AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 22, 2008 00:20:42

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

Saturday March 15, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and their Applications, I
Room 809, Silver Center
Organizers:
Edward D. Farnum, Kean University efarnum@kean.edu
Roy Goodman, New Jersey Institute of Technology goodman@njit.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Bifurcation structure in multi-frequency mode-locked lasers.
  Edward D. Farnum*, Kean University, Center for Science, Technology & Mathematics Education
  (1036-78-181)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Mode-locking Dynamics: Attracting States, Limit Cycles, and Bifurcations.
  Brandon G. Bale*, University of Washington
  (1036-78-120)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dynamics and bifurcation structure of harmonic mode-locking.
  J. Nathan Kutz*, University of Washington
  Bjorn Sandstede, University of Surrey
  (1036-78-44)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Nonlocal stabilization of localized solutions to damped-dispersive equations.
  Richard O. Moore*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  (1036-78-153)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Stability of Trapped Light in Bragg Grating Optical Fiber Defects.
  Roy H. Goodman*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  (1036-78-96)
- 10:30 a.m.
  ``Solitray Waves in Discrete Media in the presence of Four-wave mixing products".
  Rudy L. Horne*, Florida State University
  (1036-78-166)

Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and their Applications, II
Room 809, Silver Center
Organizers:
Edward D. Farnum, Kean University efarnum@kean.edu
Roy Goodman, New Jersey Institute of Technology goodman@njit.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Raman-induced energy exchange between optical solitons as a random cascade model.
  Avner Peleg*, University at Buffalo, SUNY
  (1036-35-24)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Impact of stochastic perturbations on ultra-short solitons in cubic nonlinear media.
  Tobias B Schaefer*, The College of Staten Island, CUNY
  (1036-35-65)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dynamics of KdV discretizations.
  A. David Trubatch*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montclair State University
  (1036-34-169)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the stability of deep-water surface waves.
  Diane M Henderson*, Penn State University
  Harvey Segur, University of Colorado
  (1036-76-175)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Gravity induced dispersion for nearly flat vortex sheets.
  Doug Wright*, Drexel University
  Daniel Spirn, University of Minnesota
  (1036-35-42)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A Kinematic Model of Wave Propagation in an Excitable Medium.
  John Wesley Cain*, Virginia Commonwealth University
  (1036-92-09)

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