International conference on nonlinear partial differential equations

A celebration of Professor Norman Dancer's 70th birthday

Date: 21 – 25 November 2016

Venue: University of New England, Armidale, Australia

Taking advantage of Professor Norman Dancer’s 70th birthday, this conference will bring together leading international researchers on nonlinear partial differential equations, as well as Australian researchers, in particular junior researchers, to report and discuss recent developments, exchange ideas and foster/strengthen collaborations. The conference will focus on new developments in several themes of nonlinear partial differential equations and their applications, especially those on which Prof Dancer has made significant contributions. They include nonlinear elliptic and parabolic equations, the calculus of variations, and applications in physics, biology and geometry.

Conference Program

Timetable and talks are available from the program page. You can download the conference booklet. On Sunday 20 November there is a reception and registration from 18:30–20:30. It is in the Tea room of the Mathematics Building (C26) and includes an informal dinner.

Some Local Information

• Mary White College is about 7km from the airport, and it costs about $20 by taxi, which can be booked on your flight to Armidale before arrival. There is no public transport at the airport.
• A local bus service is provided by Edwards Coaches.
• Interactive Campus Map
• Armidale City Maps

Information about Armidale, including attractions and accommodation can be found visitnsw.com, Armidale Tourism or armidale.info. A limited number of rooms are available on campus at Mary White College. Please contact the college to enquire.

There is also information for visitors to the University of New England.

Social Program

The social program includes a reception, conference dinner and excursion as well as a women's luncheon featuring the Vice-Chancellor and CEO of UNE Professor Annabelle Duncan as special guest.

AMSI sponsorship and travel support

This event is partly sponsored by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI). AMSI allocates a travel allowance annually to each of its member universities.

Students or early career researchers from AMSI member universities without access to a suitable research grant or other source of funding may apply to the Head of Mathematical Sciences for subsidy of travel and accommodation out of the departmental travel allowance, see the travel support website.

List of participants

• Ting-Ying Chang (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Shibing Chen (Australian National University, Australia)
• Joshua Ching (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Michel Chipot^* (University of Zürich, Swizerland)
• Elaine Crooks^* (Swansea University, United Kingdom)
• Florica Cîrstea (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Norman Dancer (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Daniel Daners (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Weiwei Ding (University of New England, Australia)
• Jérôme Droniou^* (Monash University, Australia)
• Yihong Du (University of New England, Australia)
• Massimo Grossi^* (Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
• Changfeng Gui^* (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
• Zongming Guo^* (Henan Normal University, China)
• François Hamel^* (University of Aix Marseille, France)
• Daniel Hauer (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Xijun Hu^* (Shandong University, China)
• Qirui Li (Australian National University, Australia)
• Jiakun Liu^* (University of Wollongong, Australia)
• Yuan Lou^* (Renmin University of China/Ohio State University, USA)
• Julián López-Gómez^* (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
• James McCoy^* (University of Wollongong, Australia)
• Angela Pistoia^* (Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
• Frédéric Robert^* (Université de Lorraine, France)
• Nirav Shah (The University of Queensland, Australia)
• Guido Sweers^* (University of Cologne, Germany)
• Melissa Tacy^* (Australian National University, Australia)
• Tom ter Elst^* (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
• Neil Trudinger^* (Australian National University and University of Wollongong, Australia)
• Leo Tzou^* (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Jérôme Vétois^* (McGill University, Canada)
• Kelei Wang^* (Wuhan University, China)
• Xu-Jia Wang^* (Australian National University, Australia)
• Zhitao Zhang^* (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Zhou Zhang (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Maolin Zhou (University of New England, Australia)

^* invited speakers

Organisers

• Florica Cîrstea (USyd)
• Daniel Daners (USyd, Co-Chair)
• Yihong Du (UNE, Co-Chair)
• Daniel Hauer (USyd)
• Aron Murphy (UNE)
• Shusen Yan (UNE)
• Mrs Kate Daly (UNE, Admin)