January - April 1999
Organisers: RC Ball (Cambridge), KJ Falconer (St Andrews)
Monday 4 January
09.00-09.40 Registration
09.40-09.50 Welcome by Professor Keith Moffatt, Director at Isaac Newton
Institute
09.50-10.45 B Mandelbrot (Yale/IBM)
Multifractals
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.10 S Jaffard (Paris)
Wavelet methods for the study of multifractals functions
12.30-14.15 Lunch
14.15-14.55 C Tricot (Clermont II)
A weak multifractal formalism
15.00-15.20 E Vrscay (Waterloo)
Fractal-wavelet transforms and their connections to IFSs and wavelet analysis
15.25-15.45 P Abry (Lyon)
The use of wavelet transforms to analyse cascade phenomena and multifractal
processes
15.50-16.15 Tea
16.15-16.35 B Jouault (Dresden)
Wavelet correlations and multiplier phenomenology in multiplicative
cascade processes
16.40-17.00 M Alava (Helsinki)
Statistics of 2D random field Ising domain walls
17.05-17.25 O Biham (Jerusalem)
Scaling range and cutoffs in empirical fractals: models and predictions
17.30-18.45 Wine Reception
19.00 Dinner
Tuesday 5 January
09.00-09.55 J Levy-Vehel (INRIA)
Applications of multifractals in signal processing
10.00-10.40 R Riedi (Rice)
Multifractal processes
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.10 I Procaccia (Weizmann Inst)
Conformal theory and thermodynamic formalism for the multifractal properties
of Diffusion Limited Aggregates
12.30-14.15 Lunch
14.15-15.10 TC Halsey (Exxon)
DLA as branched growth
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Seminar Room 1:
15.10-15.30 D Heffernan (Maynooth)
Left-sided multifractality
15.35-15.55 W Hanan (Maynooth)
Left-sided multifractality
Tea
16.25-16.45 J Gough (Maynooth)
Entropic description of multifractal spectra arising from large deviation
analysis
16.50-17.10 B Davidovitch (Weizmann Inst)
DLA as a process of iterated conformal maps: statistical properties
of the harmonic measure and temporal correlations
17.15-17.35 G Entin (Novosibirsk)
Scale invariance in percolation theory and fractals
17.40-18.00 S Watt (Sydney)
Growth and form in the zero noise limit
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Seminar Room 2
15.10-15.30 B Lammering (St Andrews)
Multifractals on generalised Sierpinski triangles
15.35-15.55 A Lorent (UCL)
Rectitiability results in l3Ľ
16.00-16.25 Tea
16.25-16.45 S El Ghandour (Casablanca)
Un alogorithme efficase de determination de l'enveloppe convexe d'une
forme geometrique ou un ensemble de points dans le plan
16.50-17.10 V Shlyk (Belarus)
Subadditive functions or some finite sets and related polyhedra
17.15-17.35 MA Rodríguez de Cara (Madrid)
'El Farol' bar model: complexity of complicity in complicated systems
17.40-17.35 A Kovalchuk (Chernivtsy)
Diffraction on asymmetric fractal structures
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19.00 Dinner
Wednesday 6 January
09.00-09.55 L Olsen (St Andrews)
Multifractal geometry
10.00-10.40 J Peyriere (Orsay)
tba
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.10 B Duplantier (Scalay/Institute H Poincaré)
Exact multifractal spectrum of the harmonic measure on polymers or percolation
clusters in two dimensions
12.30 Lunch
Free Afternoon
19.00 Dinner
Thursday 7 January
09.00-09.55 SJ Taylor (Sussex)
Geometric conditions which invalidate the usual multifractal formalism
10.00-10.40 K Hopcraft, E Jakeman, R Tanner (Nottingham)
Multifractal behaviour from Lévy flights with fluctuating step
numbers
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.10 R Mauldin (North Texas)
Multifractal analysis for IFSs consisting of infinitely many conformal
maps
12.30-14.15 Lunch
14.15-14.55 K Falconer (St Andrews)
Self-affine multifractal measures
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Seminar Room 1
15.00-15.20 N-R Shieh (Taiwan)
Some dimension spectrum concerning the weak non-typical branching behaviour
on Galton-Watson trees
15.25-15.45 J Barral (Orsay)
Statistically self-similar multifractal measures
15.50-16.15 Tea
16.15-16.35 J Cole (St Andrews)
Relative multifractal analysis
16.40-17.00 M Kesseboehmer (Göttingen/St Andrews)
Medium and large deviation asymptotics for multifractal measures
17.05-17.25 J-M Rey (Madrid)
Dimensions and measures in time series analysis
17.30-17.50 J Gutiérrez (Cantabria)
Analysis of symbolic sequences using IFS and multifractal analysis
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Seminar Room 2
15.00-15.20 J Lopez (Imperial)
Are fracture cracks really self-affine surfaces?
15.25-15.45 T Mulholland (Glasgow Caledonian)
Fouling resistence of random fractal media
15.50-16.15 Tea
16.15-16.35 F Labini (Geneve)
Scale invariance of galaxy clustering
16.40-17.00 J Diego (Santander)
Fractals and the cosmic microwave background
17.05-17.25 C Martins (Cambridge)
The fractal properties of cosmic string networks
17.30-17.50 D Battogtokh (Kyoto)
Multiaffine chemical turbulence
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19.00 Conference Dinner at Corpus Christi College
Friday 8 January
09.00-09.55 R Ball (Warwick)
How do multifractal measures grow?
10.00-10.40 B Mandelbrot (Yale/IBM)
Multifractal functions and fractals and scaling in finance
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.10 M Hastings (Princeton)
Renormalisation of DLA
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.40 N Patzschke (Jena)
Self-similar random thermodynamics
14.45-15.05 K Simon (Miskolc/Amsterdam)
Connection between the exeptional set for fractals with overlaps and
multifractal analysis
15.10-15.45 Tea
19.00 Dinner