AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 11, 2008 00:27:40

2008 Fall Western Section Meeting
Vancouver, Canada, October 4-5, 2008 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1041

• Saturday October 4, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, I
  Room 126, Chemistry Building
  Organizers:
  Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington bernard@amath.washington.edu
  Jeffrey DiFranco, Seattle University difranco@seattleu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the semiclassical limit of the sine-Gordon equation.
    Peter D Miller*, The University of Michigan
    (1041-35-235)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Analytically determining the spectra of stationary solutions of the focusing and defocusing NLS equations.
    Nate Bottman*, University of Washington
    Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington
    (1041-35-158)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Coarsening to chaos-stabilized fronts in spatiotemporal chaos.
    Ralf W Wittenberg*, Simon Fraser University
    Ka Fai Poon, Simon Fraser University
    (1041-35-275)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic stability in some nonlinear Schroedinger-type equations.
    Stephen Gustafson*, University of British Columbia
    (1041-35-260)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stability of One-dimenstional Water Waves.
    Katie L Oliveras*, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
    Bernard Deconinck, Department of Applied Math, University of Washington
    (1041-35-206)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Semiclassical Modified Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation: Spectral Analysis.
    Jeffery C DiFranco*, Seattle University
    Peter Miller, University of Michigan
    (1041-35-254)
• Sunday October 5, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, II
  Room 126, Chemistry Building
  Organizers:
  Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington bernard@amath.washington.edu
  Jeffrey DiFranco, Seattle University difranco@seattleu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Self-Replicating Localized Spot Solutions for Reaction-Diffusion Systems in Two Space Dimensions.
    Michael J Ward*, Dept. of Mathematics, University of British Columbia
    (1041-35-48)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the Convergence of Hill's Method.
    Christopher W. Curtis*, University of Washington
    Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington
    (1041-65-79)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Short-wavelength phenomena in spatially discrete systems.
    Harish Bhat*, University of California, Merced
    Braxton Osting, Columbia University
    Ehsan Afshari, Cornell University
    (1041-34-293)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Surface wave generated by a positive forcing due to an obsruction.
    Jeongwhan Choi*, Korea University
    Shu-Ming Sun, Virginia Tech
    Sung-Im Whang, NIMS
    (1041-76-180)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dispersive Corrections to a Modulation Theory for Stratified Gravity Waves.
    Razvan C Fetecau*, Simon Fraser University
    David J Muraki, Simon Fraser University
    (1041-76-43)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Zero-Dispersion Similariton.
    J. Nathan Kutz*, Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
    Brandon G. Bale, Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
    (1041-78-58)