AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 21, 2007 00:32:16

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 14, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Waves in Dissipative/Dispersive Media, I
Room 229, Edwin A. Stevens Building
Organizers:
Keith S. Promislow, Michigan State University kpromisl@math.msu.edu
Yi Li, Stevens Institute of Technology yili@cs.stevens.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Influence of microscopic noise on the large-scale evolution of dispersion-managed solitons.
  Tobias B. Schaefer*, The College of Staten Island, CUNY
  (1026-35-233)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Stability of fronts in non-smooth excitable media in a noisy environment.
  Keith S Promislow*, Michigan State University
  Mohar Guha, Michigan State University
  (1026-35-179)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Travelling Waves in the Thermally Loaded Parametrically Forced Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation.
  Richard O. Moore*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  (1026-35-200)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Fractal Structure in Solitary Wave Interactions.
  Roy H. Goodman*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  Richard Habernan, Southern Methodist University
  (1026-70-194)

Saturday April 14, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Waves in Dissipative/Dispersive Media, II
Room 229, Edwin A. Stevens Building
Organizers:
Keith S. Promislow, Michigan State University kpromisl@math.msu.edu
Yi Li, Stevens Institute of Technology yili@cs.stevens.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Energy convergence for singular limits of Zakharov type systems.
  Nader Masmoudi*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  (1026-35-199)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Propagation of pressure driven flames in porous media.
  Peter Gordon*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  (1026-35-180)
- 3:30 p.m.
  How many stable pulses can a synaptically coupled neuronal network support?
  Linghai Zhang*, Lehigh University
  (1026-92-197)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On a class of solutions of integrable systems.
  M Kovalyov*, University of Alberta
  (1026-35-66)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Nonlinear Dispersive approximations to the water wave problem.
  Yi Li*, stevens institute of technology
  (1026-35-231)

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