2013 Conference Theme Statement

Research Statement June 2013

My research work centers around two broad topics: The analysis of nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (PDE) of elliptic and parabolic type (mainly free boundary problems and reaction-diffusion equations) and the study of transport phenomena (particularly the connection between kinetic and hydrodynamic models). My main contributions are described below (preprints are available at http://www...

Research Statement 2013

Today’s software is becoming increasingly complex as programmers strive to meet the growing sophistication of users’ demands and expectations. Advances in programming languages and software engineering have helped programmers to manage this complexity and improve the quality of their software. There are now many automated program analysis tools for detecting potential bugs quickly or even preve...

2013 Conference Organization

The 2013 Conference

s: Plenaries 1 Ageing 2 Census 7 Ethnicity 14 Families & households 23 Fertility & reproductive health 31 Health & mortality 40 Historical demography 48 Intergenerational transmissions 53 Life course linkages 55 Local government & planning 57 Methods & models 60 Migration 67 Population change, environment, resources & conflict 76 Posters 80 Workshops & training sessions 104 Index to contributor...

Bacterial infections in cirrhosis: a position statement based on the EASL Special Conference 2013.

Bacterial infections are very common and represent one of the most important reasons of progression of liver failure, development of liver-related complications, and mortality in patients with cirrhosis. In fact, bacterial infections may be a triggering factor for the occurrence of gastrointestinal bleeding, hypervolemic hyponatremia, hepatic encephalopathy, kidney failure, and development of a...