January - April 1999
Organisers: RC Ball (Cambridge), KJ Falconer (St Andrews)
Monday 22 March
09.00-10.00 Registration
10.00-11.00 R Stinchcombe (Oxford)
Physical processes on regular and random fractals
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.30 R Strichartz (Cornell)
Analysis on fractals vis-a-vis analysis on manifolds
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.30-15.00 M Barlow (British Columbia)
Diffusions on regular fractals
15.00-15.30 U Mosco (Rome)
On the theory of variational fractals
15.30-16.00 U Mosco (Rome)
On the theory of variational fractals
16.00-16.30 Tea
16.30-17.30 H Herrmann (ESPCI, Paris)
Structures and dynamics of granular packings
17.30-18.30 Wine Reception
Tuesday 23 March
09.00-10.00 B Sapoval (Ecole Polytechnique)
Surface fractal resonators
10.00-11.00 D Vassiliev (Sussex)
Self-similar solutions for a fractal drum
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.30 M van den Berg (Bristol)
Heat equation on the arithmetic von Koch snowflake
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.30 M Filoche (Ecole Polytechnique)
TBC
14.30-15.00 T Halpin-Healy (Columbia)
TBC
15.00-15.30 A Teplyaev (McMaster)
Analysis on infinite Sierpinski gaskets
15.30-16.00 K Falconer (St Andrews)
Semilinear PDEs on self-similar fractals
16.00-16.30 Tea
16.30-17.30 L Sander (Michigan)
DLA and conformal maps
18.00-19.30 Reception at Cambridge University Press Bookshop, 1 Trinity Street
Wednesday 24 March
09.00-10.00 B Derrida (ENS, Paris)
Non-trivial exponents in coarsening phenomena
10.00-11.00 S Kusuoka (Tokyo)
Wave equation on fractal like manifolds
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.30 R Bass (Connecticut)
Divergence from operators on fractal-like domains
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Informal discussion
Thursday 25 March
09.00-10.00 A Aharony (Oslo)
Electrons and fractons on hierarchical lattices
10.00-11.00 J Kigami (Kyoto)
Self-similarity of volume measures for Laplacians on p.c.f. self-similar
fractals
11.00-11.30 Coffee
12.30-14.00 Lunch
114.00-14.30 B Hambly (Edinburgh)
Spectral asymptotics for random recursive and graph directed fractals
14.30-15.00 T Kumagai (Nagoya)
Brownian motion penetrating fractals
15.00-15.30 H Osada (Nagoya)
Exotic Brownian motions - a new construction method for diffusions on fractals
15.30-16.00 R Ball (Warwick)
Stress transmission though fractals and weekly connected structures
16.00-16.30 Tea
16.30-17.30 B Mandelbrot (Yale)
Fractal solutions of PDEs
19.00 Conference Dinner, Sidney Sussex College
Friday 26 March
09.00-10.00 J Harrison (California, Berkeley)
Unified analysis on manifolds and fractals
10.00-11.00 T Vicsek (Eotvos)
Collective motion
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.30 C Vassilicos (Cambridge)
Dissipation physics of fractal and spiral fields
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00 Discussion