AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:32

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

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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