The aim of the symposium was to provide a forum for presenting and discussing recent developments and trends in Reaction-diffusion Equations and to promote scientific exchanges among mathematicians in China and in Japan, especially for the younger generation. The topics discussed were: Layer dynamics, Traveling wave solutions and its stability, Equilibrium solutions and its limit behavior (stability), Bifurcation phenomena, Computational solutions, and Infinite dimensional dynamical system.

This two-volume work presents state-of-the-art mathematical theories and results on infinite-dimensional dynamical systems. Inertial manifolds, approximate inertial manifolds, discrete attractors and the dynamics of small dissipation are discussed in detail. The unique combination of mathematical rigor and physical background makes this work an essential reference for researchers and graduate students in applied mathematics and physics. The main emphasis in the first volume is on the mathematical analysis of attractors and inertial manifolds. This volume deals with the existence of global attractors, inertial manifolds and with the estimation of Hausdorff fractal dimension for some dissipative nonlinear evolution equations in modern physics. Known as well as many new results about the existence, regularity and properties of inertial manifolds and approximate inertial manifolds are also presented in the first volume. The second volume will be devoted to modern analytical tools and methods in infinite-dimensional dynamical systems. Contents Attractor and its dimension estimation Inertial manifold The approximate inertial manifold

This work was initiated in the summer of 1985 while all of the authors were at the Center of Nonlinear Studies of the Los Alamos National Laboratory; it was then continued and polished while the authors were at Indiana Univer sity, at the University of Paris-Sud (Orsay), and again at Los Alamos in 1986 and 1987. Our aim was to present a direct geometric approach in the theory of inertial manifolds (global analogs of the unstable-center manifolds) for dissipative partial differential equations. This approach, based on Cauchy integral mani folds for which the solutions of the partial differential equations are the generating characteristic curves, has the advantage that it provides a sound basis for numerical Galerkin schemes obtained by approximating the inertial manifold. The work is self-contained and the prerequisites are at the level of a graduate student. The theoretical part of the work is developed in Chapters 2-14, while in Chapters 15-19 we apply the theory to several remarkable partial differ ential equations.

This book treats the theory of global attractors, a recent development in the theory of partial differential equations, in a way that also includes much of the traditional elements of the subject. As such it gives a quick but directed introduction to some fundamental concepts, and by the end proceeds to current research problems. Since the subject is relatively new, this is the first book to attempt to treat these various topics in a unified and didactic way. It is intended to be suitable for first year graduate students.

Contents: Direct and Inverse Diffraction by Periodic Structures (G Bao)Weak Flow of H-Systems (Y-M Chen)Strongly Compact Attractor for Dissipative Zakharov Equations (B-L Guo et al.)C∞-Solutions of Generalized Porous Medium Equations (M Ôtani & Y Sugiyama)Cauchy Problem for Generalized IMBq Equation (G-W Chen & S-B Wang)Inertial Manifolds for a Nonlocal Kuramoto–Sivashinsky Equation (J-Q Duan et al.)Weak Solutions of the Generalized Magnetic Flow Equations (S-H He & Z-D Dai)The Solution of Hammerstein Integral Equation Without Coercive Conditions (Y-L Shu)Global Behaviour of the Solution of Nonlinear Forest Evolution Equation (D-J Wang)Uniqueness of Generalized Solutions for Semiconductor Equations (J-S Xing & Y Hu)On the Vectorial Hamilton–Jacobi System (B-S Yan)An Integrable Hamiltonian System Associated with cKdV Hierarchy (J-S Zhang et al.)and other papers Readership: Mathematicians. Keywords:Diffraction;Weak Flow;Zakharov Equations;Porous Medium Equations;Cauchy Problem;IMBq Equation;Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation;Magnetic Flow Equations;Hammerstein Integral Equation;Nonlinear Forest Evolution Equation;Uniqueness;Generalized Solutions;Semiconductor Equations;Hamilton–Jacobi System;Hamiltonian System;cKdV Hierarchy