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Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
September 24-25, 2016 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1121

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

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Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and Dynamical Systems

• Saturday September 24, 2016, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 24, Druckenmiller Hall
  Organizers:
  Christopher Chong, Bowdoin College cchong@bowdoin.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Towards metastability in the Burgers equation with periodic boundary conditions.
    Kelly McQuighan*, Boston University
    Gene Wayne, Boston University
    (1121-37-18)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Modified Energy Functionals and the NLS Approximation.
    Patrick Cummings*, Boston University
    C. E. Wayne, Boston University
    (1121-35-249)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Periodic traveling waves in diatomic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou lattices.
    Timothy E Faver*, Drexel University
    J. Douglas Wright, Drexel University
    (1121-35-28)
• Saturday September 24, 2016, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 24, Druckenmiller Hall
  Organizers:
  Christopher Chong, Bowdoin College cchong@bowdoin.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Neimark-Sacker bifurcations and evidence of chaos in a discrete dynamical model of walkers.
    Aminur Rahman*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1121-37-262)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Steady and Traveling Wave Solutions in a Chain of Periodically Forced Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators.
    Mei Duanmu, Apollo Education Group
    Nathaniel Whitaker*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Panos Kevrekidis, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Anna Vainchtein, University of Pittsburgh
    Jonathan Rubin, University of Pittsburgh
    (1121-65-21)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Multi-component nonlinear waves in one and two dimensional coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) systems: Theory and Numerical Computations.
    Efstathios Georgios Charalampidis*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003-4515, USA
    Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003-4515, USA
    Boris Malomed, Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering,Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University
    Dimitri J. Frantzeskakis, Department of Physics, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos, Athens 15784, Greece
    (1121-35-153)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Nonlinear Dynamics of Lattices of Bi-stable Units with Spatially Varying Properties.
    Myungwon Hwang, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
    Andres F Arrieta*, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
    (1121-70-278)

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