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Workshop on Asymptotic Analysis

Hong Kong, June 20 - June 22, 2008

Organisers: Arno Kuijlaars and Roderick Wong

Invited speakers

• Alexander Aptekarev, Moscow, Russia
• Jinho Baik, Michigan, USA
• Pavel Bleher, IUPUI Indianapolis, USA
• Peter Clarkson, Canterbury, UK
• Ovidiu Costin, Ohio State, USA
• Alfredo Deano, Cambridge, UK
  
• Diego Dominici, SUNY New Paltz, USA and Berlin, Germany
  
• Daan Huybrechs, Leuven, Belgium
• Elizabeth Its, IUPUI Indianapolis, USA
• Igor Krasovsky, Brunel, London, UK
• Jose Lopez, Navarra, Spain
• Guillermo Lopez Lagomasino, Madrid, Spain
• Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein, Almeria, Spain
• Ken McLaughlin, Arizona, USA
• Peter Miller, Michigan, USA
• Adri Olde Daalhuis, Edinburgh, UK
• Qiu Wei-yuan, Fudan, China
• Alexander Tovbis, Orlando, USA
• Walter Van Assche, Leuven, Belgium
• Z. Wang, Wuhan, China
• Franck Wielonsky, Lille, France
• Ruiming Zhang, Guangxi, China
• Y.-Q. Zhao, Zhongshan, China

Related plenary talks

• Percy Deift, New York, USA
• Alexander Its, Indianapolis, USA
• Roderick Wong, Hong Kong, China

Workshop schedule

• 13:50 -- 14:35 Ovidiu Costin (semiplenary speaker)
  Borel transform techniques in PDEs (abstract)
• 14:40  --  15:00 Walter Van Assche
  Asymptotic behavior of multiple (Hermite-Pade) polynomials on two touching intervals
  
• 15:05  --  15:25 Ruiming Zhang
  Scaled asymptotics for some q-series (abstract)
• 15:30  --  16:00   COFFEE BREAK
• 16:00  --  16:45 Pavel Bleher
  Large N asymptotics in the six-vertex model
• 16:50  --  17:10 Franck Wielonsky
  Asymptotics of non-intersecting squared Bessel processes  (abstract)
• 17:15  --  17:35 Qiu Wei-yuan
  Global asymptotic expansions of the Meixner-Pollaczek polynomial
• 17:40  --  18:00 Elizabeth Its
  Riemann-Hilbert approach to the elastodynamic equation (abstract)
• 18:05  --  18:25 Diego Dominici
  Asymptotic analysis of Hermite-type polynomials (abstract)

• 13:50  --  14:10 Alexander Aptekarev
  The global regime for random matrices with quartic potential and external source
• 14:10  --  14:30 Jose Lopez
  Some recent advances in asymptotics of integrals (abstract)
• 14:40  -- 15:25 Peter Clarkson (semiplenary talk)
  Asymptotics for the Painleve Equations (abstract)
• 15:30  --  16:00   COFFEE BREAK
• 16:00  --  16:45 Alexander Tovbis
   Nonlinear steepest descent method for semiclassical solutions of the focusing NLS
• 16:50  --  17:10 Guillermo Lopez-Lagomasino
   Asymptotics of vector Fourier-Pade approximation
• 17:15  --  17:35 Ken McLaughlin
   Asymptotic analysis of Riemann-Hilbert problems via d-bar methods
  
• 17:40  --  18:00 Y.-Q. Zhao
  Uniform asymptotics of the Pollaczek polynomials via the Riemann-Hilbert approach
• 18:05  --  18:25 Alfredo Deano
  On modified asymptotic series involving confluent hypergeometric functions (abstract)

• 13:50  --  14:35 Jinho Baik
  Random Hermitian matrices with spiked external source (abstract)
• 14:40  --  15:00 Adri Olde Daalhuis
  Mixed Gevrey asymptotics (abstract)
• 15:05  --  15:25 Daan Huybrechs
  Numerical and asymptotic methods for multivariate highly oscillatory integrals (abstract)
• 15:30  --  16:00   COFFEE BREAK
• 16:00  --  16:45 Peter Miller (semiplenary speaker)
  On the semiclassical limit for the sine-Gordon equation (abstract)
• 16:50  --  17:10 Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein
  Zeros of Heine-Stieltjes polynomials and critical measures (abstract)
• 17:15  --  17:35 Z. Wang
   Global asymptotics of  polynomials orthogonal with respect to quartic exponential weight (abstract)
  
• 17:40  --  18:25 Igor Krasovsky
  Asymptotics of Toeplitz, Hankel, and Toeplitz+Hankel determinants with Fisher-Hartwig singularities, and polynomials orthogonal on the unit circle (abstract)