Symposium in honor of Ferdinand Verhulst

This year, Ferdinand Verhulst will officially retire from the Mathematical Institute of Utrecht University. To mark the occasion, a symposium will be held at Utrecht University on September 9 and 10, 2004.
If you would like to attend the symposium, please let us know by sending an e-mail to: ruijgrok@math.uu.nl


PROGRAM of The symposium Let epsilon << 1

A tribute to Ferdinand Verhulst at the occasion of his official retirement

Thursday September 9 2004
 
MORNING SESSION in Lecture Hall C of the Marinus Ruppert Building
(also known as TRANS 1) , Leuvenlaan 19
 
09.45 - 10.10Coffee/Tea
10.10 - 10.15Opening/Welcome
10.15 - 11.15Floris Takens (Groningen)
    Ferdinand Verhulst as a publisher and Schrödinger's cat according to Van Kampen
11.30 - 12.00Aart van Harten (Twente)
    Small epsilon effects in a non-ODE world
12.00 - 12.30Jan Sanders (VU Amsterdam)
    Normal forms and spectral sequences
 
12.30 - 14.00Lunch
    (reserved table in Minnaert Building but self-catering)
 
 
AFTERNOON SESSION in Lecture Hall 208 of the Minnaert Building , Leuvenlaan 4
 
14.00 - 14.30Igor Hoveijn (Groningen)
    Mathematical problems in Radiotherapy
14.30 - 15.00Gert van der Heijden (University College London)
    Twisting DNA: a topological issue
 
15.00 - 15.30Coffee/Tea
 
15.30 - 16.30Philip Holmes (Princeton)
    (also math colloquium talk)
Piecewise-holonomic mechanics, hybrid dynamical systems, and escaping cockroaches
16.45 - 18.00mini-talks (of possibly anecdotal character)
 
19.00 - 22.00dinner at the Faculty Club

Friday September 10 2004
 
(both morning and afternoon session in "Kleine Collegezaal" of the "Aardwetenschappen" Building
which is situated in between the Minnaert Building and the Mathematics Building
and accessible by connecting corridors from both)
 
09.45 - 10.15Coffee/Tea
10.15 - 11.15Bob O'Malley (Seattle)
    Using Amplitude Equations to Solve Initial Value Problems over Long Time Intervals
11.30 - 12.00Thijs Ruijgrok (Utrecht)
    Autoparametric reminiscences
12.00 - 12.30Johan Grasman (Wageningen)
    Breakdown time of a noisy chemostat
 
12.30 - 14.00Lunch
    (reserved table in Minnaert Building but self-catering)
 
14.00 - 15.00Hans Duistermaat (Utrecht)
    A mathematical model for geomagnetic reversals
 
15.00 - 15.30Coffee/Tea
 
15.30 - 16.00Ferdinand Verhulst
    The Excitement of Problems and Paradoxes
 
16.00 - 18.00reception in the Eigenruimte

The symposium is organised by Henk Broer, Odo Diekmann, Arjen Doelman and Thijs Ruijgrok.

Financial support comes from: