International Conference on Advances in Partial Differential Equations and their Applications

偏微分方程理论的发展在数学、科学、工程和工业中有着深远的意义和应用。 偏微分方程和应用之间的相互作用在地球物理流体动力学和气候动力学中特别有趣。 2010年5月31日至6月4日，研究者及其同事在中国上海复旦大学举行了关于非线性偏微分方程及其在地球物理流体动力学中的应用的国际会议。 资金支持美国研究人员，特别是年轻，女性和代表性不足的研究人员参加会议。 本次国际会议的目的是汇集非线性偏微分方程及其在地球物理流体动力学中的应用的不同前沿领域的专家，共同探讨最近的进展和当前的挑战。讨论新的想法和方法如何在未来几年推动该领域的发展。 该会议涉及来自美国，中国和其他国家的大量研究人员，并为国际应用和计算数学界的发展做出了重大贡献。 为小组讨论安排了一次特别的前瞻性会议，重点讨论非线性偏微分方程和地球物理流体动力学领域面临的挑战和机遇。 这次特别会议的成果，连同讲者和与会者的其他论文，发表在《中国数学年刊》上。

WangDMS-1002618Advances in the theory of partial differential equations have had profound implications and applications in mathematics, science, engineering and industry. The interplay between partial differential equations and applications has been particularly interesting in geophysical fluid dynamics and climate dynamics. The investigator and his colleagues hold an International conference on Advances in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and their Applications to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics during May 31 - June 4, 2010 in Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Funding supports US researchers, in particular, junior, women, and under-represented researchers, to attend the conference. The conference contributes in promoting, enhancing, and stimulating international research interactions and collaborations in the mathematical sciences, more specifically, in applied and computational mathematics.The aim of this international conference is to bring together experts who work on diverse frontiers of nonlinear PDEs and their applications to geophysical fluid dynamics to survey recent progress and current challenges, to discuss how new ideas and methods could advance the field in coming years. The conference involves a large number of researchers from the United States, China, and other countries, and contributes significantly to the development of the international applied and computational mathematics community. A special forward-looking session is arranged for panel discussions, focusing on the challenges and opportunities facing the fields of nonlinear partial differential equations and geophysical fluid dynamics. Findings from this special session, together with other papers by the speakers and the participants, are published in the Chinese Annuals of Mathematics.