PANDA (Patterns, Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications)

Tuesday 3 June 2014

Department of Mathematical Sciences

University of Bath

The second PANDA (Patterns, Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications) meeting of 2014 will be held on Tuesday 3 June 2014 in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath. The meeting is funded by the LMS and forms part of a network involving Bath, Leeds, Nottingham and Surrey.

The morning talks will be of a pedagogical nature and aimed generally at post-docs and research students in applied mathematics.

Programme (incomplete, timings might change):

10.30am COFFEE (4 West cafe)
11.00am Tanniemola Liverpool (Bristol) Synchronization and liquid crystalline order in soft active materials.
12.00pm Sebastian Wieczorek (Exeter) Rate-induced bifurcations: critical rates, non-obvious thresholds, and adaptation failure. Abstract
1.00pm LUNCH
2.30pmClare Perryman (Exeter): Can we adapt to a changing environment? Banded instability thresholds for rate-induced bifurcations. Abstract
3.00pm Wayne Arter (CCFE) Fitting dynamical systems to data - preliminary results using the Ensemble Kalman Filter.
3.30pm COFFEE / TEA
4.00pm Ivan Ovsyannikov (Imperial) An analytic proof of Lorenz-like attractors in continuous and discrete time models. Abstract
4.30pm Gabriela Gomes (Gulbenkian Inst) An organizing centre for serotype competition and vaccine effects in pneumococcus dynamics
5.00pm DISCUSSION AND REFRESHMENTS

The meeting will take place in the Wolfson Lecture Room on level 1 (the ground floor) of building 4 West, in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY. A campus map and travel directions are available.

Funding is available to cover travel expenses of participants, in particular research students who are strongly encouraged to attend and contribute talks. Claim forms will be available on the day.