WORKSHOP PROGRAM

 (40 minutes for talks and 20 minutes for tea/coffee breaks)

 Thursday,  8th June

 Venue:   Lecture Theatre 3

              Level 4

              Academic Building

8:30       Registration and Welcome

9:05      Opening Speech

               by Hui-Hui Dai

              Chairman: J. Engelbrecht

 9:10      Various Nonlinear-wave Views of the Progress of Phase-transition Fronts, 

              by  G. A. Maugin

 9:50      Localization Phenomena in Nonlinear Lattice Models of Solids,

              by T. Kawahara

10:30     Tea break

              Chairman: D. F. Parker

10:50     Solitary Wave Interactions in a Generalized Elastic solids: a Computational Study,

              by H.A. Erbay

11:30     Self-induced transparency and gap solitons in continuum mechanical systems, 

              by  A. P.  Mayer

12:10     Linear and Nonlinear Waves in Nondestructive Characterization of Material Microstructures:
              Some Case Studies and Industrial Applications

              by C.-S.  Man

13:00     Lunch at Western Restaurant, 9th Floor, Amenities Building

              (free for participants)

              Chairman:  G.A. Maugin

14:30     The Mathematics of Nonlinear Waves and Shocks in Hyperelastic Media,

               by A. Jeffrey

15:10     Asymptoically Approximate Model Equations for Nonlinear Dispersive Waves in an
              Incompressible Elastic Rod,

              by Y. Huo   

15:50     Nonlinear Dispersive Waves in a Circular Rod Composed of a Mooney-Rivlin Material,

              by H.-H. Dai

16:30     Tea break

              Chairman: G. W. Hunt

16:50     Simulation and Generation of Strain Solitons in Solids,

              by A. M. Samsonov

17:30     Nonlinear Ultrasonic Beams in Solids Self-Focusing Instability and Stability and 2D Solitons,

               by A. I. Potapov

Friday,  9th June

Venue:    Lecture Theatre 3

                Level 4,

               Academic Building

 9:00      Welcome Speech

              by   Roderick S. C. Wong

              Dean of Faculty of Science and Engineering, CityU

              Director of  Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical Sciences

              Chairman:  Alan Jeffrey

9:10      The Applications of Elliptic and Theta Functions in the Search for Nonlinear Periodic Waves,

              by K. W. Chow

9:50      Smooth and Non-smooth Travelling Waves in a Nonlinear Dispersive Equation,

              by Jibin Li

10:30     Tea break

              Chairman:  A. P. Mayer

10:50     Maxwell Principles in Buckling Problems ,

              by G. W.  Hunt

11:30     Nonlinear Evolution Equations in a Generalized Elastic Solid,

               by S.  Erbay

12:10      Lunch at Western Restaurant, 9th Floor, Amenities Building

               (free for participants)

13:00      Local tour

19:00      Dinner for local tour participants

               (Chinese Restaurant,  8th Floor, Amenities Building)      

Saturday, 10th June

 Venue:   Lecture Theatre 3

                Level 4

                Academic Building

               Chairman: C.-S. Man

8:40        Nonlinear Waves in Microstructured Materials ,

               by J. Engelbrecht

9:20        A Discrete Model of an Extensible String and the Soliton Theory,

               by K. Nishinari

10:00      Integrable Camassa-Holm Equation and Dynamics of Shock Waves ,

               by M.  Pavlov

10:40      Tea break   

                Chairman: T. Kawahara

11:00       A Finite Amplitude Wave Propagation Problem for a Pseduo-Elastic Solid,

                by J. B. Haddow

11:40       Advanced Techniques for Inverse Problems in Wave Propagation,

                by G. R. Liu 

12:20        Head-on Collision between two Solitary Waves in a Compressible Mooney-Rivlin Elastic
                 Rod,

                 by S. Dai

13:00       Lunch at  Exchange Café, Academic Exchange Building

                 (free for participants)    

                Chairman:  H. A. Erbay

14:30       Nonlocal Evolution Equations for Elastic Surface Waves,

                by D. F. Parker

15:10       Double Hopf bifurcations and Chaos of a Nonlinear Vibration System

                by Q. Bi 

15:50       Nonlinear Degree and Partial Stability for Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems and Their
                Applications to Plane Elastic Waves in Hyperelastic Materials

                by D. Kong

16:30       Tea break

                Chairman: J. B. Haddow

16:50       Modulational Instability of Nonlinear Flexural Waves in Prestressed Sandwich Elastic Plates,

                 by  B. Collet

17:30       Wave Dynamics of the 1D Model of Layered Crystal,

                 by I. S. Pavlov

18:10       Solitary Electron Drift Vortices in Semiconductor Piezoelectrics,

                 by  H.A. Shah

19:00       Banquet at Chinese Restaurant, 8th Floor, Amenities Building

                (free for participants and their spouses)

Sunday, 11th June

Venue:   Lecture Theatre 3

              Level 4

              Academic Building

                Chairman: S. Dai

8:40        Nonlinear Strain  Waves in an Elastic Rod Inside a Dissipative External Medium

                by A. V. Porubov

9:20        Multi-mode Steady Waves in a Coated Elastic Half-space ,

                by  Y.B. Fu

10:00       Tea break

                Chairman  A. M. Samsonov

10:20      Some Techniques for General Solutions of Nonlinear Wave Equations ,

                by H.-C. Lei

11:00      Temporal Evolutions and Travelling-wave Solutions for Nonlinear Wave Equations with
                Instability and Dissipation,

                by B.-F. Feng

11:40      Closing Remarks by A. M. Samsonov