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2012 Spring Western Section Meeting
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
March 3-4, 2012 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1078

Associate secretaries:

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

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Special Session on New Techniques and Results in Integrable and Near-Integrable Nonlinear Waves

• Saturday March 3, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on New Techniques and Results in Integrable and Near-Integrable Nonlinear Waves, I
  Room D201, Business Administration Building
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey DiFranco, Seattle University difranco@seattleu.edu
  Peter Miller, University of Michigan millerpd@umich.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Integrable systems, gradient flows, and dissipation.
    Anthony M Bloch*, University of Michigan
    (1078-35-178)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the Cauchy problem for the KdV equation with Miura type initial data.
    Alexei Rybkin*, University of Alaska Fairbanks
    (1078-35-342)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Numerical inverse scattering for KdV and NLS.
    Sheehan Olver*, The University of Sydney
    Thomas Trogdon, University of Washington
    (1078-65-214)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Uniform numerical approximation of integrable equations via Riemann-Hilbert problems.
    Thomas Trogdon*, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
    Sheehan Olver, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
    Bernard Deconinck, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
    (1078-65-215)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fast sweeping methods for steady state problems of hyperbolic conservation laws with source terms.
    Weitao Chen, The Ohio State University
    Ching-Shan Chou, The Ohio State University
    Chiu-Yen Kao*, The Ohio State University/ Claremont McKenna College
    (1078-65-194)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Elastic solitary water wave interactions.
    Jon Wilkening*, UC Berkeley
    (1078-76-275)
• Saturday March 3, 2012, 3:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  Special Session on New Techniques and Results in Integrable and Near-Integrable Nonlinear Waves, II
  Room D201, Business Administration Building
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey DiFranco, Seattle University difranco@seattleu.edu
  Peter Miller, University of Michigan millerpd@umich.edu
  

  • 3:15 p.m.
    Perturbed magnetic droplet solitons.
    Mark A. Hoefer*, North Carolina State University
    Matteo Sommacal, Northumbria University, UK
    (1078-35-57)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Transverse instabilities of dark solitons and dispersive shocks.
    Boaz Ilan*, School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced
    Mark A Hoefer, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University
    (1078-35-86)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    The spectrum of periodic traveling waves in the sine-Gordon equation.
    Robert Marangell*, University of Sydney
    C.K.R.T. Jones, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    P. Miller, The University of Michigan
    R. Plaza, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
    (1078-35-132)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Asymptotics of rational Painlevé II solutions.
    Robert Buckingham*, University of Cincinnati
    Peter D. Miller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1078-34-349)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    On the modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the semiclassical limit.
    Peter David Miller*, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
    (1078-35-303)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Inverse scattering for the semiclassical modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation.
    Jeffery C DiFranco*, Seattle University
    Peter Miller, University of Michigan
    (1078-35-321)

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