Palestinian Conference on Modern Trends in Mathematics and Physics
Place & date
Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine; 28-30 July 2008
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Organizing Committee
Henry Jaqaman (Birzeit U), Chairperson; Mohammad Saleh (Birzeit U);
Tahseen Mughrabi (Al-Quds U); Sami Jaber (An-Najah N U); Ibrahim Masri (PPU);
Aziz Shawabkeh (Birzeit U); Ayman Haj-Daoud (Pal. Academy)
International Scientific Committee
Saber Elaydi (Trinity U, USA); Ulrich Eckern (Augsburg U, Germany);
Annick Suzor-Weiner (Paris-Sud 11, France); Edriss Titi (UC Irvine, USA)
10:00 - Jim Cushing (University of Arizona, Tucson) - Population dynamics:
a bifurcation theory approach
10:40 - Alberto Pinto (University of Minho) - Patents in new technologies
11:40 - Henrique Oliveira (Technical University of Lisbon) - Synchronization
of Andronov clocks
12:10 - Hüseyin Kocak (University of Miami, Coral Gables) - Degenerate
tori as transport barriers
12:40 - Luis Vieira (University of Porto) - Difference equations and the
spectra of a family of strongly regular graphs
12:55 - Rui Goncalves (University of Porto) - Universal fluctuations
of the Wolf's sunspot numbers
17:00 - Daoud Bshouty (Technion, Haifa) - Harmonic mappings in the plane:
harmonicity versus analyticity
17:30 - Lance L. Littlejohn (Baylor University, Baco) - Left-definite
operator theory
18:00 - Gerry Ladas (University of Rhode Island, Kingston) - Open problems
and conjectures in difference equations
Tuesday, July 29
09:00 - Michael Berry (Bristol University) - Tsunami asymptotics
09:40 - Yousef Salamin (American University of Sharjah) - Laser acceleration
of bare nuclei for cancer therapy
10:10 - Jacques Miltat (Universite Paris-Sud 11) - Spin transfer and
micromagnetics
11:10 - Roberto Raimondi (Universita di Roma Tre) - Physical conditions for
the spin-Hall effect
11:40 - John Weiner (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) - Light-matter
interaction at the nanoscale
12:10 - Peter Coveney (University College, London) - Novel computational
methods for turbulence
17:00 - Ferdinand Evers (Research Center Karlsruhe) - Ab initio transport
calculations for molecular electronics: fundamentals and applications
17:30 - Sami M. Al-Jaber (An-Najah National University, Nablus) - Degenerate
electron gas and star stabilization in D dimension
Wednesday, July 30
09:00 - Edriss Titi (University of California, Irvine) - On the question
of global regularity for certain three-dimensional fluid models
09:30 - Federico Lastaria (Politecnico di Milano) - Exterior derivative of
forms and infinitesimal Stokes' theorem
10:00 - Mary W. Gray (American University, Washington) - Statistics in
aid of human rights
14:00 - Saber Elaydi (Trinity University, San Antonio) - Attenuance versus
resonance in dynamical systems
14:30 - Adi Nusser (Technion, Haifa) - Beyond the standard cosmological model
Special Session, Tuesday, July 29, 14:00-16:30
Turning the idea of a Palestinian Center of Excellence in Mathematics and
Physics at Birzeit University into a reality
Wednesday, July 30, 15:00-17:00
General Meetings of the Palestinian Physical Society and the Palestinian
Mathematical Society
