AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:14

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Integrable Systems and Riemann-Hilbert Problems, I
Room 147, Educational Building
Organizers:
Xin Zhou, Duke University zhou@math.duke.edu
Kenneth McLaughlin, University of Arizona mcl@math.arizona.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Asymptotic Solution of the Second Harmonic Generation Equations.
  David J. Kaup*, Clarkson University
  (960-78-145)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Asymptotics for Racah Coefficients and Polynomials.
  Mourad E Ismail, University of South Florida
  Plamen C Simeonov*, University of Houston-Downtown
  (960-33-53)
- 3:50 p.m.
  The Defocusing Nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger Equation with Finite Density Initial Data: Leading Order Asymptotics via the Riemann-Hilbert Approach.
  Arthur H Vartanian*, Winthrop University
  (960-35-73)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Elementary and direct proof of Painleve property for Painleve equations.
  Min Yan*, Hong Kong U of Sci and Tech
  (960-34-92)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Commuting Differential Operators and Integrable Systems.
  Rudi Weikard*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (960-34-110)

Saturday November 11, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Integrable Systems and Riemann-Hilbert Problems, II
Room 147, Educational Building
Organizers:
Xin Zhou, Duke University zhou@math.duke.edu
Kenneth McLaughlin, University of Arizona mcl@math.arizona.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Statistical Mechanics and Algebraic Combinatorics.
  Vladimir E Korepin*, YITP, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (960-82-47)
- 9:10 a.m.
  Symplectic structures of the Painlev\'e test.
  Jishan Hu*, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  Min Yan, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  (960-00-171)
- 9:50 a.m.
  The RH problem in a semiclassical continuum limit.
  Stephen P Shipman*, Duke University
  (960-35-191)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Statistical properties of the Fourier spectrum of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation in the semi-classical limit.
  David Cai*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (960-35-265)

Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Integrable Systems and Riemann-Hilbert Problems, III
Room 147, Educational Building
Organizers:
Xin Zhou, Duke University zhou@math.duke.edu
Kenneth McLaughlin, University of Arizona mcl@math.arizona.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Semiclassical Distributions of Solitons: Complex Turning Point Theory for the Nonselfadjoint Zakharov-Shabat Eigenvalue Problem.
  Peter D Miller*, The University of Michigan
  (960-41-213)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Limiting distributions for a polynuclear growth model with external sources.
  Jinho Baik*, Princeton Univ. and IAS
  Eric M Rains, AT\&T Research
  (960-60-225)
- 4:20 p.m.
  The Eigenvalue Problem for the Focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation: New Solvable Cases.
  Alexander Tovbis*, University of Central Florida
  Stephanos Venakides, Duke University
  (960-35-232)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On the semi-classical limit of the focusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation.
  Spyros Kamvissis, Univ. of Patras, Greece
  Ken D McLaughlin*, UNC-Chapel Hill and Univ. of AZ.
  Peter D Miller, Univ. of Michigan
  (960-35-256)

Sunday November 12, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Special Session on Integrable Systems and Riemann-Hilbert Problems, IV
Room 147, Educational Building
Organizers:
Xin Zhou, Duke University zhou@math.duke.edu
Kenneth McLaughlin, University of Arizona mcl@math.arizona.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  $L^p$ estimates for solutions of Riemann-Hilbert Problems (RHP's) with coefficients depending on external parameters.
  Percy A Deift*, University of Pennsylvania and Courant Institute
  Xin Zhou, Duke University
  (960-30-150)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 10:50 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 11:30 a.m.
  Discussion.

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