AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:44

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W Wistar Comfort, AMS wcomfort@wesleyan.edu

Saturday October 20, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Non-linear Dynamics in Mathematics and Science, I
Room 126, Hasbrouck Laboratory
- 8:00 a.m.
  Meromorphic nonlinear integrable systems.
  Solomon J. Alber*, University of Pennsylvania
  (860-35-117)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Transient solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations.
  D. Sather*, University of Colorado, Boulder
  (860-76-11)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Calculus of variations and Besicovitch dynamics.
  M. S. Berger, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Y. Y. Chen*, Princeton University
  (860-34-113)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Properties of travelling waves in a suspension bridge.
  A. C. Lazer, University of Miami
  P. J. McKenna*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  (860-35-111)

Saturday October 20, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
Special Session on Non-linear Dynamics in Mathematics and Science, II
Room 126, Hasbrouck Laboratory
- 1:45 p.m.
  Chaotic spikes arising from a model of bursting in excitable membranes.
  David Terman*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (860-92-116)
- 2:15 p.m.
  Existence and stability of travelling wave solutions.
  Roger Lui*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  (860-35-70)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Nonlinear development of detonation instabilities.
  Victor Roytburd*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  (860-76-106)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Weak shocks for a lambda-omega system are stable.
  Todd Kapitula*, Brown University
  (860-35-78)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Nonphysical limits of solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations for compressible flow.
  David Hoff*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  Denis Serre, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
  (860-35-36)

Sunday October 21, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Non-linear Dynamics in Mathematics and Science, III
Room 126, Hasbrouck Laboratory
- 8:00 a.m.
  A geometrical study of an equation for a floating beam.
  Alan C. Lazer*, University of Miami
  P. Joseph McKenna, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  (860-35-115)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Elliptic KP flows.
  Emma Previato*, Boston University
  (860-58-69)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Functional and numerical analyses of nonlinear dynamical systems.
  Peter J. Costa*, Raytheon Company, Wayland, Massachusetts
  Ruth Hampton Westlake, Raytheon Company, Wayland, Massachusetts
  (860-46-68)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discussion

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