AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

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)

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