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March 31, Friday:

9:30 - 10:15 AM: Registration

10:15 - 10:30 AM: Opening Remarks

Session Chair: Daniel L. Stein, NYU

10:30 - 11:15 AM: How Much Does It Cost...To Turn the Sphere Inside Out?

Tristan Rivière, ETH Zurich

11:15 - 12:00 PM: Advancing Interfaces Found in Laboratory Experiments, from Water to Fire

Jun Zhang, New York University / NYU Shanghai

12:00 - 12:15 PM Group Photo

12:15 - 2:00 PM: Lunch

Session Chair: Fanghua Lin, NYU / NYU Shanghai

2:00 - 2:45 PM: On the Structure of A -Free Measures and Applications

Guido De Philippis, SISSA, Trieste

2:45 - 3:30 PM: Coffee Break

3:30 - 4:15 PM: Existence and Regularity of Multi-Phase Mean Curvature Flow

Yoshihiro Tonegawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology

4:15 - 5:00 PM: The Effect of Diffusion on a Line on Fisher-KPP Propagation

Henri Berestycki, EHESS / PSL REsearch University, Paris

 

April 1, Saturday:

Session Chair: Charles M. Newman, NYU / NYU Shanghai

9:00 - 9:45 AM:  Revisit the Partition Problem of Dirichlet Eigenvalues

Fanghua Lin, New York University / NYU Shanghai

9:45 - 10:15 AM: Nonuniqueness of Weak Solutions to the Nematic Liquid Crystal Flows

Tao Huang, NYU Shanghai

10:15 - 10:45 AM: Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:15 AM:  Sharp Interface Limits for Diffuse Interface Models

Yuning Liu, NYU Shanghai

11:15 - 12:00 PM:  A Threshold Dynamics Method for Interface Motion and  Wetting on Rough Surface

Xiao-Ping Wang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

12:00 - 2:00 PM: Lunch

Session Chair: Dmitry Ioffe, Technion, Haifa

2:00 - 2:45 PM: Ordered vs Disordered Orientation Maps in Primary Visual Cortex

David McLaughlin, New York University / NYU Shanghai

2:45 - 3:15 PM: A Backward Kolmogorov Equation Approach to Compute Means, Moments and Correlations of Path-Dependent Stochastic Dynamical Systems

Laurent Mertz, NYU Shanghai / University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice

3:15 - 4:00 PM: Coffee Break

4:00 - 4:45 PM: Motion of Density Interfaces Induced By Waves and Vortices

Oliver Bühler, New York University

 

April 2, Sunday:

Session Chair: Dayue Chen, Peking University

9:00 - 9:45 AM: Scaling Limits for an Effective Model of Facet Formation

Dmitry Ioffe, Technion, Haifa

9:45 - 10:15 AM: Questions and Results about the Once-reinforced Random Walk

Daniel Kious, NYU Shanghai

10:15 - 10:45 AM: Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:15 AM: The Spectral Measure of the Beta-Ensemble

Raoul Normand, NYU Shanghai

11:15 - 12:00 PM: Glauber Dynamics of the Stochastic Ising Model: Fixation, Coarsening and Beyond

Vladas Sidoravicius, New York University / NYU Shanghai

12:00 - 2:00 PM: Lunch

Session Chair: Zhonggen Su, Zhejiang University

2:00 - 2:45 PM: Reinforced Random Walks and Statistical Physics

Pierre Tarrès, NYU Shanghai / Université Paris IX

2:45 - 3:15 PM: Exponential Decay in Ising Model with External Field

Jianping Jiang, NYU Shanghai

3:15 - 3:30 PM: Closing Remarks