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PROGRAM
for
THE Third IMACS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
NONLINEAR EVOLUTION EQUATIONS AND WAVE PHENOMENA: COMPUTATION AND THEORY
ATHENS, GA
APRIL 7 - 10, 2003
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SUNDAY, APRIL 06, 2003
5:00 - 6:00 pm REGISTRATION
6:00 - 8:00 pm RECEPTION
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MONDAY , APRIL 7, 2003
7:00 - 8:00 am REGISTRATION
8:00 - 8:20 am WELCOME, Masters Hall
Thiab R. Taha/Program Chair and Conference Coordinator
Gordhan Patel/ Vice President for Research
and associate Provost, UGA
8:20 - 9:20 am KEYNOTE LECTURE: Curtis Menyuk, Masters Hall
Title: So, you want to work with engineers?:
Some "do"s and "don't"s for applied mathematicians.
Chair: Mark Ablowitz
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9:20 - 10:20 SESSION 1, Masters Hall
Chair: Nail Akhmediev
Title: Dissipative Solitons
9:20 - 9:50 Speaker: Allan Boardman, P. Egan, M. Xie, L. Velasco
and N. Rosanov
Title: Dissipative Magento-optical Solitons
9:50 - 10:20 Speaker: Allan Boardman, P. Egan, M. Xie, L. Velasco
and N. Rosanov
Title: Dissipative Magento-optical Solitons
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9:20 - 10:20 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS, Room R
Chairs: John Boyd
9:20 - 9:50 Speaker: John P. Boyd
Title: Matched Asymptotic Expansions and Pseudospectral
Methods for Corner and Near-Corner Travelling
Waves of Whitham's Equation
9:50 - 10:20 Speaker: Tobin A. Driscoll
Title: Directed random walks and importance sampling
for noisy optical solitons
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9:20 - 10:20 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS, Room Q
Chairs: Otis Wright
9:20 - 9:50 Speaker: Sarah E. Hewitt and J. Nathan Kutz
Title: Dynamics of the Optical Parametric Oscillator
9:50 - 10:20 Speaker: Edward D. Farnum and J. Nathan Kutz
Title: Spatial Solitons in Quasi-Phase Matched Quadratic
Media
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10:20 - 10:40 COFFEE BREAK
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10:40 - 12:10 SESSION 1, Masters Hall
Chairs: Nail Akhmediev and Carl Weiss
Title: Dissipative Solitons
10:40 - 11:10 Speaker: Ildar Gabitov
Title: Ultra short pulse dynamics on optical fibers
with randomly varying characteristics
11:10 - 11:40 Speaker: Ildar Gabitov
Title: Ultra short pulse dynamics on optical fibers
with randomly varying characteristics
11:40 - 12:10 Speaker: Giovanna Tissoni, Luigi Lugiato
Title: Cavity solitons in semiconductor microresonators
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10:40 - 12:10 SESSION 5, Room R
Chairs: Roy Choudhury, D. J. Kaup and Dmitry Pelinovsky
Title: Stability and Bifurcation of Solitary Wave
Solutions of NLPDEs
10:40 - 11:10 Speaker: William F. Langford
Title: Near-Reversible Hopf Bifurcation
11:10 - 11:40 Speaker: Arnd Scheel
Title: Stability of stationary light transmission in
finite and semi-infinite photonic structures
11:40 - 12:10 Speaker: Robert Pego
Title: Asymptotic stability of solitary waves on lattices
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10:40 - 12:10 SESSION 3, Room Q
Chairs: J. L. Bona, Min Chen, V. Dougalis
Title: Nonlinear Waves in Fluid Mechanics
10:40 - 11:10 Speaker: Jiahong Wu
Title: The Complex KdV Equation
11:10 - 11:40 Speaker:
Title:
11:40 - 12:10 Speaker: Juan-ming Yuan
Title: Studies of recurrence and sigularity formation
in nonlinear dispersive wave equations
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12:10 - 1:20 pm LUNCH
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1:20 - 3:20 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS, Masters Hall
Chair: M. G. Forest
1:20-1:50 Speaker: Vladimir Zakharov
Title: Self-similar solutions in wave turbulence
1:50-2:20 Speaker: M. G. Forest, K. McLaughlin and Otis Wright
Title: On the exact solution of the geometric optics
approximation of Hirota's nonlinear envelope
equation
2:20 - 2:50 Speaker: Mayumi Ohmiya
Title: Calogero-Sutherland model and isomonodromic
deformation
2:50-3:20 Speaker: Chris J. Smith and Roland Mallier
Title: Oblique Waves on a Stuart Vortex
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1:20 - 3:20 SESSION 11, Room R
Chairs: Z. Musslimani, D.E. Pelinovsky and J. Yang
Title: Continuous and Discrete Spatial Solitons
1:20 - 1:50 Speaker: Nikos Efremidis
Title: Lattice solitons.
1:50 - 2:20 Speaker: D. J. Kaup
Title: Discrete NLS Solitons in an Optical Network.
2:20 - 2:50 Speaker: Boris Malomed
Title: Discrete gap solitons in a diffraction-managed
waveguide array
2:50 - 3:20 Speaker: Joachim Meier
Title: Discrete beam interactions in waveguide arrays.
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1:20 - 3:20 SESSION 8, Room Q
Chairs: P.G. Kevrekidis and K.O. Rasmussen
Title: Nonlinear Waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates
1:20-1:50 Speaker: R. Carretero-Gonzalez
Title: Dynamics of vortex lattices in Bose-Einstein
condensates
1:50-2:20 Speaker: G. Kalosakas
Title: Nonlinear transition in Bose-Einstein condensates
2:20 - 2:50 Speaker: S. Komineas
Title: Vortex Rings in a Cylindrical Bose-Einstein
Condensate
2:50 - 3:20 Speaker: V. V. Konotop
Title: Coherent structures in arrays of Bose-Einstein
condensates induced by modulational instability
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3:20 - 3:45 COFFEE BREAK
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3:45 - 5:45 SESSION 1, Masters Hall
Chair: Nail Akhmediev and Allan Boardman
Title: Dissipative Solitons
3:45 - 4:15 Speaker: U. Peschel, F. Lederer, D. Michaelis, Z. Bakonyi
and G. Onishchukov
Title: Dissipative solitons in communication lines
4:15 - 4:45 Speaker: Jin U. Kang and Do-Hyun Kim
Title: Cascaded Raman soliton generation in polarization
maintaining high power fiber amplifier
4:45 - 5:15 Speaker: Steve Cundiff, J. M. Soto-Crespo and N. Akhmediev
Title: Soliton Dynamics in Modelocked Lasers
5:15 - 5:45 Speaker: Zhijun Qiao
Title: Generalized Shallow Water Equation and its
Solutions
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3:45 - 5:45 SESSION 5, Room R
Chairs: Roy Choudhury, D. J. Kaup and Dmitry Pelinovsky
Title: Stability and Bifurcation of Solitary Wave
Solutions of NLPDEs
3:45 - 4:15 Speaker: Christopher K.R.T. Jones
Title: Criteria for Assessing (In)stability in Hamiltonian
Systems
4:15 - 4:45 Speaker: Dmitry Pelinovsky
Title: Spectral stability of solitary waves in coupled
nonlinear Schrodinger equations
4:45 - 5:15 Speaker: Andrew Comech
Title: Purely nonlinear instability of minimal energy
standing waves
5:15 - 5:45 Speaker: Scipio Cuccagna
Title: Stabilization of solutions to nonlinear Schrodinger
equations
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3:45 - 5:15 SESSION 3(Continued), Room Q
Chairs: J. L. Bona, Min Chen, V. Dougalis
Title: Nonlinear Waves in Fluid Mechanics
3:45 - 4:15 Speaker: G. Iooss
Title: Influence of the essential spectrum for
bifurcations of travelling waves
4:15-4:45 Speaker: Bing-Yu Zhang
Title: On Conditional and Unconditional Well-posedness
of the Cauchy Problem of Nonlinear Evolution
Equations
4:45-5:15 Speaker: Shu-Ming Sun
Title: Damped Korteweg-de Vries Equations in a Quarter
Plane
5:15 - 5:45 Speaker: Hongqiu Chen
Title: Existence of Periodic Traveling-wave Solutions
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TUESDAY, APRIL 08, 2003
8:00 - 9:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE: A. Fokas, Masters Hall
Title: Boundary Value Problems for Integrable Nonlinear
PDE's
Chair: Thiab Taha/Program Chair
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9:00 - 10:00 SESSION 8, Masters Hall
Chairs: P.G. Kevrekidis and K. O. Rasmussen
Title: Nonlinear Waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates
9:00 - 9:30 Speaker: B. Malomed
Title: Semiclassical approximation for the Bose-Einstein
condensates trapped in an optical potential
9:30 - 10:00 Speaker: G. Montesinos
Title: Trapless trapped Bose-Einstein condensates by
control of the scattering length: Matter breathers
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9:00 - 10:00 SESSION 4, Room R
Chairs: John Carter and David Nicholls
Title: Nonlinear three-dimensional surface water waves
9:00 - 9:30 Speaker: Diane Henderson
Title: Experiments on three-dimensional deep water waves
9:30 - 10:00 Speaker: Jerry Bona
Title: Long wave approximations for water waves
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9:00 - 10:00 TUTORIAL, Room Q
Gino Biondini and William L. Kath
Title: An Introduction to Optical Fiber Communications(1)
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10:00 - 10:20 COFFEE BREAK
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10:20 - 12:20 SESSION 1, Masters Hall
Chair: Nail Akhmediev and Jin Kang
Title: Dissipative Solitons
10:20 - 10:50 Speaker: Vladimir Konotop
Title: On adiabatic dynamics of cnoidal waves in
perturbed NLS
10:50 - 11:20 Speaker: Roy Choudhury, D. J. Kaup and N. Akhmediev
Title: Bifurcations and Competing Coherent Structures
in Optics Systems
10:20 - 11:50 Speaker: Leblond Herve, Mohamed Salhi, Ammar Hideur,
Thierry Chartier and Francois Sanchez
Title: Modelling of the passively mode-locked ring fiber
laser
11:50 - 12:20 Speaker: Wieslaw Krolikowski, Ole Bang, John Wyller
and Jens Juul Rasmussen
Title: Nonlocal solitons
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10:20 - 12:20 SESSION 4(continued), Room R
Chairs: John Carter and David Nicholls
Title: Nonlinear three-dimensional surface water waves
10:20 - 10:50 Speaker: Philippe Guyenne
Title: Computations of 3D overturning waves in shallow
water
10:50 - 11:20 Speaker: Paul Milewski
Title: Two-dimensional Free-surface Solitary Water Waves
11:20 - 11:50 Speaker: Dave Nicholls
Title: Stability of Hexagonal Traveling Water Waves
11:50 - 12:20 Speaker: Harvey Segur
Title: Stabilizing the Benjamin-Feir Instability
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10:20 - 12:20 TUTORIAL (Continued), Room Q
Gino Biondini and William L. Kath
Title: An Introduction to Optical Fiber Communications(2)
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12:20 - 1:20 pm LUNCH
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1:20 - 3:20 SESSION 11 , Masters Hall
Chairs: Z. Musslimani, D.E. Pelinovsky and J. Yang
Title: Continuous and Discrete Spatial Solitons
1:20 - 1:50 Speaker: Andrey Sukhorukov
Title: Spatial gap solitons in dynamically induced and
engineered waveguide arrays
1:50 - 2:20 Speaker: Boaz Ilan
Title: Self-focusing and multiple filamentation of
circularly polarized beams
2:20 - 2:50 Speaker: Frank Wise
Title: Generation of Spatiotemporal Solitons in
Quadratic Media
2:50 - 3:20 Speaker: Jianke Yang
Title: Stable vortex and dipole vector solitons in a
saturable nonlinear mediu.
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1:20 - 3:20 SESSION 9, Room R
Chairs: Brenton LeMesurier and Constance Schober
Title: Numerical Methods and Results for Nonlinear Wave
Equations
1:20 - 1:50 Speaker: D. A. Karpeev and C. M. Schober
Title: Finite Element Methods in Discrete Variational
Calculus and Multisymplectic PDE Discretizations
1:50 - 2:20 Speaker: Brenton leMesurier
Title: Regularization and control of self-focusing in the
2D nonlinear Schrodinger equation by attractive
potentials
2:20 - 2:50 Speaker: C. M. Schober and A. L. Islas
Title: Multisymplectic PDE Integrators
2:50 - 3:20 Speaker: Clayton Webster
Title: Numerical Modelling of Waveguide Interface
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1:20 - 3:20 SESSION 3, Room Q
Chairs: J. L. Bona, Min Chen, V. Dougalis
Title: Nonlinear Waves in Fluid Mechanics
1:20 - 1:50 Speaker: Robert Pego
Title: Spectral stability of encapsulated vortices for
focusing-defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger equations
1:50 - 2:20 Speaker: Bernard Deconinck
Title: Nonlocality and the Nonlinear Schrodinger
equation with periodic potential
2:20 - 2:50 Speaker: Katherine Socha
Title: Modal Analysis of the BBM Equation
2:50 - 3:20 Speaker: Min Chen
Title: Differences and Similarities on Various Model
Equations of Water Waves
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3:20 - 3:45 COFFEE BREAK
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3:45 - 5:45 SESSION 5, Master Hall
Chairs: Roy Choudhury, David Kaup and Dmitry Pelinovsky
Title: Stability and Bifurcation of Solitary Wave
Solutions of NLPDEs
3:45 - 4:15 Speaker: Martin Klaus
Title: "On the eigenvalues of Zakharov-Shabat and
Manakov systems
4:15 - 4:45 Speaker: Radu C. Cascaval
Title: Solitons relative to special backgrounds for the
focusing NLS hierarchy
4:45 - 5:15 Speaker: Vassilis M Rothos
Title: Traveling Kinks in discrete sine-Gordon lattices
with an inter-site potential
5:15 - 5:45 Speaker: P.G. Kevrekidis
Title: A Dynamic Renormalization Approach to Blowups:
the NLS Paradigm
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3:45 - 5:45 SESSION 2, Room R
Chairs: Gino Biondini and Brian S. Marks
Title: Topics in Optical Fiber CommunicationS
3:45 - 4:15 Speaker: William L. Kath and Gino Biondini
Title: Importance sampling for noise-induced jitter in
soliton transmission systems
4:15 - 4:45 Speaker: Colin McKinstrie
Title: Modeling phase jitter in soliton communication
systems
4:45 - 5:15 Speaker: Rudy L. Horne and Christopher K. R. T. Jones
Title: Pulse interactions in optical fibers using second
and third-order dispersion management
5:15 - 5:45 Speaker: Tobias Schaefer
Title: A new model for short pulses in optical fibers
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3:45 - 5:45 SESSION 10, Room Q
Chair: Andrei Ludu
Title: Solitons and Nonlinear Patterns on Closed
Surfaces/Curves
3:45-4:15 Speaker: Carlos Wexler
Title: Contour dynamics, waves, and solitons in a two
dimensional electron system
4:15 - 4:45 Speaker: Lazar Friedland
Title: Coherent Pattern Formation in Resonant Multi-Contour
Dynamics
4:45- 5:15 Speaker: Curtis Menyuk
Title: Modeling Noise in Dispersion Managed Soliton
Systems
5:15 - 6:00 Speaker: Joel Fajans
Title: Equilibrium, Stability and 2d Vortex Dynamics
in Pure-Electron Plasmas
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6:30 ****** BANQUET ****** Speaker: Robert Vichnevetsky/President of IMACS
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 09, 2003
8:00 - 9:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE: C. Sulem, Masters Hall
Title: Asymptotic stability of solitary waves for
nonlinear Schrodinger equations
Chair: Jerry Bona
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9:00 - 10:00 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS, Masters Hall
Chairs: S. Baboolal
9:00 - 9:30 Speaker: N. C. Panoiu, Adrian Schauer, I. V. Mel'nikov,
D. Mihalache, and J. Stewart Aitchison
Title: Optical Soliton Fusion from a Multi-Component Signal
9:30 - 10:00 Speaker: R. Naidoo and S. Baboolal
Title: Adapting two recent high resolution numerical
schemes and boundary conditions to model soliton
propagation in a plasma fluid
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9:00 - 10:00 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS, R
Chair: Andrus Salupere
9:00 - 9:30 Speaker: Andrus Salupere, Olari Ilison, Lauri Ilison,
and Juri Engelbrecht
Title: On Solitons in Microstructured Solids and Granular
Materials
9:30 - 10:00 Speaker: Nghiea V. Nguyen
Title: On $H^n(R)$-Stability of Solitary Waves of KdV
Equation
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9:00 - 10:00 SESSION 2, Room Q
Chairs: Gino Biondini and Brian S. Marks
Title: Topics in Optical Fiber CommunicationS
9:00 - 9:30 Speaker: Mark J. Ablowitz and Andrew Docherty
Title: Incomplete timing shifts in quasi-linear
dispersion-managed optical communication systems
9:30 - 10:00 Speaker: Jamison Moeser
Title: DM soliton-like solutions in fibers with randomly
varying dispersion
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10:00 - 10:20 COFFEE BREAK
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10:20 - 12:20 SESSION 1 , Masters Hall
Chair: Nail Akhmediev and Gregor Kovacic
Title: Dissipative Solitons
10:20 - 10:50 Speaker: Carl Weiss, V. B. Taranenko
Title: Spatial Solitons in Dissipative Nonlinear Resonators
10:50 - 11:20 Speaker: Carl Weiss, V. B. Taranenko
Title: Spatial Solitons in Dissipative Nonlinear Resonators
11:20 - 11:50 Speaker: Alexandre S. Shcherbakov and Mauro Sanchez Sanchez
Title: Regime of Dissipative Solitons in Passively
Mode-Locked Multilayer Semiconductor Laser Structures
11:50 - 12:20 Speaker: Augusto Rodrigues
Title: Soliton interaction in optical-fiber lasers
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10:20 - 12:20 SESSION 7, Room R
Chair: P. M. Jordan and C. Feuillade
Title: Analytical and Computational Approaches to Applied
Propagation Problems
10:20 - 10:50 Speaker: P. Puri
Title: Thermoelastic Waves and Second Sound
10:50 - 11:20 Speaker: P. Puri
Title: Thermoelastic Waves and Second Sound (Cont.)
11:20 - 11:50 Speaker: H. A. Terrill-Vosbein
Title: Evaluating the Effect of Boundary Nonlinearities on
Scattered Acoustic Waves
11:50 - 12:20 Speaker: J. K. Fulford
Title: Effects of Dispersive Porous Media Flow on Biot
Model Predictions
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10:20 - 12:20 SESSION 3, Room Q
Chairs: J. L. Bona, Min Chen, V. Dougalis
Title: Nonlinear Waves in Fluid Mechanics
10:20 - 10:50 Speaker: Vassilios Dougalis
Title: A computational study of stability of solitary
waves for some Boussinesq systems
10:50 - 11:20 Speaker: Mark Groves
Title: Three-dimensional solitary gravity-capillary water
waves
11:20 - 11:50 Speaker: Henrik Kalisch
Title: Hamiltonian Long-Wave Expansions for Free
Surfaces and Interfaces
11:50 - 12:20 Speaker: Lionel Paumond
Title: On links between some asymptotic models
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12:20 - 1:20 pm LUNCH
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1:20 - 3:20 SESSION 5, Masters Hall
Chairs: Roy Choudhury, D. J. Kaup and Dmitry Pelinovsky
Title: Stability and Bifurcation of Solitary Wave
Solutions of NLPDEs
1:20 - 1:50 Speaker: N. F. Smyth
Title: Raman Induced Destabilisation of Asymmetric Coupled
Solitary Waves in Nonlinear Twin-Core Fibres
1:50 - 2:20 Speaker: Vadim Zharnitsky
Title: Coupled Ginzburg-Landau equations and Raman
amplification
2:20 - 2:50 Speaker: Jianke Yang
Title: Continuous families of embedded solitons in the
third-order nonlinear Schrodinger equation
2:50 - 3:20 Speaker: Vladimir Varlamov
Title: Stability and Long-time Behavior for 3D Damped
Boussinesq Equation
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1:20 - 3:20 SESSION 6, R
Chair: P. M. Jordan, S. A. Chin-Bing
Title: Solitons: Applied and Theoretical Studies
1:20 - 1:50 Speaker: R. E. Mickens
Title: Analysis of a Nonstandard Finite Difference Scheme
for the Korteweg-de-Vries Equation
1:50 - 2:20 Speaker: W. J. Sonnier
Title: Numerical Investigation of Solitons in
Coupled Systems of Schroedinger Equations
2:20 - 2:50 Speaker: S. A. Chin-Bing
Title: The Effects On Ocean Acoustic Propagation Caused
By Near-Surface and Near-Bottom Solitary Internal
2:50 - 3:20 Speaker: M. Christou
Title: Fourier-Galerkin Method for Interacting Localized
Waves
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1:20 - 3:20 SESSION 10, Room Q
Chair: Andrei Ludu
Title: Solitons and Nonlinear Patterns on Closed
Surfaces/Curves
1:20 - 1:50 Speaker: S. Roy Choudhury
Title: Integrability Characteristics and Coherent
Structures of Integrable Two-Dimensional
generalizations of NLS Type Equations
1:50 -2:20 Speaker: Boris Malomed
Title: Interaction of a Soliton with a Local Defect
in a Fiber Bragg Grating
2:20 - 2:50 Speaker: Panayotis Panayotaros
Title: Birkhoff normal forms for the periodic DMNLS
2:50 - 3:20 Speaker: Bedros B. Afeyan, A. Kanaev, K. Won
Title: Filamentation in (2+1) D Spatially Nonuniform
Media: Plasmas near the Turning Point of the
Incident Laser and Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
and Lasers with 2D Distributed Feedback Structures
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3:20 - 3:45 COFFEE BREAK
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3:45 - 5:45 SESSION 12, Masters Hall
Chairs: Jens Juul Rasmussen
Title: Self-focusing of light pulses, and collapse
dynamics in Bose-Einstein Condensates
3:45 - 4:15 Speaker: Luc Berge
Title: Self-focusing and collapse dynamics
4:15 - 4:45 Speaker: Miroslav Kolesik
Title: Dynamics of femtosecond light pulses in gases and
condensed media
4:45 - 5:15 Speaker: Masahito Ueda
Title: Coherent nonlinear dynamics of collapsing
Bose-Einstein condensates
5:15 - 5:45 Speaker: Pavel M. Lushnikov
Title: Collapse of Bose-Einstein condensate with
dipole-dipole interactions
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3:45 - 5:45 SESSION 1, Room R
Chairs: Nail Akhmediev and Vladimir Konotop
Title: Dissipative Solitons
3:45 - 4:15 Speaker: Len Pismen
Title: Weakly dissipative spiral waves
4:15 - 4:45 Speaker: Len Pismen
Title: Weakly dissipative spiral waves
4:45 - 5:15 Speaker: Alexander Golovin
Title: Spiral waves in unstable flames
5:15 - 5:45 Speaker: Arnd Scheel
Title: Defects in oscillatory media - towards a
classification"
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3:45 - 5:45 SESSION 11, Room Q
Chairs: Z. Musslimani, D.E. Pelinovsky and J. Yang
Title: Continuous and Discrete Spatial Solitons
3:15 - 3:45 Speaker: Taras Lakoba
Title: Using phase modulation to suppress ghost pulses
in high-speed optical transmission
3:45 - 4:15 Speaker: Roy Choudhury
Title: Painlev'e Analysis of Multicomponent
Systems - An Algorithmic Method
4:15 - 4:45 Speaker: M.J. Ablowitz, B. Prinari, A.D. Trubatch
Title: On the IST for discrete nonlinear Schrodinger
systems and polarization shift for discrete
vector solitons
4:45 - 5:45 Speaker: Andrey Sukhorukov and Nail Akhmediev
Title: Exact results for lossless planar soliton
X-junctions with variable transmission
coefficients
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THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2003
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8:00 - 10:00 SESSION 1, Masters Hall
Chair: Nail Akhmediev and Ildar Gabitov
Title: Dissipative Solitons
8:00 - 8:30 Speaker: Hidetsugu Sakaguchi
Title: Bifurcations of pulse solutions in some complex
Ginzburg-Landau type equations
XXX 8:30 - 9:00 Speaker: Jianke Yang
Title: Hopf bifurcation of solitons in weakly dissipitive
systems
9:00 - 09:30 Speaker: A. S. Naumov, N. N. Rosanov
Title: New regimes of soliton-like structures in a
reaction-diffusion system
9:30 - 10:00 Speaker: Dingyuan Tang, B. Zhao, P. Shum, C. Lu,
W. S. Man and H. Y. Tam
Title: Evidence of muti-hump temporal solitons in
passively mode locked fiber lasers
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8:00 - 10:00 SESSION 11, R
Chairs: Z. Musslimani, D.E. Pelinovsky and J. Yang
Title: Continuous and Discrete Spatial Solitons
8:00 - 8:30 Speaker: Alina Chertock
Title: Particle methods for dispersive equations
8:30 - 09:00 Speaker: Alexander Kurganov
Title: Formation of Discontinuities in Flux-Saturated
Degenerate Parabolic Equations: Theory and Numerics
9:00 - 9:30 Speaker: Matt Pearce and Alan R. Champneys
Title: Embedded Solitons in a Three-Wave System
9:30 - 10:0 Speaker: Thiab Taha and Xiangming Xu
Title: Parallel Numerical simulation of Nonlinear Type
Equations
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8:00 - 10:00 SESSION 10, Room Q
Chair: Panayotaros
Title: Solitons and Nonlinear Patterns on Closed
Surfaces/Curves
8:00 - 8:30 Speaker: A. Ludu(session)
Title: Solitons and Antisolitons on Compact Surfaces:
Coexistence and Transition
8:30 - 9:00 Speaker: Robert I. Odom
Title: Surface Wave Solitons on the Solid Earth
9:00 - 9:30 Speaker: Scott H. Hawley
Title: Gravitating Globs of Multiple Scalar Fields
9:30 - 10:00 Speaker: Vladimir Gerdjikov
Title: An Universal Integrable Model for Adiabatic
N-soliton Interactions
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10:00 - 10:20 COFFEE BREAK
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10:20 - 12:20 SESSION 7, Masters Hall
Chair: P. M. Jordan and C. Feuillade
Title: Analytical and Computational Approaches to Applied
Propagation Problems
10:20 - 10:50 Speaker: C. Feuillade
Title: A Computationally Efficient Model for Scattering
from an Isovelocity Wedge
10:20 - 10:50 Speaker: G. V. Norton
Title: Time Domain Modeling of Pulse Propagation in Non-
Isotropic Dispersive Media
11:20 - 11:50 Speaker: P. M. Jordan
Title: On the Propagation of Acoustic Waves in Bubbly
Liquids
11:50 - 12:20 Speaker: Herve Leblond
Title: Solitons of the KdV hierarchy in a ferromagnet
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10:20 - 12:20 SESSION 3 , Room R
Chair: J. L. Bona, Min Chen, V. Dougalis
Title: Nonlinear Waves in Fluid Mechanics
10:20 - 10:50 Speaker: Beatrice Pelloni
Title: Linear and nonlinear water waves in a
bounded domain
10:50 - 11:20 Speaker: Vladimir Varlamov
Title: Special Functions and Traveling Wave Solutions
for Ostrovsky Equation
11:20 - 11:50 Speaker: G. Awanou and Ming-Jun Lai
Title: Spline Approximations of 3D Navier-Stokes Equations
11:50 - 12:20 Speaker: Ali Akbar Jafarpour, Babak Momeni, Sina Khorasani
Mohammad Soltani, Charles M. Reinke, Ali Adibi
Title: A Finite-difference time-domain code for simulation
of $\chi^{(2)}$ and $\chi^{(3)}$ nonlinear
effects in two-dimensional non-homogeneous
optical structures
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10:20 - 12:20 SESSION 1, Room Q
Chair: Nail Akhmediev and Len Pismen
Title: Dissipative Solitons
10:20 - 10:50 Speaker: Gregor Kovacic
Title: The truncated Burgers-Hopf equation as a testbed for
Hamiltonian and statistical mechanics
10:50 - 11:20 Speaker: S. V. Meleshko, J. Tantanuch
Title: Applications of group analysis to delay
differential equations
11:20 - 11:50 Speaker: Nikolay N. Rosanov and Sergey V. Fedorov
Title: Laser solitons
11:50 - 12:20 Speaker: Nikolay N. Rosanov and Sergey V. Fedorov
Title: Laser solitons
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12:20 - 1:20 pm LUNCH
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1:20 - 3:20 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS, Masters Hall
Chair:Bernd Binder
1:20 -1:50 Speaker: Bernd Binder
Title: Two Basic Types of Bosonizing Iterative Coupling
Constant
1:50 - 2:20 Speaker: H. Torres-Silva and M. Zamorano
Title:Elliptically Polarized Solitons in a Chiral Fiber
2:20 - 2:50 Speaker: S. EL Manouni and A. Touzani
Title: Existence Results for some Weighted Nonhomogeneous
Elliptic Syste
2:50 - 3:20 Speaker: Frank Jochmann
Title: Analysis of nonlinear polarization and
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