AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:01

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamics, I
Room 7.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
Organizers:
Robert J. McCann, University of Toronto mccann@math.toronto.edu
Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto sulem@math.toronto.edu
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 4:30 p.m.
  Formation of singularities in solutions of the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the half line.
  Hayato Nawa*, Nagoya University
  (948-35-202)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Nonlinear stability and bifurcation in Optical Parametric Oscillators.
  Keith S. Promislow*, Simon Fraser University
  J. Nathan Kutz, University of Washington
  (948-47-237)

Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamics, II
Room 7.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
Organizers:
Robert J. McCann, University of Toronto mccann@math.toronto.edu
Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto sulem@math.toronto.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Time-dependent solutions of the Benjamin Equation.
  Juan Mario Restrepo*, Mathematics Deparment, University of Arizona
  James Hyman, T-7 Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  (948-35-223)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Time-Evolving Interfaces in Viscous Flows.
  Mary Catherine A Kropinski*, Simon Fraser University
  (948-76-269)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A New Approach to Analytic Continuation of Dirichlet-Neumann Operators Upon Boundary Variations.
  David P Nicholls*, University of Minnesota
  (948-35-283)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion.

Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamics, III
Room 7.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
Organizers:
Robert J. McCann, University of Toronto mccann@math.toronto.edu
Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto sulem@math.toronto.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Soliton perturbations and the random Kepler problem.
  Jared C Bronski*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Fatkhulla Kh Abdullaev, Physical/Technical Institute, Tashkent
  George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
  (948-34-314)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Optimal Transportation on Manifolds with Obstacles.
  Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin
  Robert J McCann*, University of Toronto
  (948-49-241)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Stability and Instability of Ginzburg-Landau Vortices.
  Stephen J Gustafson*, University of Toronto
  (948-35-251)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On a nonlinear heat equation.
  Changfeng Gui*, University of Connecticut and University of British Columbia
  (948-35-46)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On a p-Laplacian Type of Evolution System Arising from Bean's Superconductivity Theory.
  Hong-Ming Yin*, Washongton State University
  (948-35-35)

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