Session 1: Professor David Abrahams | 12:30 to 13:30 | Registration and Lunch | ||
13:30 to 13:40 | Welcome and Introduction | David Abrahams (University of Cambridge) | ||
13:40 to 14:00 | Hairodynamics | Raymond Goldstein (University of Cambridge) |
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14:00 to 14:20 | Keller Cones in Aeroacoustics | John Chapman (Keele University) |
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14:20 to 14:40 | Discrete Modelling of Wave-Droplet Dynamics |
Carlos Galeano-Rios (University of Bath) Paul Milewski (University of Bath) |
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14:40 to 15:00 | Mathematics of the Faraday Cage | Jonathan Chapman (University of Oxford) |
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15:00 to 15:20 | Keller's Influence Behind the "Iron Curtain": GTD Ideas in the Soviet/Russian Diffraction School | Valery Smyshlyaev (University College London) |
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15:20 to 15:50 | Tea and Coffee Refreshments | |||
Session 2: Professor Brian Sleeman | 15:50 to 16:10 | Floating with Surface Tension: From Archimedes to Keller | Dominic Vella (University of Oxford) |
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16:10 to 16:30 | The Motion of Surfactant-Laden Bubbles | Demetrios Papageorgiou (Imperial College London) |
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16:30 to 16:50 | Liesegang Rings | Andrew Fowler (University of Limerick), (University of Oxford) |
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16:50 to 17:10 | Kellerods and Kelasticas | Alain Goriely (University of Oxford) |
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17:10 to 17:30 | On Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions | Marcus Grote (Universität Basel) |
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19:00 to 22:00 | Drinks reception and Dinner at Westminster College |
Session 3: Dr Hilary Ockendon | 09:00 to 09:05 | Welcome and Introduction | Hilary Ockendon (University of Oxford) | |
09:05 to 09:25 | Spectacle Lens Design following Hamilton, Maxwell and Keller | Jacob Rubinstein (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) |
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09:25 to 09:45 | The Differential Geometry and Mechanics of Tying Your Shoelaces | Lucy Lifschitz (University of Virginia) | ||
09:45 to 10:05 | Computational Wave Propagation in the Spirit of the Geometrical Theory of Diffraction | Dave Hewett (University College London) |
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10:05 to 10:25 | Understanding Angiogenesis through Modeling and Asymptotics | Luis Bonilla (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) |
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10:25 to 10:45 | On the Buckling of Elastic Rings by External Confinement | Tom Mullin (University of Oxford) |
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10:45 to 11:15 | Tea and Coffee Refreshments | |||
Session 4: Professor Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck | 11:15 to 11:35 | Joe Keller and the Courant Institute 1970-71: Beginning a Mathematical Journey | Brian Sleeman (University of Leeds) |
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11:35 to 11:55 | Complex Rays, Cones of Silence and Catastrophes | Christopher Howls (University of Southampton) | ||
11:55 to 12:15 | Effective Properties of Doubly Periodic Media | Richard Craster (Imperial College London) |
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12:15 to 12:35 | The Unified Transform, Imaging, Asymtotics | Thanasis Fokas (University of Cambridge) |
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12:35 to 13:30 | Lunch | |||
Session 5: Professor John Ockendon | 13:30 to 13:50 | Numerical Investigations of the Properties of Nonlinear Free Surface Flows | Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck (University College London) |
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13:50 to 14:10 | An Asymptotic Matching Problem in Braginskii Magnetohydrodynamics | Paul Dellar (University of Oxford) |
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14:10 to 14:30 | From Kiiking to Kuzmak | Sam Howison (University of Oxford) |
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14:30 to 14:50 | Radiation by a Dielectric Wedge | Anthony Rawlins (Brunel University) |
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14:50 to 15:10 | Mirages, in the Spirit of JBK: Rays, Caustics, Waves and Raman's Instructive Confusion | Michael Berry (University of Bristol) |
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15:10 to 15:20 | Closing Remarks | Alice Whittemore (Stanford University) |
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15:20 to 15:50 | Refreshments and close |