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2002 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
Boston, MA, October 5-6, 2002
Meeting #979

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

Special Session on The Mathematics of Water Waves

  • Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on The Mathematics of Water Waves, I
    Room 140, Dodge Hall
    Organizers:
    Diane Henderson, Pennsylvania State University dmh@math.psu.edu
    Gene Wayne, Boston University cew@math.bu.edu

    • 8:30 a.m.
      Rigorous approximations of water waves.
      Guido Schneider, University of Karlsruhe
      C. Eugene Wayne*, Boston University
      (979-35-79)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Existence, Analyticity, and Stable Computation of Traveling Water Waves.
      David P Nicholls*, University of Notre Dame
      (979-76-124)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Boussinesq models of shallow water waves.
      Min Chen*, University of Central Florida
      (979-76-234)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Higher order corrections to KdV approximations.
      J. Douglas Wright*, Boston University
      (979-35-117)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Hamiltonians and long wave expansions for the dynamics of free surfaces and interfaces.
      Walter Craig*, McMaster University
      Philippe Guyenne, McMaster University
      Henrik Kalisch, Lund University
      (979-76-80)

  • Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
    Special Session on The Mathematics of Water Waves, II
    Room 140, Dodge Hall
    Organizers:
    Diane Henderson, Pennsylvania State University dmh@math.psu.edu
    Gene Wayne, Boston University cew@math.bu.edu

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Stability and instability of periodic plane waves in deep water.
      Harvey Segur*, University of Colorado
      Diane M Henderson, Pennsylvania State University
      Katherine Socha, Michigan State University
      (979-76-184)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Instability of Bounded Solutions of the 2-D Cubic Nolinear Schr\"odinger Equation.
      John Carter*, Seattle University
      (979-35-186)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Nonlocal perturbations and the stability of stationary solutions of the NLS equation.
      Bernard Deconinck*, Colorado State University
      J Nathan Kutz, University of Washington
      (979-35-78)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Blow-up solutions of the vector nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation.
      James Coleman, University of Toronto
      Catherine Sulem*, University of Toronto
      (979-35-171)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Fifth Order Perturbation Solution for Gravity-Capillary Standing Waves in Fluid of Finite Depth.
      Sergey Sekerzh-Zenkovich*, Universidad de Guadalajara
      (979-76-59)
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