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Joint Workshop of IMS and IMI on Mathematics for Industry: Biological and Climatic Prospects
(3 - 7 September 2012)
Jointly organized with Institute of Mathematics for Industry, Kyushu University
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- Robert S. Anderssen (CSIRO)
- Kenji Kajiwara (Kyushu University)
- Tomoyuki Shirai (Kyushu University)
- Kim Chuan Toh (National University of Singapore)
- Masato Wakayama (Kyushu University)
Mathematics-for-Industry (MI) denotes a new research field in mathematics that will serve as the foundation for creating future technologies. It was born from the integration and reorganization of pure and applied mathematics into a fluid and versatile form capable of responding to the needs of industrial technologies. Practically, it aims to carrying out collaborative research of mathematics with leading edge technologies and sciences that contribute to the industrial applications of mathematics, and at the same time, to developing a new and diverse mathematics by acquiring feedback from these research areas.
Complementary aspects of practical needs and theoretical insights are crucial so that both communities need to pay attention to each other to realize big potential of applying highly sophisticated mathematics to industrial problems and conversely motivations of creating new trends of mathematics from the needs in industry. From this point of view, the most important thing at this stage is to furnish a common language for communication and an interface between mathematics and industry. One of the most basic aims of this program is to provide such an opportunity to both sides of community to form mutually beneficial partnership.
Two topics "biology and climate" proposed as subtitle both have highly complicated nature and are still beyond our complete understanding. Their complicated nature are related not only to their nonlinearty but also to the scale of problems and the number of parameters involved in them. For studying these challenging problems, mathematical modeling plays a crucial role and indeed several models have been proposed from various points of view. For example, Richardson invented a classical model of a system of ODEs and attempted to use for weather forecasting around 1920s long before computers are available. It was the first attempt of parallel computing for weather forecasting. Navier-Stokes equations are also the fundamental principle for more accurate weather forecasting such as problems of predicting how hurricanes move, where and when drought or flooding occur and how they can have an impact on global ecosystem. However, they are not usually solvable in general situation and so several approximating models are considered and analyzed by using supercomputer. In 1970s Karplus performed the molecular dynamics simulations of biological macromolecules and published the first molecular dynamics simulation of a protein. Molecular dynamics treats many numbers of microscopic interacting particles obeying classical Newtonian equation and predicts macroscopic properties of the system by animating and allowing insight into molecular motion on microscopic scale. Since Karplus's work several microscopic (first principles) simulation and Monte Carlo simulation techniques have been developed in several different directions and recent progress in parallel computing algorithms and increasing computer powers enable us to perform much larger simulations than those we could before. Techniques of imaging and visualization are the common basis of such analyses and simulations mentioned above and also for medical imaging for MRI and radiography, embryonic development, genetics, neuroscience and so on. On the industry side, the use of imaging and visualization technique is indispensible and ranges vastly in architecture, automotive engineering, pharmaceuticals and so on. Various mathematical tools are employed in this direction.
This program will help create/enhance the awareness on the applicability and importance of mathematical sciences in industry and foster closer interactions among industrial researchers/practitioners and mathematical scientists to solve contemporary industrial problems. It will also help find new directions in mathematics.
Monday, 3 Sep 2012 |
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09:30am - 09:50am |
Registration |
09:50am - 10:00am |
Opening remarks Wing Keung To, Institute for Mathematical Sciences |
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Chair: Kim Chuan Toh, National University of Singapore |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Mathematical modeling of jamming phenomena and its application to biological transportation I Katsuhiro Nishinari, University of Tokyo, Japan |
11:00pm - 11:10am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:10am - 12:10pm |
Mathematical modeling of jamming phenomena and its application to biological transportation II Katsuhiro Nishinari, University of Tokyo, Japan |
12:10pm - 01:40pm |
--- Lunch Reception at IMS --- |
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Chair: Kim Chuan Toh, National University of Singapore |
01:40pm - 02:40pm |
Logic in computational biology Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore |
02:40pm - 03:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
03:00pm - 03:40pm |
Osamu Maruyama, Kyushu University, Japan |
03:50pm - 04:30pm |
Accurate detection of SNPs using base-specific cleavage and mass spectrometry Xin Chen, Nanyang Technological University |
Tuesday, 4 Sep 2012 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
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Chair: Robert S. Anderssen, CSIRO, Australia |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Large-scale weather and climate fore-casting 1,2 I John Norbury, University of Oxford, UK |
11:00pm - 11:10am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:10am - 12:10pm |
Large-scale weather and climate fore-casting 1,2 II John Norbury, University of Oxford, UK |
12:10pm - 01:40pm |
--- Lunch --- |
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Chair: Robert S. Anderssen, CSIRO, Australia |
01:40pm - 02:40pm |
Short-term climate variability prediction and its social applications: emerging activities as a common ground where science and society meet and dynamics and statistics are used in a complementary fashion Hirofumi Sakuma, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan |
02:40pm - 03:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
03:00pm - 04:00pm |
Multi-Âscale multi-Âphysics simulations for weather/climate forecast on the earth simulator Keiko Takahashi, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan |
04:10pm - 04:50pm |
Statistical dynamics of tropical wind in radiosonde data (PDF) Tieh-Yong Koh, Nanyang Technological University |
Wednesday, 5 Sep 2012 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
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Chair: Masato Wakayama, Kyushu University, Japan |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Mathematical topics in virtual medicine Peter Deuflhard, Zuse Institute Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
11:00pm - 11:10am |
--- Group Photo & Coffee Break --- |
11:10am - 12:10pm |
Level set methods for fluid-structure problems arising in biological flows Georges-Henri Cottet, Université de Grenoble and CNRS, France |
12:10pm - 01:30pm |
--- Lunch Reception at IMS --- |
01:30pm - 05:00pm |
Excursion to Gardens by the Bay (Volunteer and self-paid) |
Thursday, 6 Sep 2012 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
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Chair: Kenji Kajiwara, Kyushu University, Japan |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Global remeshing of surface and volume meshes Konrad Polthier, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
11:00pm - 11:10am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:10am - 12:10pm |
Spectral techniques for fast interactive shape animation Konrad Polthier, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
12:10pm - 01:40pm |
--- Lunch --- |
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Chair: Kenji Kajiwara, Kyushu University, Japan |
01:40pm - 02:40pm |
Mathematical models for computer facial animation Kenichi Anjyo, OLM Digital R&D, Japan |
02:40pm - 03:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
03:00pm - 03:40pm |
Mathematical methods for blind image deconvolution Hui Ji, National University of Singapore |
03:50pm - 04:30pm |
Computational topology and its application to protein structure analysis Yasuaki Hiraoka, Kyushu University, Japan |
06:30pm - 08:30pm |
Dinner at Jumbo Seafood Restaurant (East Coast Seafood Centre) |
Friday, 7 Sep 2012 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
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Chair: Tomoyuki Shirai, Kyushu University, Japan |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Optimal control of molecular dynamics Christof Schütte, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
11:00pm - 11:10am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:10am - 12:10pm |
Multiscale modelling and simulation of biological processes Christof Schütte, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
12:10pm - 01:40pm |
--- Lunch Reception at IMS --- |
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Chair: Tomoyuki Shirai, Kyushu University, Japan |
01:40pm - 02:40pm |
Mathematical modelling of sap flow in maple trees John Stockie, Simon Fraser University, Canada |
02:40pm - 03:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
03:00pm - 04:00pm |
Towards the new era based on ultra-scale supercomputer system Yoshimasa Kadooka, Fujitsu, Japan |
04:00pm - 04:10pm |
Closing remarks Masato Wakayama, Kyushu University, Japan |
Students and researchers who are interested in attending these activities are requested to complete the online registration form.
The following do not need to register:
- Those invited to participate.
For general enquiries, please email us at ims(AT)nus.edu.sg.
For enquiries on scientific aspects of the program, please email Tomoyuki Shirai at shirai(AT)imi.kyushu-u.ac.jp.
Organizing Committee · Visitors and Participants · Overview · Venue · Activities · Enquiries
