AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:39

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Sunday April 13, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and Stability in Weakly Dissipative Systems, I
Room 0107, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Robert L. Pego, University of Maryland rlp@math.umd.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Invariant manifolds for a class of dispersive, Hamiltonian, partial differential equations
  Claude-Alain Pillet, Universit\'e de Gen\'eve, Switzerland
  Clarence E Wayne*, The Pennsylvania State University
  (920-35-96)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Time-dependent resonance theory
  Avy Soffer, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  Michael I Weinstein*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (920-35-124)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Resonances, radiation damping and instability in Hamiltonian nonlinear wave equations
  Avy Soffer*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  Michael I Weinstein, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (920-35-125)

Sunday April 13, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and Stability in Weakly Dissipative Systems, II
Room 0107, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Robert L. Pego, University of Maryland rlp@math.umd.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Linear stability of solitary waves with large surface tension
  Robert L Pego, University of Maryland, College Park
  Robert L Sachs*, George Mason University
  (920-35-184)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Fourier Splitting method for universal decay of nonlocally damped nonlinear waves
  Keith Promislow*, Simon Fraser University
  (920-35-216)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Weak travelling wave solutions of a perturbed Boussinesq system.
  Yi A. Li*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  (920-35-228)

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