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The Geometry and Analysis

of Dynamical Systems

A Conference

to Celebrate the Mathematical Contributions of

XIAO-BIAO LIN and STEPHEN SCHECTER

on the occasion of their 60th birthdays February 22 - 23, 2008
Raleigh, North Carolina

Sponsored by NSF and Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University.
Organized by Chris K.R.T. Jones, Michael Shearer, and Anna Ghazaryan.
 
Participants:

Carmen Chicone,
University of Missouri-Columbia

Shui-Nee Chow, Georgia Institute of Technology

Margaret Beck, University of Surrey, UK

Constantine Dafermos, Brown University

Jack K. Hale, Georgia Institute of Technology

Kris Jenssen, Penn State

Hans Kaper, National Science Foundation


Tasso J. Kaper,
Boston University

Todd Kapitula, Calvin College

Richard Kollar University of Michigan

Yuri Latushkin, University of Missouri-Columbia

Weishi Liu, University of Kansas - Lawrence

Kening Lu, Brigham Young University

Dan Marchesin, IMPA, Brazil


Björn Sandstede,
University of Surrey, UK

David G. Schaeffer, Duke University

Wenxian Shen, Auburn University

Martin Wechselberger, University of Sydney

Yingfei Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology

Chongchun Zeng, Georgia Institute of Technology

Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University


Program

There will a banquet on Friday 6.30 p.m. at Porter's Tavern, 2412 Hillsborough St, Raleigh, NC 27607, and a party on Saturday evening (place to be announced later).

All presentations will take place at Harrelson Hall:
on Friday 1:30-3:30 pm - Room 335 and 3:30-5.00 pm - Room 307
on Saturday 8am-5pm - Room 307

Friday, February 22, 2008
Room
1.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.
Welcome Remarks
335
1.30 p.m - 2.00 p.m.
Yingfei Yi
Quasi-periodic breathers in Hamiltonian networks
335
2.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m
Carmen Chicone
An introduction to smoothed particle hydrodynamics
335
2.30 p.m. - 3.00 p.m.
Margaret Beck
Nonlinear stability of time-periodic viscous shocks
335
3.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.
Tasso Kaper
Wave speeds in R-D equations with cut-offs
335
3.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.
Tea Break
4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.
Bjorn Sandstede
Snakes and ladders
307
6.30 p.m. - ...
Banquet

Saturday, February 23, 2008
Room 307
8.30 a.m. - 9.00 a.m.
Todd Kapitula
On the spectrum associated with periodic waves for generalized KdV equations
9.00 a.m - 9.30 a.m.
Weishi Liu
Current-Voltage relations of ion channels via Poisson-Nernst-Planck systems
9.30 a.m - 10.00 a.m.
Anna Ghazaryan
Nonlinear stability of fronts in a combustion model
10.00 a.m - 10.30 a.m.
Tea Break
10.30 a.m - 11.00 a.m.
Jack Hale
A general class of evolutionary equations
11.00 a.m - 11.30 a.m.
Kening Lu
Lyapunov exponents and invariant manifolds for random dynamical systems in a Banach space
11.30 a.m - 12.00 p.m.
Martin Wechselberger
Folded saddle-nodes: where canards meet Hopf (and Shilnikov)
12.00 p.m - 1.30 p.m.
Lunch
1.30 p.m - 2.00 p.m.
Kris Jenssen
Hyperbolic conservation laws with prescribed eigencurves
2.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m.
Wenxian Shen
Variational principle for spatial spread and propagation speeds in time almost and space periodic KPP models
2.30 p.m. - 3.00 p.m.
Kevin Zumbrun
Numerical stability analysis of shock and detonation waves.
3.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.
David Schaeffer
The little house on the hill: will it stay there when the rains come?
3.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.
Tea Break
4.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.
Chongchun Zeng
Invariant manifold of dynamic spike solutions to a singular parabolic equation
4.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.
Constantine Dafermos
BV solutions of the p-system with frictional damping
7.00 p.m. - ...
Party


Click here for a printable version of the program and the abstracts

The conference room will have one overhead projector, one data projector, and a computer.

Accomodations:

A block of rooms will be held at The Velvet Cloak Inn until February 1st, 2008. To reserve a room, please call the Velvet Cloak Inn directly at 1-888-334-4372. Be sure to let the hotel know you are with the NC State Mathematics Department GADS conference.

Directions:

The Department of Mathematics is located in Harrelson Hall at the North Campus (look for a round building on the campus map). Here are links for the campus map and the directions to the Department of Mathematics from the airport.

Organizers:

Chris K.R.T. Jones,   Michael Shearer  and Anna Ghazaryan



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