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Current as of Saturday, October 31, 2009 01:40:03

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2009 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
University Park, PA, October 24-25, 2009 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1052

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

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Special Session on Nonlinear Waves

• Saturday October 24, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, I
  Room 122, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington
  Diane Henderson, Pennsylvania State University dmh@math.psu.edu
  J. Douglas Wright, Drexel University
  David Ambrose, Drexel University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Supercritical surface gravity waves generated by a positive forcing-theory and experiments.
    Jeongwhan Choi*, Korea University
    Shu-Ming Sun, Virginia Polytech Institute and State University
    Sung-Im Whang, Ajou University
    Dal-Soo Lee, KORDI
    Sang-Ho Oh, KORDI
    (1052-76-159)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    El Nino Southern Oscillation as Sporadic Oscillations between Metastable States.
    Ma Tian, Sichuan University
    Shouhong Wang*, Indiana University
    (1052-86-358)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rogue waves and Dissipation.
    Constance M Schober*, University of Central Florida
    (1052-35-359)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Wave spectrum and breaking wave statistics of growing and mature seas.
    Tetsu Hara*, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
    Tobias Kukulka, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    (1052-86-94)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An Experimental Investigation of the Wave Pattern Generated by a Moving Pressure Source: Solitary Capillary-Gravity Waves.
    J. H. Duncan*, University of Maryland
    J. D. Diorio, University of Maryland
    (1052-76-195)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Resonantly Forced Gravity--Capillary Lumps on Deep Water.
    T. R. Akylas*, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
    Yeunwoo Cho, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
    (1052-76-189)
• Saturday October 24, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, II
  Room 122, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington
  Diane Henderson, Pennsylvania State University dmh@math.psu.edu
  J. Douglas Wright, Drexel University
  David Ambrose, Drexel University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Applications of perturbation series.
    Benjamin Akers*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1052-76-140)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Periodic solutions of the Serre equations.
    John D. Carter*, Seattle University
    Rodrigo Cienfuegos, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
    (1052-76-79)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The stability of finite-genus solutions of the KdV equation.
    M. A. Nivala*, Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
    Bernard Deconinck, Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
    (1052-35-234)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Spectral Stability of Soliton-Like Solutions to a Boussinesq Approximation.
    Christopher W. Curtis*, University of Colorado
    (1052-35-328)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Mach Reflection of a Solitary Wave Revisited.
    Harry Yeh*, Oregon State University
    (1052-76-255)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    KP solitons and shallow water waves.
    Yuji Kodama*, Ohio State University
    (1052-35-130)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, III
  Room 122, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington
  Diane Henderson, Pennsylvania State University dmh@math.psu.edu
  J. Douglas Wright, Drexel University
  David Ambrose, Drexel University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On spectral stability for solitary water waves.
    Robert L Pego*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Shu-Ming Sun, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
    (1052-76-264)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stability of stationary periodic solutions of the Euler equations.
    Katie L. Oliveras*, Seattle University
    Bernard Deconinck, Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
    (1052-76-214)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hamiltonian formulation for water waves on variable depth.
    Philippe Guyenne*, University of Delaware
    (1052-76-127)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Strichartz estimates for the gravity capillary equations.
    Daniel Spirn*, University of Minnesota
    J. Douglas Wright, Drexel University
    (1052-76-365)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Computation of time-periodic solutions of the vortex sheet with surface tension.
    Jon Wilkening*, UC Berkeley
    David Ambrose, Drexel University
    (1052-76-284)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Free Surface Hydrodynamics in Conformal Variables: New Results.
    Vladimir I. Zakharov*, University of Arizona
    (1052-76-175)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, IV
  Room 24, McAllister Building
  Organizers:
  Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington
  Diane Henderson, Pennsylvania State University dmh@math.psu.edu
  J. Douglas Wright, Drexel University
  David Ambrose, Drexel University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tour of the William G. Pritchard Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, led by Diane Henderson

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