IAS Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Program

(Update as of January 11, 2021)

Important Notes:

1) The webtalks should be viewed ONLINE ONLY. Unauthorized recording of any session is prohibited.
2)The online Zoom webinar sessions will be organized during January 11-15, 2021. The Zoom ID with password will be sent to accepted participants by email in due course.
3)Please obtain the consent from the speaker concerned for any adaptation/sharing of his/her presentation materials.

Should you have further enquiries, please feel free to contact the Conference secretariat by email at ias2021iam@ust.hk.

Time (HKT | +8 GMT)
Event
Opening Ceremony
08:30 - 09:00
Welcome remarks
Yang WANG
Vice-President for Institutional Advancement, and Chair Professor of Mathematics, HKUST
Andrew G. COHEN
Director of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, Acting Dean of Science, and Lam Woo Foundation Professor, HKUST
Session M-1
Chair: Xiaoping WANG (HKUST)
09:00 - 09:45
Webtalk #M-01: Deciphering Phase Transitions between Periodic and Quasiperiodic Structures
Pingwen ZHANG
Peking University
09:45 - 10:30
Webtalk #M-02: Helical Swimming and Helical Buckling – Elastohydrodynamics at the Microscale
Lisa J. FAUCI
Tulane University
10:30 - 10:45
Break
Session M-2
Chair: Defeng SUN (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
10:45 - 11:30
Webtalk #M-03: Free Interface Problems for the Incompressible Inviscid Resistive MHD
Zhouping XIN
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
11:30 - 12:15
Webtalk #M-04: De Giorgi Argument for L Solution to the Boltzmann Equation without Angular Cutoff
Tong YANG
City University of Hong Kong
12:15 - 16:30
Break
Session M-3
Chair: Raymond CHAN (City University of Hong Kong)
16:30 - 17:15
Webtalk #M-05: Mathematical Modeling of Traffic Flow
Helge HOLDEN
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
17:15 - 18:00
Webtalk #M-06: Digital Twins at the Interface between Modeling, Measurements and Machine Learning
Jan S. HESTHAVEN
L'École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Time (HKT | +8 GMT)
Event
Session Tu-1
Chair: Xuecheng TAI (Hong Kong Baptist University)
09:00 - 09:45
Webtalk #Tu-01: Numerical Methods and Analysis for Phase Field Models
Tao TANG
Southern University of Science and Technology
09:45 - 10:30
Webtalk #Tu-02: Numerical Integrators for Learning Dynamics
Qiang DU
Columbia University
10:30 - 10:45
Break
Session Tu-2
Chair: Tiezheng QIAN (HKUST)
10:45 - 11:30
Webtalk #Tu-03: Reduced Order Modeling for Linear Feedback Control Problems for Target Velocity Matching Problem via POD and LSTM
Hyung-Chun LEE
Ajou University
11:30 - 12:15
Webtalk #Tu-04: Nonsmooth Nonconvex Optimization in Deep Learning
Xiaojun CHEN
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
12:15 - 16:30
Break
Session Tu-3
Chair: Xiaoming YUAN (The University of Hong Kong)
16:30 - 17:15
Webtalk #Tu-05: Numerical Verification of the Existence of Subharmonic Solutions for Forced Nonlinear Delay Differential Equation Describing El Nino Phenomena
Shini’chi OISHI
Waseda University
17:15 - 18:00
Webtalk #Tu-06: Faster Lagrangian-Based Methods in Convex Optimization
Marc TEBOULLE
Tel Aviv University
Time (HKT | +8 GMT)
Event
Session W-1
Chair: Jun ZOU (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
09:00 - 09:45
Webtalk #W-01: Asymptotic Behaviors of Global Solutions to the 2D Non-Resistive MHD Flow
Song JIANG
Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM), Beijing
09:45 - 10:30
Webtalk #W-02: Inverse Scattering by a Random Periodic Structure
Gang BAO
Zhejiang University
10:30 - 10:45
Break
Session W-2
Chair: Ronald Lok Ming LUI (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
10:45 - 11:30
Webtalk #W-03: New Developments in Reaction-Diffusion Systems
Juncheng WEI
University of British Columbia
11:30 - 12:15
Webtalk #W-04: Local and Global Geometric Structures of Transmission Eigenfunctions and Applications
Hongyu LIU
City University of Hong Kong
12:15 - 16:30
Break
Session W-3
Chair: Yanping LIN (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
16:30 - 17:15
Webtalk #W-05: Optimization with Learning-Informed Differential Equation Constraints and its Applications
Michael HINTERMÜLLER
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
17:15 - 18:00
Webtalk #W-06: On Global Stabilization of the Viscous Burgers' Equation by Nonlinear Neumann Feedback Control Laws: Theoretical and Computational Studies
Amiya Kumar PANI
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Time (HKT | +8 GMT)
Event
Session Th-1
Chair: Alfred CHEUNG (NeoUnion and HKUST)
09:00 - 09:45
Webtalk #Th-01: Optimization Landscape for Learning with Deep Neural Networks
Tong ZHANG
HKUST
09:45 - 10:30
Webtalk #Th-02: Adaptations to Sample Efficient Kernel-Based Bayesian Optimization for Practical Applications
Michael MCCOURT
SigOpt, an Intel company
10:30 - 10:45
Break
Session Th-2
Chair: Zhonghua QIAO (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
10:45 - 11:30
Webtalk #Th-03: Optimizations in Portfolio Allocation and Trading
Peipei YAO
Macquarie Bank Limited
11:30 - 12:15
Webtalk #Th-04: Making Big Data Smaller: Lossless Data Compression in the Age of AI
Jie SUN
2012 Labs of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
12:15 - 16:30
Break
Session Th-3
Chair: Yang XIANG (HKUST)
16:30 - 17:15
Webtalk #Th-05: B-Spline-Based Monotone Multigrid Methods for the Valuation of American Options
Angela KUNOTH
University of Cologne
17:15 - 18:00
Webtalk #Th-06: A Robust Discontinuous Galerkin Scheme on Anisotropic Meshes
Takuya TSUCHIYA
Ehime University
Time (HKT | +8 GMT)
Event
Session F-1
Chair: Michael NG (The University of Hong Kong)
09:00 - 09:45
Webtalk #F-01: Inverse Problems for Nonlinear Equations
Gunther UHLMANN
University of Washington and HKUST (IAS Si Yuan Professor)
09:45 - 10:30
Webtalk #F-02: Theory of Deep Learning
Dingxuan ZHOU
City University of Hong Kong
10:30 - 10:45
Break
Session F-2
Chair: Dingxuan ZHOU (City University of Hong Kong)
10:45 - 11:30
Webtalk #F-03: Exploring the Data and Solution Sparsity in Large Scale Optimization Problems
Defeng SUN
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
11:30 - 12:15
Webtalk #F-04: Nonnegative Low Rank Matrix Approximation and its Applications
Michael NG
The University of Hong Kong
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