AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:34

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

Friday October 24, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Current Topics in Optical Communications Systems, I
Room 385, Phillips Hall
Organizers:
Rudy Horne, University of North Carolina rhorne@amath.unc.edu
Tobias Schaefer, University of North Carolina tobiass@amath.unc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dispersion management for randomly varying optical fibers.
  Jamison T. Moeser*, University of Colorado
  Mark J. Ablowitz, University of Colorado
  (991-35-233)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Shedding and interaction of solitons in weakly disordered optical fibers.
  Y Chung*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  M Chertkov, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  A Dyachenko, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
  I Gabitov, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  I Kolokolov, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
  V Lebedev, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
  (991-78-110)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Critical broadening of optical pulses: importance sampling applied to a problem exhibiting stochastic resonance.
  Richard O. Moore*, Simon Fraser University
  Tobias Schaefer, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  Christopher K. R. T. Jones, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  (991-78-280)

Friday October 24, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Current Topics in Optical Communications Systems, II
Room 385, Phillips Hall
Organizers:
Rudy Horne, University of North Carolina rhorne@amath.unc.edu
Tobias Schaefer, University of North Carolina tobiass@amath.unc.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Randomly perturbed Integrable Systems in Optics.
  Jared C Bronski*, University of Illinois
  (991-78-286)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Optical pulse dynamics in nonlinear periodic structures.
  Alejandro B Aceves*, The University of New Mexico
  Tomas Dohnal, The University of New Mexico
  (991-78-77)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Nonlinear optics, fibers and photonic crystal fibers- new paths for signal processing?
  Fiorenzo G Omenetto*, Los Almaos National Laboratory
  (991-94-270)

Saturday October 25, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Current Topics in Optical Communications Systems, III
Room 385, Phillips Hall
Organizers:
Rudy Horne, University of North Carolina rhorne@amath.unc.edu
Tobias Schaefer, University of North Carolina tobiass@amath.unc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Interaction of sine-Gordon solitons with defects.
  Roy H. Goodman*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  (991-78-89)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Spectral analysis of NLS solitons relative to arbitrary backgrounds.
  Radu C Cascaval*, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
  (991-35-246)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Bifurcation and instability in coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations.
  Russell K. Jackson*, Boston University
  (991-78-156)

Saturday October 25, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Current Topics in Optical Communications Systems, IV
Room 385, Phillips Hall
Organizers:
Rudy Horne, University of North Carolina rhorne@amath.unc.edu
Tobias Schaefer, University of North Carolina tobiass@amath.unc.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Effects of perturbations on collisions between optical solitons.
  Avner Peleg*, LANL
  (991-78-91)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Periodic-group-delay modules in optical fiber communications and collision-induced timing jitter.
  Gino Biondini*, Ohio State University
  (991-35-87)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Existence and Stability of Short Optical Pulses in a Model of Mixed Type.
  N Costanzino*, Brown University and UNC - Chapel Hill
  (991-35-191)

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