@Article{CAM-15-22,
author = {},
title = {香港数学会及中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院/香港理工大学应用数学联合实验室杰出学者报告，December 5, 2018},
journal = {CAM-Net Digest},
year = {2018},
volume = {15},
number = {22},
pages = {7--7},
abstract = {<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">We cordially invite you to join the Joint Distinguished Lecture held by Hong Kong Mathematical&nbsp;Society and CAS AMSS-PolyU Joint Laboratory in Applied Mathematics. The lecture will be presented&nbsp;by Prof. Sir John Ball, Heriot-Watt University and Institute for Advanced Study (City University of Hong Kong).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Details are as follows:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Date:&nbsp;&nbsp; 5 December 2018 (Wednesday)<br/>Time:&nbsp;&nbsp; 4:00pm– 5:00pm&nbsp;<br/>Venue: Room Y302, Core Y, PolyU<br/>Title:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some mathematical problems for liquid crystals<br/>Please refer to the attached poster for further information. Should you have any queries, please contact&nbsp;<br/>Miss Natalie Cheung (email:&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" href="mailto:natalie.cheung@polyu.edu.hk"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">natalie.cheung@polyu.edu.hk</span></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Abstract: The lecture will give an introduction to classical theories of liquid crystals and discuss&nbsp;some related problems, such as the stability of universal solutions, exterior problems and thin films.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Biography:&nbsp; Sir John Ball is currently Professor of Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh,&nbsp;and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford, where he was formerly Sedleian Professor of&nbsp;Natural Philosophy. He has made fundamental contributions to nonlinear partial differential equations,&nbsp;the calculus of variations and their applications to materials science and liquid crystals. He was a&nbsp;member of the first Abel Prize Committee in 2002, and of the Fields Medal Committee in 1998 and 2006.&nbsp;<br/>From 1996-1998 he was president of the London Mathematical Society, and from 2003-2006 president of&nbsp;the International Mathematical Union (IMU). From 2011-2018 he was a member of the Executive Board of&nbsp;the International Council for Science. He has received many distinguished awards and honours, including&nbsp;the Royal Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2006), the Sylvester Medal (2009),&nbsp; the John von Neumann&nbsp;Prize (2012), the King Faisal Prize for Science (2018) and the Leonardo da Vinci award (2018). He is a&nbsp;Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Foreign Member of the French&nbsp;Academy of Sciences, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and the Istituto Lombardo.</span></p>},
issn = {},
doi = {https://doi.org/2018-CAM-14111},
url = {https://global-sci.com/article/76027/december-5-2018}
}