FrontPage

IUTAM Symposium on 50 Years of Chaos : Applied and Theoretical †

This symposium was ended successfully. We greatly appreciate your participation to it and valuable presentations. Each of your contributions made the symposium to be successful and fruitful. We hope this opportunity would be a cornerstone for you and the next 50 years of chaos theory.

Organizer:

International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Symposium Date:

Nov. 28 (Mon) - Dec. 2 (Fri), 2011

Place:

Kyoto University, Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto, JAPAN

Scope of Symposium:

The symposium will focus on the development of theory of dynamical systems and its application since the discovery of chaotic attractors in models of physical systems by Ueda (Japan) and Lorenz (USA) in early 1960's. Following Poincare's seminal work in 19th century, nonlinear dynamics was studied largely by mathematicians in Europe, USA, and USSR. The symposium title "50 Years of Chaos" reflects the computational discovery of chaotic attractors, which ushered in a new age of chaos and dynamical systems theory. This theory comprises a broad range of analytical, geometrical, topological, and numerical methods for analyzing differential equations and iterated mappings. Applications of modern dynamical systems theory are spreading beyond the mathematical and physical sciences, although attention will be focused on mechanical, engineering and mathematical aspects in this IUTAM symposium.

IUTAM2011_kyoto_l.jpg

Program:

Special lectures are planned in the fields of chaos theory, fluid mechanics, and dynamical systems. Currently, We have five special lecturers:

Dr. David Ruelle	Emeritus Professor of IHES	From the Theory of Chaos to Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Dr. Yoshisuke Ueda	Waseda University and Emeritus Professor of Kyoto University	How a Broken Egg Attractor Has Influenced Dynamics of My Life?
Dr. James Yorke	Professor of the University of Maryland, College Park	The Many Facets of Chaos
Dr. Philip Holmes	Professor of Princeton University	A Short, Truncated, and Partial History of Chaos
Dr. Francis C. Moon	Professor of Cornell University	Vibro-wind Energy Scavenging: An Example of Nonlinear Engineering

The total number of presentations is limited to 80, including oral and poster presentations. Interested colleagues are invited to submit abstracts to the symposium. The tentative technical program of the symposium is posted here (Updated August 25, 2011).

↑