Palestinian Conference on Modern Trends in Mathematics and Physics II

Faculty of Science, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine.

2-4 August 2010

Conference Program

 

Day 1: Monday, 2 August 2010.

 

Session I	Opening Session at  Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Theatre
9:00 – 9:05 9:05 – 9:15     9:15 – 9:25	Introduction and PNA Welcoming message:  Prof. Rami Hamdalla ( President of An-Najah National University) Welcome & Overview of  PCMTMP II: Prof. Sami AL-Jaber ( Conference Chairman )

 

NOTE: All Presentations will be held at Faculty of Science's Auditorium lecture Hall (Which is about 2-3 minutes walking north east of the Theatre)  

 

Plenary Talk	Chair:  Prof. Sami M. AL-Jaber
9:40 – 10:20	Polarization fingerprints in the clear sky Sir. Prof. Michael Berry Physics Department, Bristol University, UK.

 

10:20 – 10:50

Coffee Break

 

Session II : 10:50 -12:35	Chair:  Prof. Ulrich Eckern
10:50 – 11:05	Extraordinary optical transmission revisited: how light gets through isolated or periodic arrays of sub wavelength slits and holes (or not). Prof. John Weiner NIST/CNST Gaithersburg, USA
11:05 – 11:20	Advanced meshing methods for complex multi-physics applications Dr. Ahmad Khamayseh Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
11:20 -11:35	Particle acceleration by radially-polarized laser beams Prof. Yousef Salamin Physics Department, American University of Sharjah, UAE
11:35 – 11:50	Correlations effects and magnetism in transport properties of single molecules Prof. Ferdinand Evers Karlsuhe Institute of Technology, Germany
11:50 – 12:05	The equation of state and thermodynamic properties of nuclear matter at low densities Prof. Henry Jaqaman UNESCO Chair of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Bir Zeit University, Palestine
12:05 – 12:20	Correlation of backscattered and recoil ions in violent ion-atom collisions by coincident Rutherford backscattering spectrometry Dr. Hanan Sa'adeh Department of Physics, University of Jordan, Jordan
12:20 – 12:35	An investigation of the size-dependent cohesive energy of spherical metallic nano-particles. Prof. Thabit Barakat Department of Physics, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

 

12:40 – 1:50

Lunch at Main University Restaurant ( Next to Lecture Hall )

 

Session III 2:00 – 3:30	Chair:  Prof. Henry Jaqaman
2:00 – 2:15	The international organization for medical physics[IOMP] – structure, aims and activities to advance medical physics globally. Prof. Fridtjof Nuesslin Technische Universität München, Germany
2:15 – 2:30	What medical physics is about – a brief tour d'horizon Prof. Fridtjof Nuesslin Technische Universität München, Germany
2:30 – 2:45	Distribution and clustering of sialic acids on single mucins and mucous gels Dr. Monica Berry Academic Unit of Ophthalmology and HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, UK.
2:45 – 3:00	Contribution to the study of a mathematical model of Erythropoisis (Red Blood cell production). Ms. Rana Abu Eisheh Department of Mathematics, Palestine Polytechnique University, Palestine.
3:00 – 3:15	Spectroscopic study of the interaction of human serum albumin with steroid hormones "progesterone and its parent compound cholesterol Dr. Jafar H. Ghithan Department of Physics, AL-Quds University/Abue Deis, Palestine
3:15 – 3:30	Spectroscopic investigations of pentobarbital interaction with human serum albumin. Dr. Swasan Abu Sharkh Physics department, AL-Quds University/Abue Deis, Palestine

 

 

3:30 – 3:55

Coffee Break

 

 

Plenary talk	Chair: Prof. Edriss Titi
4:00 – 4:40	Adaptive mesh generation and moving mesh methods Prof. Robert Russell Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

 

 

Session IV 4:40 – 6:10	Chair: Prof. John Gibbon
4:40 – 4:55	Computing slowly advancing features in fast-slow systems without scale separation – A young measure approach Prof. Edriss Titi Department of Mathematics, UCI, USA
4:55 – 5:10	Decay rates to a Cauchy viscoelastic problem with singular kernel Dr. Mohammad Kafini Department of Mathematics, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
5:10 – 5:25	On A-rings: A generalization of integral domains Dr. Ayman Badawi Department of Mathematics, American University of Sharjah, UAE.
5:25 – 5:40	The spectrum of the coloration matrix for the complete partite graph. Dr. Subhi Ruzieh Department of Mathematics, An-Najah National University, Palestine.
5:40 – 5:55	Empirical retrospective power: Background, planning and use. Dr. Monjed Samuh Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua, Italy.
5:55 – 6:10	On the strong uniform consistency of a conditional mode estimator for randomly left truncated time series. Dr. Abdelkader Tatachak Department de Probabilit'es et Statistique, U.S.T.H.B, Algeria

 

7:00 – 8:00

Walking Tour in the old city of Nablus ( Optional)

 

8:00 – 10:00

Dinner at AL-Yasmeen hotel

 

 

 

Day 2: Tuesday, August 3, 2010.

 

 

Plenary Talk	Chair: Prof. Annick Suzor Weiner
8:40 – 9:20	Persistent currents in normal metal rings: Old questions, new answers Prof. Ulrich Eckern Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, Germany.

 

Session V 9:20 – 10:35	Chair: Prof. Michael Berry
9:20 – 9:35	From neutron stars to Tokamaks: another way for solving the energy problem of the world. Dr. Ahmad Hujeirat LSU, Heidelberg, Germany
9:35 – 9:50	Some aspects of approximation techniques applied to quantum systems in multi-dimensional space. Prof. Sami M. AL-Jaber Department of Physics, An-Najah National University, Palestine.
9:50 – 10:05	The end of darkness: The Universe's first billion years. Dr. Saleem Zaroubi University of Groningen, Netherlands
10: 05 – 10:20	The wave equation with energy-dependent potentials. The linear case. Prof. Roland Lombard Institut de Physique Nucleaire, Orsay, France.
10:20 – 10:35	Nanoalloys: Playing fields of Alchemists revisited and refined. Prof. Talat Rahman Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, USA.

 

10:35 – 11:05

Coffee Break

 

 

Plenary Talk	Chair: Prof. Ferdinad Evers
11:05 – 11:45	Spin Hall effect in a two – dimensional electron gas Prof. Roberto Raimondi CNISM and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita Roma Tre, Italy

 

 

Session VI 11:45 – 1:00	Chair: Prof. John Weiner
11:45 – 12:00	Project of modeling ion heating and wave-particle interaction in the magnetosphere of the earth. Prof. Imad Barghouthi Department of Physics, AL-Quds Univesity, Abu Deis, Palestine
12:00 – 12:15	Modeling of the current – voltage characteristics in the quantum Hall effect. Prof. Mohammad Abu Samreh Department of Physics, AL-Quds Univesity, Abu Deis, Palestine
12:15 – 12:30	Effect of infrared laser on the activation energy of CR-39 solid state nuclear track detector. Dr. Nidal Dwaikat Department of Physics, An-Najah National University, Palestine.
12:30 – 12:45	Validation of a computational fluid dynamics code (CASTEM) on some simple cases. Mr. Ahmad Azzam Bassalat University of Paris Sud XI, France.
12:45 – 1:00	Characterization of nonlinear properties on nano guides in Silicon. Mrs. Hadil Abu AL Rob University of Paris Sud XI, France.

 

1:00 – 2:15

University Main Restaurant (Next to Lecture Hall )

 

Plenary Talk	Chair: Prof. Saber Elaydi
2:15 – 2:55	Critical points at infinity in the variational calculus: An overview. Prof. Abbas Bahri Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, USA.

 

Session VII 2:55 – 3:55	Chair: Prof. Robert Russell
2:55 – 3:10	Loss of smoothness and energy conservation in the 3D Euler equation with rough initial data. Prof. Claude Bardos Department of Mathematics, University of Paris 7, France.
3:10 – 3:25	Bifurcation and invariant manifolds in competition models. Prof. Saber Elaydi Department of Mathematics, Trinity University, USA.
3:25 – 3:40	Mathematical modeling of faith and transport of underground water pollution. Prof. Fathi Allan Department of Mathematical Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, UAE.
3:40 – 3:55	Global PDF attractors of Sturm type. Prof. Bernold Fiedler Institute of Mathematics, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

 

3:55 – 4:25

Coffee Break

 

Session VIII 4:25 – 5:40	Chair: Prof. Abbas Bahri
4:25 – 4:40	Coupled Parallel flow through porous layers of variable thicknesses. Prof. Mohammad Hamdan Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Canada. Presented by: Prof. Fathi Allan Department of Mathematical Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, UAE.
4:40 – 4:55	Strong solutions to a nonlinear fluid structure interaction system. Dr. Amjad Tuffaha Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, USA.
4:55 – 5:10	Pinto's human decision bussola. Dr. Abdelrahim Musa University of Minho, Portugal.
5:10 5:25	On Interpolation in Hardy – Orlicz spaces Prof. Mahmud Masri Department of Mathematics, An-Najah National University, Palestine.
5:25 – 5:40	Some Theorems on fractional integration of multivariable H-function and their applications. Prof. Mohammad A. Hussain Department of Mathematics, Veer Kunwar University, India.
5:40 – 5:55	Overlapping domain decomposition methods for elliptic quasi-variational inequalities related to impulse control problem. Dr. Salah Boulaaras I.H. F. R, Algeria.

 

 

8:00 – 10:00

Live Soft Music Dinner at University Main Restaurant

 

 

Day 3: Wednesday, August 4, 2010.

 

 

9:00 – 10:00	Chair: Prof. Claude Bardos
Plenary Talk 9:00 – 9:40	The dynamics of the gradient of potential vorticity. Prof. John Gibbon Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London, UK.
9:40 – 9:55         9:55 – 10:00	Priority needs of Palestinian Universities that could be met through international academic cooperation. Prof. Annick Suzor-Weiner Counselor for Science and Technology Embassy of France, Washington, USA. Commentary: Dr. Suleiman Khalil  Dean of Faculty of Science, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine.

 

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break

 

Session IX 10:30 – 11:45	Chair: Prof. Fathi Allan
10:30 – 10:45	Algebraic properties of truncated Toeplitz operators. Mr. Muath Karaki Mathematics Department, Universite claude Bernard Lyon 1, France.
10:45 – 11:00	Special boundary integral equations for approximate solutions of Laplace's equation in multi-dimensional regions Dr. Y. Zahaykah Department of Mathematics, AL Quds University, Palestine.
11:00 – 11:15	Matrix representation of molecular graph Dr. Mukhtar Salah Department of Mathematics, AL-Quds University, Palestine.
11:15 – 11:30	Closness centrality and epidemic spreading in networks. Mr. Fares Rabay'a An-Najah National University, Palestine.
11:30 – 11:45	The square root of 2 x 2 matrices. Mr. Ihab AL Tamimi Department of Mathematics, Palestine Polytechnique University, Palestine.

 

Plenary Talk	Chair: Prof. Yousef Salamin
11:45 – 12:25	Materials research prospects in Palestine, case history; Semiconductor research at Najah. Prof. Hikmat Hilal Department of chemistry, An-Najah national University, Palestine.

 

12:25 – 1:45

Lunch at Main University Restaurant

 

Session X 1:45 – 3:00	Chair: Prof. Roberto Raimondi
1:45 – 2:00	The rise of Graphene: Synthesis, properties and novel applications. Prof. Samy EL-Shall Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA.
2:00 – 2:15	A comparative study for structural and electronic properties of ScN compound. Dr. Rezek Estaiteh College of applied Sciences, Palestine Technical University, Palestine.
2:15 – 2:30	Plasma assisted deposition of TiN-Ag ceramic/ metal composite coatings. Dr. Shehdeh Jodeh Department of Chemistry, An-Najah National University, Palestine.
2:30 – 2:45	ZnO under direct sun light, replaced CdS@TiO2 particles in photo-degradation of phenazopyridine. Dr. Ahed Zayoud Department of Chemistry, An-Najah National University, Palestine.
2:45 – 3:00	Hydrogen uptake in nano-sized metallic and bimetallic clusters. Dr. Mohammad Shtaya Department of Chemistry, An-Najah National University, Palestine.

 

3:00 – 3:30

Coffee Break

 

Session XI 3:30 – 5:00	Chair: Prof. Samy EL-Shall
3:30 – 3:45	A confined hydrogen atom in higher space dimensions Mrs. Muzaian Shaqur Department of Physics, An-Najah National University, Palestine
3:45 – 4:00	Weyl and Weyl picture of quantum mechanics: An inverse problem for the Schrodinger operator. Dr. Augusto Gerolin University of Joseph-Fourier, France.
4:00 – 4:15	The effect of noise pollution in arterial blood pressure and heart pulse rate on schools' children at Jenin city – Palestine. Ms. Roba Saeed Department of Physics, An-Najah National University, Palestine.
4:15 – 4:30	Guiding of 60 kev O6+ ions through nanocapillaries in an uncoated Al2O3 membrane. Dr. Csert Ml Lanzhou University, USA.
4:30 – 4:45	First principle study of Zincblende Fe­xGa1-xN alloys. Mr. Mahmoud M. Eissa Department of Physics, An-Najah National University, Palestine.
4:45 – 5:00	Simulation of the location of the earth bow shock by using PIC EM relativistic code. Dr. Suleiman Baraka Department of Physics, ALaqsa University, Gaza, Palestine.
5:00 – 5:15	Lagrangain formulation of fractional field systems. Prof. Sami Muslih Department of Physics, AL-Azhar University, Gaza, Palestine.
5:15 – 5:30	The intersection operation in light of the concept of joint observables in fuzzy probability theory. Dr. Taghreed Zaki Nasr Department of Mathematics, AL-Aqsa University, Gaza, Palestne.

 

 

Poster Presentations: To be displayed at 10:30 Tuesday at Entrance of the  Auditorium Lecture Hall.

 

1.    Effect of surface charge discretization on electric double layer

Dr. Khawla Qamhieh and Kirfit Amleh

Physics Department, AL-Quds University, Palestine.

 

2.    Liouville type theorems for biharmonic maps

Dr. Seddik Quakkas

Universite de Saida, Algerie.

 

3.    Local existence and exponential growth for a nonlinear vscoelastic hyperbolic equation

Dr. Khaled Zennir

Universite Badji Mokhtar, Algerie.

 

4.    Indium oxide co-doped with tin and zinc (ITZO): preparation of highly conducting and high density targets for TCO thin-film fabrication.

Dr. Iyad Sadeddin

Department of Physics, An-Najah National University, Palestine.