AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:45

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

Saturday November 9, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Special Session on Asymptotics of Integrable Partial Differential Equations, Riemann-Hilbert Problem and Related Topics, I
Room 115, Business Administration
Organizers:
Ken T. R. McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Arizona mcl@amath.unc.edu
Alexander Tovbis, University of Central Florida tovbis@math.duke.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Applications of a complete asymptotic expansion for the partition function of random matrix theory.
  N. Ercolani, University of Arizona
  K D McLaughlin*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  (982-60-184)
- 9:15 a.m.
  Shallow water waves, rotating elastic shafts and Toda flows.
  Roberto Camassa*, University of North Carolina
  (982-35-248)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Explicit factorization of almost periodic matrix functions.
  I M Spitkovsky*, College of William and Mary
  (982-30-241)

Saturday November 9, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Asymptotics of Integrable Partial Differential Equations, Riemann-Hilbert Problem and Related Topics, II
Room 115, Business Administration
Organizers:
Ken T. R. McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Arizona mcl@amath.unc.edu
Alexander Tovbis, University of Central Florida tovbis@math.duke.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Generation of Undular Bores and Solitons in the Trailing Shelves of Slowly Varying Solitary Waves.
  Roger HJ Grimshaw*, Loughborough University
  (982-35-92)
- 3:15 p.m.
  New Results on the Zero Dispersion Limit of the KdV.
  Fei-Ran Tian*, Ohio State University
  (982-35-287)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Large Degree Asymptotics of Discrete Orthogonal Polynomials with General Weights.
  J. Baik, Princeton University
  T. Kriecherbauer, Ruhr University Bochum
  K. McLaughlin, Univerisity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  P. Miller*, University of Michigan
  (982-41-276)
- 4:45 p.m.
  An Isomonodromy Cluster of Two Regular Singularities and its Application to Random Matrices.
  Alexander V Kitaev*, Steklov Mathematical Institute, St. Petersburg, and University of Sydney
  (982-33-206)

Sunday November 10, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
Special Session on Asymptotics of Integrable Partial Differential Equations, Riemann-Hilbert Problem and Related Topics, III
Room 115, Business Administration
Organizers:
Ken T. R. McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Arizona mcl@amath.unc.edu
Alexander Tovbis, University of Central Florida tovbis@math.duke.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Calculation of the semiclassical limit of focusing NLS and its long time behavior.
  Stephanos Venakides*, Duke University
  (982-35-260)
- 9:45 a.m.
  Semi-classical (zero dispersion) limit solutions to the focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equations (NLS).
  Alexander Tovbis*, University of Central Florida
  (982-35-177)

Sunday November 10, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Asymptotics of Integrable Partial Differential Equations, Riemann-Hilbert Problem and Related Topics, IV
Room 115, Business Administration
Organizers:
Ken T. R. McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Arizona mcl@amath.unc.edu
Alexander Tovbis, University of Central Florida tovbis@math.duke.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Long-time asymptotics for solutins of the NLS equation with initial data in a weighted Sobolev space.
  P Deift*, Courant Institute
  X Zhou, Duke University
  (982-35-263)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Singular sector of the Burgers-Hopf hierarchy and integrable deformations of hyperelliptic curves.
  Yuji Kodama*, Ohio State University
  (982-58-122)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Some remarks on the Riemann-Hilbert problem in inverse scattering theory.
  Martin Klaus*, Virginia Tech
  (982-34-216)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Riemann-Hilbert problems, Whitham equations and Bergmann kernel.
  Tamara Grava*, SISSA
  (982-35-156)

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