Draft Programme
Wednesday 4th January
From 11am: Collection of keys from St Patrick’s Hall
From midday: Registration in the Engineering Building
1.15-1.30: Introduction and Welcome
1.30-2.00: Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck
Nonlinear free surface flows over topography
2.00-2.30: David Riley
A multiple scales approach to developing rational approximations for coating and
rimming flows on rapidly rotating cylinders
2.30-3.00: John King
Waiting-time behaviour for the thin film equations
3.00-3.30: Coffee Break
3.30-4.00: Ruben Schulkes
Stability of stratified gas-liquid flow
4.00-4.30: Sam Falle
The role of thermal instability in star formation
4.30-5.00: Gary Sharpe
Explosions with a three-step chain-branching chemistry model
5.00-5.30: John Ockendon
Delta shocks
6.30-7.00: reception at St Patrick’s Hall
7.00
: Dinner
Thursday 5th January
From 7.30: Breakfast in St Patrick’s Hall
9.00-9.30: Nigel Scott
The propagation of a temperature wave in generalized isotropic thermoelasticity
9.30-10.00: John Merkin
The stability of autocatalytic reaction fronts
10.00-10.30: Coffee Break
10.30-11.00: David Needham
Travelling waves in the hyperbolic Fisher equation
11.00-11.30: John Billingham
Moving contact lines in slender fluid wedges
11.30-12.00: Stephen Decent
Mathematical and experimental examination of breaking jets and threads
12.00-12.30: Yulii Shikhmurzaev
Nonlocal dependence of dynamic contact angle on wetting speed in low Reynolds
number curtain coating
1.00 - 1.45: Lunch at St Patrick’s Hall
2.00 - 2.30: Graham Wilks
Similarity solutions: A means to an end
2.30 - 3.00: David Abrahams
Wave propagation in periodic and random composite materials
3.00 - 3.30: David Parker
TBA
3.30: Meeting ends