The Lin-Shu Symposium: 50 Years of Spiral Density Waves

Sunday June 23, 2013
15:00~18:00 Registration upon Arrival (Jiasuo Hotel Lobby)
Monday June 24, 2013
Jiasuo Hotel
09:30~10:00 Gathering at 9:30 before walking to Main Building Auditorium (Optional)
Tsinghua University Main Building Auditorium
10:00~11:30 Memorial Ceremony for Prof. C.C. Lin
CN Yang, BingLin Gu, VIPs
11:30~12:00 Moving to Jiasuo Hotel by car
12:00~13:20 Lunch at Jiasuo Hotel
13:20~13:30 Walking to Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics
Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics
Chair: Wen-An Yong
13:30~14:10 Remembering Professor C. C. Lin (1916-2013)
Frank Shu (Academia Sinica)
14:10~14:50 The Success and trends of hydrodynamic instability research
Jiachun Li (Institute of Mechanics, CAS)
14:50~15:30 Observation of large scale and high speed superlubricity in graphite
Quanshui Zheng
15:30~16:00 Coffee Break
16:00~16:40 Bulk and Thin Film Electrical Contacts, RF Heating and Field Enhancement
Y. Y. Lau (University of Michigan)
16:40~17:20 How does order grow out of disorder? – A journey inspired by C.C. Lin
Liu Hong (Tsinghua University)
17:20~18:00 MHD Density Waves in Magnetized Spiral Galaxies
Yu-Qing Lou (Physics Department, Tsinghua University)
18:30~19:00 Walking to QuanJude Roast Duck Restaurant
19:00~21:00 Banquet (Peking Duck: QuanJude Roast Duck Restaurant)
Tuesday June 25, 2013
Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics
Chair: Ronald Taam
08:40~09:40 Spiral structure in galaxies: a density wave theory based on global modes
Giuseppe Bertin (Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica)
09:40~10:40 Review of Density Wave Observations
Ron Allen (Space Telescope Science Institute)
10:40~11:00 Coffee Break
11:00~11:50 Rings in Spiral Galaxies in the Local Group: Lessons from Ren\'e Magritte
David Lazar Block (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
11:50~13:50 Lunch at Jiasuo Hotel
Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics
Chair: Fred Adams
13:50~14:30 The Onset of Grand Design Spiral Structure in the Universe
Debra Elmegreen (Vassar College)
14:30~15:10 Cosmic Evolution of Star Formation Processes in Spiral Arms
Bruce Elmegreen (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
15:10~15:50 Emergence of Rings with Spiral Structures Around Shining Black Holes, Magnetic Field Generation Processes and High Energy Particle Populations
Bruno Coppi (MIT)
15:50~16:10 Coffee Break
16:10~16:50 Observing density waves in spiral galaxies using birthplaces and NIR photometry
Preben Grosboel (European Southern Observatory)
16:50~17:30 What does amplify the spirals
Michel Tagger (LPC2E, Orléans (France))
17:30~17:50 High-density, high-shear conditions in the circumnuclear starburst ring of NGC 7742 and their implications for star cluster evolution
Richard de Grijs (Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University)
Wednesday June 26, 2013
Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics
Chair: Susana Lizano
08:40~09:20 The matrix methods in the stability theory of stellar systems and the problem of bar formation
Evgeny Polyachenko (Institute of Astronomy RAS)
09:20~10:00 A new method for reconstructing the density distribution of matter in the disks of spiral galaxies from the rotation velocity curve in it
Alexander Shatskiy (Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute)
10:00~10:20 Coffee Break
10:20~11:00 Generalized Lin-Shu Theory of Density Waves
Evgeny Griv (Ben-Gurion University)
11:00~11:40 Dynamics and large-scale star formation in disk galaxies
Rosa A. Gonzalez-Lopezlira (CRyA-UNAM)
11:40~12:20 The Role of Gas in Spiral Galaxies
Sukanya Chakrabarti (Rochester Institute of Technology)
12:20 Lunch at Jiasuo Hotel
Free Shuttle to The Palace Museum/The Forbidden City
Free time to visit the Museum on your own or go shopping at the downtown Beijing
Back to hotel by yourselves
Thursday June 27, 2013
Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics
Chair: Chair: Yu-Qing Lou
08:40~09:30 Density waves, protoplanetary disks and planets
John Papaloizou (University of Cambridge)
09:30~10:20 Density Wave Structure in Protostellar Disks and Planetary Migration
Doug Lin (UCSC)
10:20~10:40 Coffee Break
10:40~11:20 Spiral structure and gravitational instabilities in protostellar discs
Giuseppe Lodato (Universita' degli Studi di Milano)
11:20~12:00 3D Aspects of Density Waves
Steve Lubow (STScI)
12:00~13:30 Lunch at Jiasuo Hotel
Zou Pei Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics
Chair: Debra Elmegreen
13:30~14:10 Feathering Instability of Spiral Arms
Wing-Kit Lee (University of California, San Diego)
14:10~14:50 Radial Mass Inflows in Barred-Spiral Galaxies
Woong-Tae Kim (Seoul National University)
14:50~15:30 Fueling the central activities in barred spiral galaxies
Lien-Hsuan Lin (ASIAA)
15:30~16:00 Coffee Break
16:00~16:40 Stellar density waves in M81
Hsiang-Hsu Wang (Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica)
16:40~17:20 Using Density Wave Theory as a Tool to Find Young Planets in Birth
Zhaohuan Zhu (Princeton University)
17:20~17:40 Nuclear rings in barred galaxies
ZHi Li (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)
Friday June 28, 2013
Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics
Chair: Doug Lin
08:40~09:40 Dynamical Developments in Saturn’s Rings
Luke Dones (Southwest Research Institute)
09:40~10:00 Dynamics of the Milky Way Bulge
Juntai Shen (Shanghai Astronomical Obs., Chinese Academy of Sciences)
10:00~10:20 Orbit Analysis of a Self-consistent N-body Model of Milky Way-like Barred Galaxy
Yujing Qin (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS)
10:20~10:40 Coffee Break
10:40~11:20 From Galactic Halos to the Reimann Zeta Function: An adventure in applied mathematics
Fred Adams (University of Michigan)
11:20~12:20 Concluding Remarks - A Reflection
Frank Shu (Academia Sinica)
12:20~14:00 Lunch at Jiasuo Hotel