AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:28

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

Saturday April 21, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Waves in Heterogeneous Media, I
Room 219, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Randall J. LeVeque, University of Washington rjl@amath.washington.edu
Knut Solna, University of California Irvine ksolna@math.uci.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Imaging in a random environment.
  George C Papanicolaou*, Department of Mathematics Stanford University
  (965-60-208)
- 9:05 a.m.
  Absence of slow time behaviour in waves in random media.
  Abel Klein*, University of California, Irvine
  (965-35-141)
- 9:40 a.m.
  break
- 10:00 a.m.
  Turbulence Induced Beam Spreading of Higher Order Mode Optical Waves.
  Cynthia Y Hopen*, University of Central Florida
  Yadira V Gilchrest, Department of Mathematics, UCF
  Brian R Macon, Department of Mathematics, UCF
  (965-33-77)
- 10:25 a.m.
  Nonlinear wave propagation in random layered media.
  J B Thoo*, Yuba College
  J K Hunter, Univ. of California, Davis
  (965-35-192)

Saturday April 21, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Waves in Heterogeneous Media, II
Room 219, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Randall J. LeVeque, University of Washington rjl@amath.washington.edu
Knut Solna, University of California Irvine ksolna@math.uci.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Nonlinear wave interaction in periodic dielectric media.
  Alexander Figotin*, University of California at Irvine
  (965-78-53)
- 3:35 p.m.
  Random Scattering in Magnetotellurics.
  Benjamin S. White*, ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research
  Werner E. Kohler, Virginia Polytechnic Inst and State Univ
  Leonard J. Srnka, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
  (965-86-225)
- 4:10 p.m.
  break
- 4:30 p.m.
  High Resolution Radar via Precursors.
  Tim Olson*, University of Florida
  (965-78-226)
- 5:05 p.m.
  Numerical Computation of Wave Propagation in Dynamic Materials.
  Suzanne L Weekes*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  (965-65-134)
- 5:35 p.m.
  Bounds for group velocity of electromagnetic signals.
  Knut Solna*, University of CA at Irvine
  (965-00-171)

Sunday April 22, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Waves in Heterogeneous Media, III
Room 219, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Randall J. LeVeque, University of Washington rjl@amath.washington.edu
Knut Solna, University of California Irvine ksolna@math.uci.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Multiscale Computational Methods for Flow and Transport in Strongly Heterogeneous Porous Media.
  Thomas Y Hou*, Caltech
  (965-65-81)
- 9:05 a.m.
  Three Point Finite Difference Schemes, Pade, and the Spectral Galerkin Method.
  Vladimir Druskin, Schlumberger-Doll Research
  Shari Moskow*, University of Florida
  (965-65-221)
- 9:40 a.m.
  break
- 10:00 a.m.
  Inversion of seismic data using a scattering angle transform.
  Christiaan C Stolk*, Rice University
  (965-35-191)
- 10:25 a.m.
  Finite Volume Methods for Elasto-Plastic Waves in Heterogeneous Media.
  Tiernan R Fogarty*, Applied Math Department, University of Washington
  (965-65-163)

Sunday April 22, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Waves in Heterogeneous Media, IV
Room 219, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Randall J. LeVeque, University of Washington rjl@amath.washington.edu
Knut Solna, University of California Irvine ksolna@math.uci.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Derivation of transport for Schr\"odinger equations in the high frequency regime with fast oscillatory time-dependent potential.
  Guillaume Bal*, University of Chicago
  George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
  Leonid Ryzhik, University of Chicago
  (965-35-193)
- 3:35 p.m.
  Polarization Phenomena in Heterogeneous Media.
  Arnold D Kim*, Stanford University
  Miguel Moscoso, Stanford University
  (965-78-19)
- 4:10 p.m.
  break
- 4:30 p.m.
  Embedded Finite Difference Methods for Wave Problems in Complex Geometries and Heterogeneous Media.
  Jan S Hesthaven*, Brown University
  (965-65-79)
- 5:05 p.m.
  Solving boundary-value problems for systems of hyperbolic conservation laws with rapidly varying coefficients.
  Darryl H Yong*, Harvey Mudd College
  (965-35-114)

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