Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Wednesday, January 16, 2008 00:26:57

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego, CA, January 6-9, 2008 (Sunday - Wednesday)
Meeting #1035

• Tuesday January 8, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Dynamics and Stability of Coherent Structures, I
  Organizers:
  Ricardo Carretero, San Diego State University carreter@sciences.sdsu.edu
  Jennifer M. Gorsky, University of San Diego
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Recent Results on Stability of Traveling Waves in Nonlinear, Dispersive Media.
    Jerry L. Bona*, University of Illiniois at Chicago
    (1035-35-57)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dynamics of Ultraviolet light filament and vortex propagation in the atmosphere.
    Alejandro B. Aceves*, University of New Mexico
    Alexey Sukhinin, University of New Mexico
    Jean-Claude Diels, Department of Physics and Astronomy, U. of New Mexico
    (1035-78-2016)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The pole dynamics of rational solutions of the viscous Burgers equation.
    Bernard Deconinck*, University of Washington
    (1035-70-463)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Azimuthal Modulation Stability for Vortices in the Focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation.
    Ronald Meyer Caplan*, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University
    Ricardo Carretero, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Group, San Diego State University State University
    Enam Hoq, Western New England College
    Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, University of Massachusetts
    (1035-37-1803)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The piston dispersive shock wave problem.
    Mark Hoefer*, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO
    (1035-35-738)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Detection of Ocean Bathymetry from Surface Wave Measurements.
    David P. Nicholls*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Mark Taber, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1035-76-842)
• Tuesday January 8, 2008, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Dynamics and Stability of Coherent Structures, II
  Organizers:
  Ricardo Carretero, San Diego State University carreter@sciences.sdsu.edu
  Jennifer M. Gorsky, University of San Diego
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Solitons and the Inverse Scattering Method.
    Robert M. Miura*, New Jersey Institute of Technolody
    (1035-35-486)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Formation of vortices, vortex lines and vortex rings in sliced condensates.
    Ricardo Carretero*, San Diego State University
    Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Nathaniel Whitaker, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Dimitri J. Frantzeskakis, University of Athens
    Brian P. Anderson, University of Arizona
    (1035-37-2023)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Krein Signature for Non-selfadjoint Spectral Problems.
    Richard Kollar*, University of Michigan
    (1035-34-1721)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Defect Eigenvalues and Diophantine Equations via the Evan's function.
    Jared C Bronski*, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
    Zoi Rapti, University of Illinois
    (1035-34-1468)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Semi-strong pulse interaction in thermally detuned PNLS equation.
    Keith Promislow*, Michigan State University
    Richard Moore, NJIT
    (1035-35-1160)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Unique continuation for Camassa-Holm and Degasperis-Procesi equations.
    A. Alexandrou Himonas*, Unviersity of Notre Dame
    (1035-35-1012)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Breather solutions in the discrete NLS with parametric forcing.
    Panayotis Panayotaros*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    (1035-37-360)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Wave Propagation in Phononic Crystals.
    Mason Alexander Porter*, University of Oxford
    (1035-70-50)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Numerical experiments on the propagation and interaction of well-prepared and non-well-prepared pulses in dispersive media.
    Christopher Chong*, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
    Guido Schneider, University of Stuttgart, Germany
    (1035-35-226)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A diagnostic tool for ergodicity.
    Sherry E Scott*, Marquette University
    Chris Jones, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Igor Mezic, University of California Santa Barbara
    Thomas Corey Redd, Louisiana State University Baton Rouge
    Leonid Kuznetsov, Susquehanna International Group, LLP
    (1035-37-116)