System Control and Estimator Design: Robust Stability Theory and Applications Daniel Ho City University of Hong Kong (15/2/2006)
2005	Generalized Laguerre Pseudospectral Method For Unbounded Domains Guo Ben-yu Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai Institute for Computational Science (7/12/2005) Mathematical Theory of Hysteresis - An introduction Gérard Tronel Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France (23/11/2005) Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulations of Cod-End Fish Nets and of the Surrounding Flow Roger Lewandowski University of Rennes - France (9/11/2005) Meshless Computation Methods for solving Partial Differential Equations Benny Y.C. Hon City University of Hong Kong (26/10/2005) Fast Numerical Methods for Solving Fredholm Integral Equations Stefan Sauter Institute of Mathematics, University of Zurich (28/9/2005) Spectral Analysis of Jacobi Matrices and Orthogonal Polynomials Mourad E. H. Ismail University of Central Florida, USA (4/5/2005) Minimal Surfaces and Optimal Control Claude Vallée University of Poitiers, France (20/4/2005) Iterative Methods for Waveguide Discontinuity Problems Ya Yan Lu City University of Hong Kong (23/3/2005) Generalized Newton Methods for Semi-Infinite Programs Liqun Qi The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (9/3/2005) On Hidden Integrability in Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics Colin Rogers University of New South Wales, Australia (23/2/2005)
2004	The Uniqueness Problem of the Ground State of Emden Fowler Equations Man Kam Kwong Lucent Techologies Inc., USA (15/12/2004) On "Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum" Peter Greiner University of Toronto, Canada (24/11/2004) Integro-Differential and Differential Equations in the Study of Asymptotics of Ruin Probabilities with Investments Jun Cai University of Waterloo, Canada (17/11/2004) Systems of nonlinear reaction ¨C diffusion equations with symmetric source terms and the history of viral disease Jonathan Wylie City University of Hong Kong (3/11/2004) Moisture Transport in Porous Clothing Assemblies Huang Huaxiong York University, Canada (20/10/2004) On Chemotaxis Models Chen Hua Wuhan University, China (6/10/2004) Ruin Theory: Development and Problems Hailiang Yang The University of Hong Kong (28/4/2004) Approximation Theory of the p-finite Element Method Benqi Guo University of Manitoba, Canada (14/4/2004) Multi-Dimensional Conservation Laws and Transonic Shock Waves Zhouping Xin The Chinese University of Hong Kong (24/3/2004) Teaching Elementary Differential Equations from a Dynamical Systems Viewpoint Robert L Devaney Boston University, USA (10/3/2004) Development of Mathematical Model for Horse Race Wagering William Benter The Advantage Trust, USA (25/2/2004) Localized Resonance Approach to Creating Wave Functional Materials Ping Sheng Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (11/2/2004)