Description: The conference aims to celebrate the life and contributions of the late Professor Shui-Nee Chow at the one-year anniversary of his passing away. This memorial conference will provide a platform for his students, collaborators, and friends from around the world to gather and pay homage to Professor Chow's legacy by discussing the latest progress in dynamical systems and differential equations.

Confirmed Speakers: 

• Peter Bates, Michigan State University
• Eric Carlen, Rutgers University
• Bo Deng, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  
• Hugo Leiva, Yachay-Tech University (Ecuador)
  
• Wuchen Li, University of South Carolina
• Yao Li, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Weishi Liu, Kansas University
  
• Kening Lu, Sichuan University
  
• Sjoerd Lunel, Utrecht University
• John Mallet-Paret, Brown University
• Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutgers University
• Wenxian Shen, Auburn University
• Diana Thomas, West Point
• Erik Van Vleck, Kansas University
  
• Yang Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Guowei Wei, Michigan State University
  
• Yingfei Yi, University of Alberta
• Todd Young, Ohio University
  
• Jim Yorke, University of Maryland
  
• Huaiping Zhu, York University
  

Schedule: (Tentative)

Feb. 17 (Saturday)

8:30-8:50:       Registration

8:50-9:00:       Opening remarks

9:00-9:30:       John Mallet-Paret, The Uniform Shape of Slowly Oscillating Solutions of Delay-Differential Equations

9:30-10:00:     Peter Bates, Is there a Sturmian theory for nonlocal equations?

10:00-10:45:   Break (Group Photo)

10:45-11:15:   Diana Thomas, The Mathematics behind Precision Nutrition

11:15-11:45:   Wenxian Shen, Traveling Waves and Spreading Speeds in Chemotaxis Models with a Logistic Source

11:45-2:00:     Lunch break

2:00-2:30:      Konstantin Mischaikow, Identifying Nonlinear Dynamics from Sparse Data

2:30-3:00:      Yingfei Yi, Response Solutions in Forced Nonlinear Oscillators

3:00-3:06:      Bo Deng, In memory of Shui-Nee: from my first seminar talk to my latest paper

3:06-3:12:      Hugo Leiva, Following the Footsteps of the Unbounded Perturbation of Exponential Dichotomy: Lessons from Dr. Shui-Nee Chow

3:12-3:18:      Guowei Wei, Mathematics in action: from pandemic to drug discovery

3:18-3:24:      Huaiping Zhu, Bifurcations in models for infectious diseases and public health

3:24-4:00:      Break

4:00-4:30:      Eric Carlen, Stability for the logarithmic Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev Inequality with application to the Keller-Segel equation

4:30-5:00:      Yang Wang, Generative Adversarial Nets (GAN)

Feb. 18 (Sunday)

8:30-9:00:      Registration

9:00-9:30:      Jim Yorke, Solving puzzles with friends, a retrospective

9:30-9:36:      Erik Van Vleck, Reduced Order Modeling for Particle Filtering

9:36-9:42:      Weishi Liu, Interplay between permanent charge and boundary conditions on ionic flow

9:42-9:48:      Todd Young, Temporal Clusters Prefer to be Equally Distributed - an example from the Yeast Cell Cycle

9:48-9:54:      Wuchen Li, Calculus of score functions dedicated to Prof. Shui-Nee Chow

9:54-10:00:    Yao Li, Data driven Fokker-Planck equation solvers

10:00-10:30:  Break

10:30-11:00:  Sjoerd Lunel, On invariant measures for delay equations with stochastic negative feedback

11:00-11:30:  Kening Lu, TBA

Here are titles/abstracts for talks.

Venue: Skiles 006

or use the zoom link https://gatech.zoom.us/j/95160236524

Sponsor: The conference is supported by the School of Mathematics at Georgia Tech.

Some useful links:

• GT Stinger bus 8-Clough/Tech Square Route runs between Tech Square and Clough over the weekend.
• GT visitor parking information and parking map.
• Atlanta MARTA system.
  

Questions: please contact: Luca Dieci, Chongchun Zeng, and Haomin Zhou