ICMC Summer Meeting in
Differential Equations - 2006 Chapter
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Written by A. N. Carvalho and H. M. Rodrigues
Organizing Committee:
A. N. Carvalho, A. L. Pereira, H. M. Rodrigues and S. H. M. Soares
Scientific Committee: A. N. Carvalho,
H. M. Rodrigues, J. K. Hale and K. Mischaikow
The Instituto de Ciências
Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC) is an institute
of the Universidade de São Paulo at São
Carlos dedicated to higher education and research on Mathematics and
Computer Science. São Carlos is a city with 210.000 inhabitants,
year long nice weather, average temperatures ranging from 16 to 29,6 degrees
centigrades and average altitude of 856 meters. It is located in the state
of São Paulo, Brazil. The ICMC Summer Meeting in Differential
Equations is held every year at the Department of Mathematics of the
ICMC. It is intended to promote interaction among researchers working
on differential equations at nearby institutions. |
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This meeting always happens during the summer vacation
time on the week that preceeds carnival. This year's meeting was a commemorative
edition of 10 years and was held as posthumous tribute to Dan Henry in
recognition to the great scientific influence that his work has had on
all of us working with infinite dimensional dynamical systems in Brazil.
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Here is
a picture with many of the participants in the gardens of the ICMC. The
weather was fabulous as always. |
The program of the conference
consisted of 15 plenary lectures and 21 additional lectures requiring parallel
sections in the afternoons of the first two days (see
abstracts). The number of participants was close to 80 people exceeding
by much our expectation. Besides Brazilian participants from
all over the country, many researchers from the United States, Spain, Portugal
and Poland attended the meeting. We believe that so many people were here
for the meeting due to the posthumous tribute to Dan Henry. The organizers
were very happy with this surprisingly high number of participants and with
the quality of the lectures presented. The lectures were inspiring
to many of us. In general, the topics covered by the lectures involved qualitative
aspects of solutions of nonlinear differential equations such as 1) existence,
multiplicity and concentration of positive solutions of elliptic systems;
2) blow up, global existence and patterns for parabolic problems with nonlinear
boundary conditions; 3) attractors; 4) existence, stability
and numerical schemes for traveling waves; 5) bifurcation of stationary
solutions; 6) lattice dynamical systems; 7) symmetry of minimizers
in variational problems; 8) vortex dynamics; 9) singularly perturbed delay
equations; 10) soliton solutions; 11) non-holonomic problems; 12) boundary
perturbations and genericity; 13) well posedness for evolutinary problems;
14) discontinuous vector fields; 15) automorphic dynamic; 16) oceanic dynamics
and 17) computational homology applied to nonlinear dynamics. Plenary lectures
were delivered by Jack Hale (Georgia Tech), Konstantin Mischaikow (Georgia
Tech), George Sell (University of Minnesota), Waldyr Muniz Oliva (Universidade
Técnica de Lisboa e Universidade de São Paulo), John Mallet-Paret
(Brown University), Yingfei Yi (Georgia Tech), Carlos Rocha (Universidade
Técnica de Lisboa), Shui-Nee Chow (Georgia Tech), Neus Consul (Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya), José Arrieta (Universidade Complutense
de Madrid), Pavel Sobolevskii (Universidade Federal do Ceará), Djairo
Guedes de Figueiredo (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), Joan Sola-Morales
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Marco Antônio Teixeira
(Universidade Estadual de Campinas) and Orlando Lopes (Universidade Estadual
de Campinas).
The last activity on the morning of
Tuesday 21 was a special section in memory of Dan Henry. During this special
section Jack Hale, Waldyr Oliva, Hildebrando Rodrigues as well as many other
participants from the audience shared some special moments that they had
spent with Dan. It was a very emotional time sprinkled with moments of humor
from the many peculiar stories that people would tell about the very special
character of Dan.
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From
left to right: Hildebrando M. Rodrigues Jack Hale and Waldyr M. Oliva |
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This
picture was taken in Águas de Lindoia (São Paulo, Brazil)
in 1996 during the II Americas Conference in Differential Equations and
Nonlinear Analysis. At that time we were 06 former students of Jack Hale
and Dan was among us. From left to right: José Arrieta, Sérgio
Oliva, Orlando Lopes, Jack Hale, Arnaldo S. Nascimento, Dan Henry and Alexandre
N. Carvalho |
This picture
was taken in the ICMC gardens during the ICMC Summer Meeting in Differential
Equations 2000 Chapter. In the botton row you see, from left to right,
G. Lozada-Cruz, L. Fichman, Dan Henry, Hildebrando M. Rodrigues, Alexandre
N. Carvalho, Jack Hale, Jair S. Santos and Maria Aparecida Bená. |
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From the top clockwise:
José Carlos Fernandes de Oliveira, Luiz Augsto Fernandes de Oliveira,
German Jesus Lozada-Cruz, Sérgio Muniz Oliva Filho, Neus Consul,
Konstantin Mischaikow, Shui-Nee Chow, George Sell, John Mallet-Parret, Yingfei
Yi, Radoslaw Czaja, Antônio Luiz Pereira and Maria do Carmo Carbinato. |
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Sitting from left to right: Yingfei Yi, Radoslaw Czaja, Antônio Luiz Pereira, Maria do Carmo Carbinato, Luiz Augusto de Oliveira and José Carlos de Oliveira | Sitting
from left to right: Waldyr Oliva, Orlando Lopes, Carlos Rocha, Jack Hale and Plácido Táboas |
The conference was sponsored by: | |
Istituto de Ciências
Matemáticas e de Computação, Pro-Reitoria de Pós-Graduação da Universidade de São Paulo Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento à Pesquisa (CNPq) Instituto do Milênio AGIMB. CAPES |