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December
17-20, Hunan University, Changsha, P.R. China |
New Directions In Dynamics of Evolution
Equations
An International Conference In Honor of
Professor Shui-Nee Chow
Communicated by Meirong Zhang, Tsinghua University
(China)
An international conference "New Directions In Dynamics of
Evolution Equations" was held in December 17-20, 2003, at Hunan
University, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China. This
conference was in honor of professor Shui-Nee Chow of Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, on the occasion of his 60th
birthday, for his scientific achievements and leadership in dynamical
systems and nonlinear analysis (see below for a brief CV of
Dr. Shui-Nee Chow). The conference is the fourth international
conference in honoring Professor Chow's 60th birthday. The other three were the ``5th Americas Conference on Differential Equations and Nonlinear
Analysis" held in Edmonton, Canada, July 7-12, 2002, the ``International
Conference on Bifurcation and Chaos" held in Kunming, China,
August 13-17, 2002, and the ``International Workshop on Dynamical
Systems and its Applications to Biology" held in Hsinchu, Taiwan,
November 24-27, 2003.
The Hunan conference was aimed at (i) acknowledging
Professor Chow's consistent and dedicated help and support to
Chinese mathematicians in these and related areas; (ii)
providing a forum on future directions of dynamics and evolution
equations among experts with different expertise, from different
regions and belonging to different age groups. There were 87
registered participants from 5 countries, 40 of whom were
invited speakers lecturing on a wide range of topis in these
areas. A poster session was organized and was especially welcomed
by the graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and young faculty
members. The short panel discussion session on the last day of the
conference was particularly well received, during which, experts
such as Peter Bates, Shui-Nee Chow, Jifa Jiang, Tibor Krizstin,
Yiming Long, Yoshihisa Morita, James Muldowney, and George Sell
either provided some very helpful and valuable comments and
suggestions on research to the young researchers or contributed some
very interesting and challenging problems.
The conference was supported by Hunan University, the National
Natural Sciences Foundation of China, and the Ministry of
Education of China.
Brief Curriculum Vitae
of
Dr. Shui-Nee Chow
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| Dr. Shui-Nee Chow at the Changsha
Conference. |
Shui-Nee Chow, born on July 13, 1943 in Shanghai, China, is
currently a professor at the School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. He received his B.Sc. in Mathematics in 1965 from the
University of Singapore and
his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1970 from the University of Maryland, USA.
Shui-Nee Chow has worked as a professor at several universities, in
particular at Michigan State University, Georgia Institute of
Technology, and the National University of Singapore. He was a
Distinguished professor at Michigan State University (1987-1991),
Director of the Center for Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Studies
at Georgia Tech (1988-1989), Director/Chair of the School of
Mathematics at Georgia Tech (1989-1998), Head of the Department of
Computational Science and Deputy Director of Research at the National
University of Singapore (1998-1999), Dean of Research and Graduate
Studies at the National University of Singapore (1999-2001), and
Acting Director of the Logistic Institute Asian Pacific in Singapore
(2001). To date, he has supervised 31 Ph.D. students and published
more than 130 papers in refereed mathematical and non-mathematical
journals.
Shui-Nee Chow has served on many committees, for example, he was
panel member for the Presidential Young Investigator Award (1988),
National Advisory Committee, NSF (1989, 1990, 1991), NSF Young
Investigator Award (1993), AMS-SIAM Committee on Applied Mathematics
(1994/97), and he acted as Chair of SIAM Activity Group in Dynamical
Systems (1997-99).
Current fields of interest
Differential Equations and Nonlinear Dynamics.
Books and Edited Proceedings
- Methods of Bifurcation Theory (with Jack K. Hale),
Grundlehren 251, Springer-Verlag, 1982, 515 pages.
- Dynamics of Infinite Dimensional Systems (edited with Jack
Hale), NATO ASI Series F, Vol. 37, Springer-Verlag, 1987, 528
pages.
- Normal Forms and Bifurcation of Planar Vector Fields (with
C. Li and D. Wang), Cambridge University Press, 1994, 472 pages.
- Differential Equations and Applications, Proceedings of the
US-Chinese Conference held in Hangzhou, June 24-29, 1996 (edited with
P. W. Bates, K. Lu and X. Pan), International Press, Cambridge, MA,
1996, 363 pages.
- Bifurcation Theory and its Numerical Analysis, Proceedings
of the 2nd International Conference held in Xi'an, June 26-July 3,
1998 (edited with Zhangxin Chen and Kaitai Li), Springer-Verlag,
Singapore, 1999, 227 pages.
Honors, Awards, or Recognitions
Distinguished Professor in Mathematics, Michigan State University.
Honorary Professor of Peking University, Fudan University, Yunnan
University, Zhejiang University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Sichuan
University.
National Technology Award, Singapore, 2001.
Editorial Work
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Differential Equations.
Member of Editorial Board of the following journals:
- Dynamics Reported
- Dynamics and Differential Equations
- Dynamic Systems and Applications
- International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
- Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
- Discrete and Continuous Dynamic Systems
- Dynamics of Continuous Discrete and Impulse Systems
- Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics
- International Journal of Differential Equations and Applications
- International Journal of Computational Engineering Science
- Annals of Differential Equations
- Advanced Nonlinear Studies