AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 13, 2007 00:36:29

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Wave Propagation from Mathematical and Numerical Viewpoints, I
Room 8009, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Gabriel Koch, University of Chicago koch@math.uchicago.edu
Catalin Constantin Turc, Caltech and University of North Carolina at Charlotte turc@acm.caltech.edu
Nicolae Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some Mathematical Problems in Optics: A Preliminary Report.
  Gang Bao*, Michigan State University
  (1030-78-278)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Decay rates for partially dissipative hyperbolic systems.
  Enrique Zuazua Iriondo*, IMDEA-Matem�ticas & Universidad Aut�noma de Madrid
  (1030-35-42)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Global well-posedness in the energy space for the Kadomstev-Petviashvili I equation.
  Carlos E. Kenig*, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago
  (1030-35-67)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A semiclassical transport model for thin quantum barrier.
  Shi Jin*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Kyle Novak, Air Force Institute of Technology
  (1030-65-209)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Wave Propagation from Mathematical and Numerical Viewpoints, II
Room 8009, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Gabriel Koch, University of Chicago koch@math.uchicago.edu
Catalin Constantin Turc, Caltech and University of North Carolina at Charlotte turc@acm.caltech.edu
Nicolae Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Two-dimensional water wave patterns.
  Min Chen*, Purdue University
  (1030-76-84)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Symmetry Breaking of Ground States in Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation.
  Eduard Kirr*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  M. I. Weinstein, Columbia University
  P. Kevrekidis, University of Massachussetts
  E. Shlizerman, Weizmann Institute
  (1030-35-204)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On a class of nonlinear wave-particle solutions of integrable systems.
  Mikhail Kovalyov*, University of Alberta, Canada
  (1030-35-254)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break
- 4:30 p.m.
  Travel Time and Tensor Tomography.
  Plamen Stefanov*, Purdue University
  (1030-53-228)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A Coupled System of ODEs and Quasilinear Hyperbolic PDEs Arising in a Multiscale Blood Flow Model.
  Wei H Ruan*, Purdue University Calumet
  (1030-35-296)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Maxwell's equations in nonlinear media.
  Aurelia Minut*, U.S. Naval Academy
  (1030-35-351)

Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Wave Propagation from Mathematical and Numerical Viewpoints, III
Room 8009, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Gabriel Koch, University of Chicago koch@math.uchicago.edu
Catalin Constantin Turc, Caltech and University of North Carolina at Charlotte turc@acm.caltech.edu
Nicolae Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The uniform Korn-Poincare inequality in thin domains.
  Marta Lewicka*, University of Minnesota
  (1030-35-286)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Inverse medium scattering for Maxwell's equations at fixed frequency.
  Gang Bao, Michigan State University
  Peijun Li*, University of Michigan
  (1030-78-250)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Elastic waves in incompressible anisotropic elasticity--some new results.
  Sudhakar E. Nair*, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 60616
  (1030-74-336)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Boundary Perturbation Methods for High-Frequency Acoustic Scattering: Shallow Periodic Gratings.
  David P. Nicholls*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Fernando Reitich, University of Minnesota
  (1030-65-197)

Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Wave Propagation from Mathematical and Numerical Viewpoints, IV
Room 8009, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Gabriel Koch, University of Chicago koch@math.uchicago.edu
Catalin Constantin Turc, Caltech and University of North Carolina at Charlotte turc@acm.caltech.edu
Nicolae Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Systems of nonlinear wave equations with nonlinear degenerate damping and source terms.
  Mohammad A. Rammaha*, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
  Sawanya Sakuntasathien, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
  (1030-35-60)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Diffraction of waves on manifolds with corners.
  Richard Melrose, MIT
  Andras Vasy, Stanford University
  Jared Wunsch*, Northwestern University
  (1030-35-225)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for numerical relativity.
  James Rossmanith*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  Qiang Deng, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  (1030-65-425)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Acoustic and electromagnetic integral equations requiring small numbers of Krylov-subspace iterations.
  Catalin Turc*, Department of Mathematics UNC Charlotte
  Oscar Bruno, Caltech
  Tim Elling, Caltech
  Randy Paffenroth, Caltech
  (1030-65-423)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion

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