AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:29

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

Saturday April 28, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Stability of Nonlinear Dispersive Waves, I
Room 105, McLean Hall
Organizers:
Yi Li, Stevens Institute of Technology yili@cs.stevens-tech.edu
Keith S. Promislow, Simon Fraser University kpromisl@cs.sfu.ca
- 8:30 a.m.
  Absolute and convective instability of spiral waves.
  Bjorn Sandstede*, Ohio State University
  Arnd Scheel, FU Berlin
  (966-35-39)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Asymptotic decay of tails of dispersion managed soliton.
  Vadim Zharnitsky*, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
  (966-78-153)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Dispersive effects in a Kuramoto-Sivashinsky/KdV system.
  Alex Iosevich, University of Missouri
  Judith R Miller*, Georgetown University
  (966-35-108)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Modulation equations for long wavelength waves on a fluid subject to surface tension.
  C. E. Wayne*, Boston University
  (966-35-91)

Saturday April 28, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Stability of Nonlinear Dispersive Waves, II
Room 105, McLean Hall
Organizers:
Yi Li, Stevens Institute of Technology yili@cs.stevens-tech.edu
Keith S. Promislow, Simon Fraser University kpromisl@cs.sfu.ca
- 3:00 p.m.
  Scaling, Stability and Blow-up for Nonlinear Dispersive Equations: The Critcal Case.
  Jaime Angulo, IMECC, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brasil
  Jerry L Bona*, University of Texas at Austin
  Felipe Linares, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  Marcia Scialom, IMECC, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brasil
  (966-35-175)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Stability of waves in perturbed Hamiltonian systems.
  Todd M Kapitula*, University of New Mexico
  (966-35-195)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Instability of standing waves for coupled Nonlinear Schordinger Equations.
  Jian Deng*, Brown University
  (966-35-180)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Propagating Waves in Neuronal Networks.
  Alice C Yew*, The Ohio State University
  (966-34-142)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Special Session on Stability of Nonlinear Dispersive Waves, III
Room 105, McLean Hall
Organizers:
Yi Li, Stevens Institute of Technology yili@cs.stevens-tech.edu
Keith S. Promislow, Simon Fraser University kpromisl@cs.sfu.ca
- 8:00 a.m.
  Spectrally stable encapsulated-vortex solutions of focusing-defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations.
  Robert L Pego*, University of Maryland, College Park
  Henry A Warchall, University of North Texas
  (966-35-135)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A normal form for nonlinear resonance of embedded solitons.
  Dmitry E Pelinovsky*, McMaster University (Canada)
  Jianke Yang, University of Vermont
  (966-35-40)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Regular traveling waves in a one-dimensional network of theta neurons.
  Remus Osan, University of PIttsburgh
  Jonathan Rubin*, University of Pittsburgh
  Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
  (966-34-45)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Break
- 9:40 a.m.
  Nonlinear Dispersive Waves in Periodic Structures.
  Michael I Weinstein*, Mathematical Sciences Research - Bell Laboratories
  (966-35-167)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Pulse dynamics in coupled reaction-diffusion equations.
  Arjen Doelman, University of Amsterdam
  Tasso J Kaper*, Boston University
  (966-35-170)

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