Monday 5 September |
| 12:00 | Arrival & Registration |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:45 | Jim Keener (University of Utah, USA)
"The Onset of Calcium Oscillations" |
14:45-15:00 | Intermission |
| 15:00-15:45 | Dirk Helbing (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
"Fluid-dynamic models of discrete traffic and product flows" |
| 15:45-16:15 | Coffee |
| 16:15-17:00 | Panos Kevrekidis (University of Massachusetts, USA)
"What can we learn from discrete models in photorefractive materials and Bose-Einstein condensates ? Some old results, some new results and some future challenges" |
| 17:00-18:30 | Poster session, drinks + nibbles |
| 18:30-19:30 | Steve Sparks (University of Bristol)
"Modelling volcanic processes and hazards" |
Tuesday 6th September |
| 09:30-10:15 | Jim Jenkins (Cornell University, USA)
"The Role of Fluctuations in Theories for Granular Materials" |
| 10:15-11:00 | Basant Sharma (Cornell University, USA)
"Dispersive Continuum Models and Peierls Dislocation" |
| Kenichi Maeda (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
"Micromechanical modelling of granular media with evaluation of microstructures" |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:30-12:15 | Steve Coombes (University of Nottingham)
"Sparks, spikes and bumps in biological networks: from discrete models to localised solutions" |
| 12:15-13:00 | Evgeniy Khain (University of Michigan)
"Dynamics and pattern formation in invasive tumor growth" |
| Tiina Roose (University of Oxford)
"The Tissue Mechanics of Tumour Growth" |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30-15:15 | Alan Bishop (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
"The Short and Long of Complexity in Soft Electronic Matter" |
| 15:15-16:00 | Gero Friesecke (University of Warwick)
"Atomistic potential energy surfaces and solid mechanics" |
| 16:00-16:30 | Tea |
| 16:30-17:15 | Jim McElwaine (University of Cambridge)
"The Transition to Suspension in Granular Flows" |
| 17:15-18:00 | Nico Gray (University of Manchester)
"Granular avalanches, particle-size segregation, shock-waves and pattern formation" |
| Xinjun Cui (University of Manchester)
"Oblique shock waves of granular flows" |
| Daniel Mounty (University of Manchester)
"Granular Segregation in a Rotating Polygonal Drum" |
Wednesday 7th September |
| 09:30-10:15 | Peter Wagner (DLR institute, Germany)
"Macroscopic traffic flow models: glamour and misery" |
| 10:15-11:00 | Eddie Wilson (University of Bristol)
"Connections between wave structures in micro- and macroscopic highway traffic models" |
| Fernando Peruani (Max-Planck Institute and TU-Dresden)
"Orientation-induced instabilities in the collective motion of self-propelled particles: discrete and continuous models" |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:30-12:15 | Mark Alber (University of Notre Dame, USA)
"Three-Dimensional Models of Myxobacteria Aggregation and Morphogenesis" |
| 12:15-13:00 | Keith Hopcraft (University of Nottingham)
"Discrete statistical stability, scale-free distributions and the evolution of the WWW" |
| Gabor Domokos (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
"Discrete state models in chaotic population dynamics" |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30-15:15 | Stefan Luding (Technical University of Delft, Netherlands)
"From discrete system simulations to constitutive continuum theories" |
| 15:15-16:00 | Richard Kerswell (University of Bristol)
"Collapse of Granular Columns" |
| Bob Wieman (University of Bristol)
"Elastoplastic waves in antiplane shear" |
| 19:00 | Conference dinner, Goldney Orangery |
Thursday 8th September |
09:30-10:15 | Erik Van Vleck (University of Kansas, USA)
"Bistable Waves in Discrete Media" |
| 10:15-11:00 | Kostyantyn Blyuss (University of Exeter)
"Master equation approach to the study of phase change processes in data storage media" |
| Marc Oliver Rieger (University of Bath)
"A multiscale model for damage using gradient flows of Young measures" |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:30-12:15 | Alex Mielke (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
"Dynamics of modulated pulses in discrete lattices via the nonlinear Schrödinger equation" |
| 12:15-12:30 | Close |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Thursday afternoon / Friday morning: entertainment and tours of the
Engineering Faculty.
