AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, May 3, 2009 00:21:11

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS steve.weintraub@lehigh.edu

Saturday April 25, 2009, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Effective Dynamics and Interactions of Localized Structures in Schrödinger Type Equations, I
Room 105, Salisbury Laboratories
Organizers:
Fridolin Ting, Lakehead University fting@lakeheadu.ca
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the Thomas-Fermi ground state in a parabolic trap.
  Dmitry Pelinovsky*, Department of Mathematics, McMaster University
  (1050-41-42)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dark Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates: Experimental Findings, Numerical Computations and Theoretical Directions.
  Panayotis Kevrekidis*, UMass, Amherst
  (1050-35-39)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Sharp scattering and blow up regimes for focusing nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation.
  Slim Ibrahim*, University of Victoria
  Nader Masmoudi, The Courant Institute, NYU
  Kenji Nakanishi, Kyoto University
  (1050-35-169)

Saturday April 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Effective Dynamics and Interactions of Localized Structures in Schrödinger Type Equations, II
Room 105, Salisbury Laboratories
Organizers:
Fridolin Ting, Lakehead University fting@lakeheadu.ca
- 3:00 p.m.
  Realistic Models of NLS- Large time behavior and Applications to Physics.
  Avy Soffer*, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University
  (1050-35-167)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dynamics of vortices in a damped Gross-Pitaevskii equation.
  Matthias Kurzke, University of Bonn
  Christof Melcher, Oxford University
  Roger Moser, University of Bath
  Daniel Spirn*, University of Minnesota
  (1050-35-127)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Solitary Waves in the Earth's Interior and their Stability.
  Gideon Simpson*, University of Toronto
  Michael I Weinstein, Columbia University
  (1050-35-112)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Regularization of collapse in dynamics of biological cells.
  Pavel M Lushnikov*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico
  Mark Alber, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame
  Nan Chen, University of Notre Dame
  (1050-92-154)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Mean-field limit of quantum systems of many bosons.
  Israel Michael Sigal*, University of Toronto / Institute for Advanced Study
  (1050-81-153)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Dynamics of solitons of the nonlinear Schroedinger / Gross Pitaevskii equation.
  Michael I Weinstein*, Columbia University
  (1050-35-151)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Effective Dynamics and Interactions of Localized Structures in Schrödinger Type Equations, III
Room 105, Salisbury Laboratories
Organizers:
Fridolin Ting, Lakehead University fting@lakeheadu.ca
- 8:30 a.m.
  Existence and Nonexistence of Electricity in Two-Dimensional Static Gauge Field Theories.
  Yisong Yang*, Department of Mathematics, Yeshiva University
  (1050-81-62)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Charged vortices of finite energy in the Chern-Simons-Higgs theorey.
  Robin Ming Chen*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  Yujin Guo, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  Daniel Spirn, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  Yisong Yang, Department of Mathematics, Yeshiva University
  (1050-35-122)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Tunneling of solitons through potential barriers.
  Walid Abou Salem*, University of Toronto
  (1050-35-118)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The cubic fourth-order Schrodinger equation.
  Benoit Pausader*, Brown University
  (1050-35-111)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Effective Dynamics of multi-vortices in an external potential for Ginzburg-Landau Gradient flow.
  Fridolin Ting*, Lakehead University
  (1050-35-38)

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