The general structure of the Program
August 26, 2003, The first
day
General problems and Control, and focus group: Invariant
and inertial manifolds
August 27, 2003, The second
day
From General problems to Physical, Chemical and Biological
applications
August 28, 2003, The third
day
Near Hydrodynamics, and focus group: Geometry of reduction
in physics
August 29, 2003, The fourth
day
Geometry of reduction (continuation), and Conclusion,
outlook and open problems session
The participants are encouraged to prepare short (up
to 10 min) contributions to the focus groups, open discussion time, and
concluding session. Please, inform us about your short contributions (any
time before the Workshop, or during the Workshop).
The organizing committee
A. Gorban (ETH, Zurich)
I. Karlin (ETH, Zurich)
N. Kazantzis (WPI)
I. Kevrekidis (Princeton)
H.C. Ottinger (ETH, Zurich)
THE PROGRAM
August 26, 2003, The first day
9:00 Registration
9:30-10:00 Tea and coffee
10:00-11:30 First morning session
10:00-10:30
The Central Controlled Dynamics,
Boumediene Hamzi, Wei Kang, Arthur J. Krener
Math Dept., University of California, Davis, CA, USA
ABSTRACT
10:30-11:00
Issues in model reduction of large-scale dynamical systems
Athanasios C. Antoulas
EE and the Applied Math. Department, Rice University,
Houston, Texas, USA
ABSTRACT
11:00-11:30
From Physics to Robust Control of Dissipative Systems
Antonio A. Alonso
Grupo de Enxeñería de Procesos IIM-CSIC,
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Vigo, Galiza, Spain
ABSTRACT
11:30-11:45 Small break
11:45-13:15 Second morning session
11:45-12:15
Fluctuations, Dynamics and Contraction Analysis
B. Erik Ydstie
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
PA, USA
12:15-12:45
Performance Improvement Under Periodic Forcing: The Pi
Criterion Revisited
Costas Kravaris*, Scott
Thompson** and Johannes Schwank**
*Dept. of Chemical Engineering
University of Patras, GREECE
**Dept. of Chemical Engineering,
University of Michigan, USA
ABSTRACT
12:45-13:15
Immersion and invariance: A new tool for stabilization
and adaptive control of nonlinear systems
Alessandro Astolfi*, Romeo Ortega **
*Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Imperial College, UK
**Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, LSS/CNRS/Supélec,
France
ABSTRACT
13:15-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:30
Focus group: Invariant and inertial manifolds
Finite Dimensional Long-term Dynamics of Dissipative Evolution
Equations and Their Reduction Methods
Edriss S. Titi
Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Weizmann Institute of Science
ABSTRACT
Questions, open problems, open discussion (The Organizing Committee cordially asks the participants to prepare some improvisations for this discussion at home)
16:30-16:45 Small break
16:45-17:15
Focus group: Invariant and inertial manifolds
Questions, open problems, open discussion (The Organizing
Committee cordially asks the participants to prepare at home some improvisations
for this discussion at home)
1. Reduction and Coarse-graining, Hans Christian Öttinger
(10 min)
ETH Zurich, Materials Science, Polymer Physics, Zurich,
Switzerland,
2. Spectral projector or Thermodynamic projector, Alexander
N. Gorban (10 min)
ETH Zurich, Materials Science, Polymer Physics, Zurich,
Switzerland,
and ICM RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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17:15-18:00
Initializing At Will: Equation-Free Complex Systems Modeling
Yannis G. Kevrekidis
Chemical Engineering, PACM and Mathematics, Princeton
University
ABSTRACT
18:00-…
Infinite tea in the room MLJ27: With blackboard, reprints,
free discussion.
August 27, 2003, The second day
9:00-9:30 Tea and coffee
9:30-11:00 First morning session
9:30-10:00
Analyses of some commonly-used reduction methods
Tasso J. Kaper
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University,
Boston, MA USA
10:00-10:30
Geometrical Formulation of the Renormalization-group
method with Application to Transport and Stochastic equations
Teiji Kunihiro
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University,
Japan
ABSTRACT
10:30-11:00
Model Reduction for Nonlinear Evolutionary Dynamics
Andreas Degenhard*, Javier Rodriguez Laguna**
*Fakultät für Physik Theoretische Physik Universität
Bielefeld, Germany
**IFT (UAM - CSIC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,
Spain
ABSTRACT
11:00-11:30 Small break
11:30-13:00 Second morning session
11:30-12:00
Coarse-Graining: Theory and Applications
Hans Christian Öttinger
Institut für Polymere, ETH-Zürich
ABSTRACT
12:00-12:30
Local state space reduction of multiscale systems
Sybille Handrock
Technische Universität Chemnitz, Fakultät für
Mathematik, Chemnitz, Germany
ABSTRACT
12:30-13:00
Nonlinear model reduction in multi-time-scale chemical
systems
Prodromos Daoutidis
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 First afternoon session
14:30-15:00
Discrete breathers in nonlinear lattices: a review and
recent results
Tassos Bountis and Jeroen M.Bergamin
Department of Mathematics University of Patras, Greece
ABSTRACT
15:00-15:30
Towards the Multiscale Simulation of Biochemical Networks
Linda Petzold
Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
ABSTRACT
15:30-16:00
Model Reduction in Genetic Control Models
Marc R. Roussel
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of
Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
ABSTRACT
16:00-16:20 Small break
16:20-18:00 Second afternoon session
16:20-16:50
Singular Invariance PDEs for Nonlinear Skew Product Systems
With Application to a Molecular Photodissociation Control Problem
Nikolaos Kazantzis
Department of Chemical Engineering Worcester Polytechnic
Institute Worcester, MA, USA
ABSTRACT
16:50-17:20
Model Reduction for the Optimisation of Large-Scale Chemical
Systems
C. Theodoropoulos, E.L. Ortiz
Dept. of Process Integration, UMIST, Manchester, UK
ABSTRACT
17:20-18:00
General discussion:
(The Organizing Committee cordially asks the participants
to prepare some improvisations for this discussion at home)
19:00 The Conference Dinner (optionally)
August 28, 2003, The third day
9:00-9:30 Tea and coffee
9:30-11:00 First morning session
9:30-10:00
Collapse in Hydrodynamics and Kolmogorov Spectrum
Evgenii Kuznetsov
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russia
ABSTRACT
10:00-10:30
Remarks on the Chapman-Enskog Expansion
Marshall Slemrod
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mathematics Department
Madison, WI, USA
ABSTRACT
10:30-11:00
The methods of Chapman-Enskog and Grad, revisited
Henning Struchtrup
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria,
Victoria, Canada
ABSTRACT
11:00-11:30 Small break
11:30-13:00 Second morning session
11:30-12:00
Minimal kinetic models for hydrodynamics
Ilia Karlin
ETH Zurich, Materials Science, Polymer Physics, Zurich,
Switzerland
12:00-12:30
Challenges for canonical multiscale MD simulation
Ben Leimkuhler
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University
of Leicester, UK
ABSTRACT
12:30-13:00
Macroscopic information from microscopic simulation.
Selected issues
Martin Kröger
ETH Zurich, Materials Science, Polymer Physics, Zurich,
Switzerland
ABSTRACT
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Focus group: Geometry of reduction in physics
1. Reduction of Discrete Systems based on the Renormalization
Group
Method (30 min)
Teiji Kunihiro
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University,
Japan
2.TBA
Alexander V Mikhailov (30 min)
Applied Math. Department, University of Leeds, UK
3. Constructive Methods of Invariant Manifolds for Kinetic
Problems
Alexander Gorban, Ilia Karlin, Andrei Zinovyev (30 min)
ETH Zurich, Materials Science, Polymer Physics, Zurich,
Switzerland,
IHES, France,
Institute of Computational Modeling RAS, Krasnoyarsk,
Russia
ABSTRACT
Questions, open problems, open discussion (The Organizing
Committee cordially asks the participants to prepare some improvisations
for this discussion at home)
16:00-16:20 Small break
16:20-18:00 Focus group: Geometry of reduction in physics
1. Minimal kinetic models (30 min)
Ilia Karlin
ETH Zurich, Materials Science, Polymer Physics, Zurich,
Switzerland,
2.………………………………….
(Here short talks of participants will appear )
Questions, open problems, open discussion (The Organizing Committee cordially asks the participants to prepare some improvisations for this discussion at home)
18:00-…
Infinite tea in the room MLJ27: With blackboard, reprints,
free discussion.
August 29, 2003, The fourth day
9:00-9:30 Tea and coffee
9:30-11:00 First morning session
9:30-10:00
Renormalized lattice Boltzmann for subgrid modeling
Sauro Succi,
Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone"
(C.N.R.)
Rome (ITALY)
10:00-10:30
A Density Matrix Renormalization Group Approach to Non-Equilibrium
Phenomena
Andreas Degenhard*, Javier Rodrguez-Laguna**, Silvia
N. Santalla***
*Fakultät für Physik Theoretische Physik Universität
Bielefeld, Germany
**IFT (UAM - CSIC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,
Spain
***Dto. Fisica, Universidad Carlos III (Spain)
ABSTRACT
10:30-11:00
Geometry of irreversibility,
Alexander Gorban, Ilia Karlin,
ETH Zurich, Materials Science, Polymer Physics, Zurich,
Switzerland,
Institute of Computational Modeling RAS, Krasnoyarsk,
Russia
ABSTRACT
11:00-11:30 Small break
11:30-13:00 Conclusion, outlook and open problems session
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(Here short talks of participants will appear )
Questions, open problems, open discussion (The Organizing Committee cordially asks the participants to prepare some improvisations for this discussion at home)