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Departmental Distinguished Lecture

24 Thursday Aug 2023
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On nonlinear wave equations with a class of short pulse initial data

ABSTRACT In this talk, we systematically investigate the global smooth solutions or geometric blowup of nonlinear wave equations with a class of short pulse initial data (firstly introduced by D.Ch...
Venue: Y5-305, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
14 Monday Aug 2023
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Democratic Policy Decisions with Decentralized Promises Contingent on Vote Outcome

ABSTRACT We study pre-vote interactions in a committee that enacts a welfare-improving reform through voting....
Venue: Y5-305, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
07 Friday Jul 2023
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Resonant Materials in Inverse Problems

ABSTRACT In the recent years, we witness an increase of interest in drugs delivery, imaging and therapy modalities using contrast agents....
Venue: Y5-305, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
21 Wednesday Jun 2023
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Simple proofs around Navier-Stokes equations

ABSTRACT The goal of this talk is to present a simple proof of existence and uniqueness of the solution of the Leray problem for high viscosities and homogeneous or nonhomogeneous boundary conditio...
Venue: G5-216, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
17 Wednesday May 2023
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Convexification Numerical Method for a Coefficient Inverse Problem for the Riemannian Radiative Transfer Equation

ABSTRACT The convexification method of the presenter is the single numerical method with the global convergence property for coefficient inverse problems with non-overdetermined data....
Venue: Online via Zoom Registration Link: https://cityu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIudOCoqDojEtTSnmFHPxvZSVuBmAmeOPSn
10 Wednesday May 2023
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Multiscale spatiotemporal reconstruction of single-cell genomics data

ABSTRACT Cells make fate decisions in response to dynamic environments, and multicellular structures emerge from multiscale interplays among cells and genes in space and time....
Venue: Y5-305 (Yeung Kin Man Academic Building)
05 Friday May 2023
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Coupling by change of measures for dimension-free Harnack inequality

ABSTRACT The coupling method is a crucial tool in the study of Markov processes....
Venue: Y5-305 (Yeung Kin Man Academic Building)
24 Monday Apr 2023
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Liquid Crystals from a Mathematical Persepective

ABSTRACT Liquid crystals are materials whose properties are intermediate between normal fluids and solid crystal, and have widespread use as the working substance for computer, TV and watch display...
Venue: HKIAS Lecture Theatre, LG/F, Academic Exchange Building, City University of Hong Kong
15 Wednesday Mar 2023
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First order least squares methods for parabolic and instationary Stokes equations

ABSTRACT This presentation will be about the numerical solution of parabolic PDEs....
Venue: Online Zoom Registration Link: https://cityu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtfumhqT4uEtGx6CdoCfmCHskgdJcSxd_p
01 Wednesday Mar 2023
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Uniform controllability of semidiscrete hyperbolic equations via moment problems

ABSTRACT We consider a finite-difference semi-discrete scheme for the approximation of controls of one-dimensional evolution problems of hyperbolic type....
Venue: Online via Zoom Registration link: https://cityu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rdOGprDMjHd1rFQtuCOCe_MinapEerayc