AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 11, 2006 00:30:38

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Friday November 3, 2006, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Evolution Equations in Physics and Mechanics, I
Room 405, Science and Engineering Building
Organizers:
John P. Albert, University of Oklahoma jalbert@aftermath.math.ou.edu
Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jiahong Wu, Oklahoma State University
- 2:45 p.m.
  Well-posedness of regularized Benjamin-Ono-type equations.
  Jerry L Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Hongqiu Chen*, University of Memphis
  (1022-35-36)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Solitary or localized surface waves in water with surface tension.
  Shu-Ming Sun*, Virginia Tech
  (1022-76-56)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Control and Stabilization of a Family of Boussinesq Systems.
  Bing-Yu Zhang*, University of Cincinnati
  Sorin Micu, Universitatea din Craiova (Romania)
  Jaime H. Ortega, Universidad de Chile
  Lionel Rosier, Institut \'Elie Carta, University of Nancy I
  (1022-35-94)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 4:45 p.m.
  Nonlinear instability of a critical traveling wave in the generalized Korteweg -- de Vries equation.
  Andrew Comech*, Texas A&M University
  Scipio Cuccagna, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
  Dmitry Pelinovsky, McMaster University
  (1022-35-106)

Saturday November 4, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Evolution Equations in Physics and Mechanics, II
Room 405, Science and Engineering Building
Organizers:
John P. Albert, University of Oklahoma jalbert@aftermath.math.ou.edu
Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jiahong Wu, Oklahoma State University
- 9:00 a.m.
  Fractional derivatives of Airy functions and Korteweg-de Vries-type equations.
  Vladimir V Varlamov*, University of Texas Pan American
  (1022-35-75)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A dual-Petrov-Galerkin method for the Kawahara-type equation.
  Jie Shen, Purdue University
  Jiahong Wu, Oklahoma State University
  Juan-Ming Yuan*, Providence University
  (1022-65-61)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Global Solutions and Wave-Breaking Phenomena for the Degasperis-Procesi Equation.
  Yue Liu*, University of Texas at Arlington
  Zhaoyang Yin, Institute for Applied Math., University of Hanover
  (1022-76-25)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the stability of KdV multi-solitons.
  John P. Albert*, University of Oklahoma
  Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Nghiem V. Nguyen, Purdue University
  (1022-35-79)

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