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2003 Joint Central and Western Section Meeting
Boulder, CO, October 2-4, 2003
Meeting #989

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Special Session on Nonlinear Waves

  • Thursday October 2, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, I
    Room 1B 55 (Basement), Engineering Center (ECCR)
    Organizers:
    Bernard Deconinck, Colorado State University deconinc@math.colostate.edu
    Harvey Segur, University of Colorado Boulder Harvey.Segur@colorado.edu

    • 9:00 a.m.
      Nonlinear fluid convection: from solitons to turbulence.
      Darryl D. Holm*, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Mathematics Department, Imperial College, London
      (989-35-203)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      The modulation theory for the Camassa-Holm equation.
      T. Grava*, SISSA, Italy
      S. Abenda, University of Bologna, Italy
      (989-35-217)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Extremal eigenvalue problems, nonlinear waves, and the Kuramoto-Sivashinky equation.
      J. C. Bronski*, Univerity of Illinios, Urbana-Champaign
      (989-35-219)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Fermi surfaces and dynamical systems.
      S. P. Novikov*, University of Maryland and Landau Institute
      (989-35-220)

  • Thursday October 2, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, II
    Room 1B 55 (Basement), Engineering Center (ECCR)
    Organizers:
    Bernard Deconinck, Colorado State University deconinc@math.colostate.edu
    Harvey Segur, University of Colorado Boulder Harvey.Segur@colorado.edu

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Extreme Nonlinear Optics (1).
      H. Kapteyn*, University of Colorado, Boulder
      M. Murnane, University of Colorado, Boulder
      (989-35-221)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Extreme Nonlinear Optics (2).
      M. Murnane*, University of Colorado, Boulder
      H. Kapteyn, University of Colorado, Boulder
      (989-35-222)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Two-Dimensional Solitons in Optically Modulated Waveguide Arrays: An Optical Analog of Bose-Einstein Condensation.
      M. J. Ablowitz, University of Colorado, Boulder
      K. Julien*, University of Colorado, Boulder
      Z. H. Musslimani, University of Colorado, Boulder
      (989-35-223)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Multidimensional solitons in a low-dimensional periodic potential.
      B. A. Malomed*, Tel Aviv University, Israel
      (989-35-228)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Analysis of spectral stability for vortices in nonlinear Schrodinger equations.
      R. L. Pego*, University of Maryland
      (989-35-230)

  • Friday October 3, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, III
    Room 1B 55 (Basement), Engineering Center (ECCR)
    Organizers:
    Bernard Deconinck, Colorado State University deconinc@math.colostate.edu
    Harvey Segur, University of Colorado Boulder Harvey.Segur@colorado.edu

    • 9:00 a.m.
      Poisson brackets on meromorphic functions on hyperelliptic Riemann surfaces and 1D integrable hierarchies.
      K. Vaninsky*, Michigan State University
      (989-34-231)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      A generalized Dirichlet to Neumann map for integrable evolution equations.
      B. Pelloni*, Reading University, UK
      (989-35-233)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Resonant solutions of the KP equation and the Toda lattice hierarchy.
      G. Biondini*, Ohio State University
      (989-35-232)

  • Friday October 3, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, IV
    Room 1B 55 (Basement), Engineering Center (ECCR)
    Organizers:
    Bernard Deconinck, Colorado State University deconinc@math.colostate.edu
    Harvey Segur, University of Colorado Boulder Harvey.Segur@colorado.edu

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Nonlinear dynamics with matter waves - experiments with Bose-Einstein condensates.
      P. W. Engels*, University of Colorado, Boulder
      (989-35-234)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Turning fermions into bosons.
      D. S. Jin*, University of Colorado, Boulder
      (989-35-235)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Nonlinear Waves in BEC: A Collection of Short Stories.
      P. G. Kevrekidis*, University of Massachusetts
      (989-35-244)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Self-Trapping of Light in a Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Periodic Structure.
      Z. Musslimani*, Central Florida University
      (989-35-246)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Dynamics of periodic multi-component Bose-Einstein condensates.
      B. Deconinck*, University of Washington
      (989-35-247)

  • Saturday October 4, 2003, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
    Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, V
    Room 1B 55 (Basement), Engineering Center (ECCR)
    Organizers:
    Bernard Deconinck, Colorado State University deconinc@math.colostate.edu
    Harvey Segur, University of Colorado Boulder Harvey.Segur@colorado.edu

    • 10:00 a.m.
      Stabilizing the Benjamin-Feir instability.
      H. Segur*, University of Colorado, Boulder
      (989-35-248)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Continuous and Discrete Homotopy Operators with Applications in Integrability Testing.
      W. Hereman*, Colorado School of Mines
      (989-35-250)
    • 11:00 a.m.
      Lab Tours (0).
      B. Deconinck*, University of Washington
      H. Segur, University of Colorado, Boulder
      (989-35-261)
    • 11:30 a.m.
      Lab Tours (1): Bose-Einstein condensates.
      P. W. Engels*, University of Colorado, Boulder
      (989-35-262)
    • 12:00 p.m.
      Lab Tours (2).
      H. Kapteyn*, University of Colorado, Boulder
      M. Murnane, University of Colorado, Boulder
      (989-35-263)
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