[grad-students] Workshop announcement
John Stockie
stockie at cs.sfu.ca
Thu Jan 19 11:59:16 EST 2006
Could you please post the following announcement to the CMS Graduate
Student List for a workshop focused on graduate students and
postdoctoral fellows?
Thank-you,
John Stockie.
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Workshop:
Stability and instability of nonlinear waves
September 6-8, 2006;
University of Washington;
Seattle, Washington
Hosted by The Department of Applied Mathematics
Supported by:
- the National Science Foundation
- the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
Organizing committee: Bernard Deconinck (UW)
J. Nathan Kutz (UW)
John Stockie (SFU)
Workshop webpage: http://www.amath.washington.edu/~stability/
Related conference: SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent
Structures, see http://www.siam.org/meetings/nw06
Scientific objectives and scope:
Stability plays an essential role in many branches of science and
engineering, including several aspects of fluid mechanics, high-speed
transmission of information, and feasibility of MHD fusion devices. The
objective of the workshop is to give an overview of current
state-of-the-art methods for examining stability, as well as to present
some widely applicable new techniques. The format will consist of four
invited speakers giving a series of lectures at a level aimed at graduate
students but useful for researchers from a variety of disciplines, such as
mathematics, engineering, biology, etc.
Workshop description:
Although the topic of stability of solutions of partial differential
equations is important in almost any application area, the most powerful
techniques one uses to examine stability are hardly ever taught in
courses. This is mainly because many of these techniques have come about
fairly recently. We are organizing a workshop where these techniques are
taught in 4 mini-courses. The workshop is aimed at graduate students,
postdoctoral fellows and young researchers interested in stability
methods, working in different disciplines on a variety of applications.
Course 1. An introduction to stability analysis of nonlinear waves.
Lecturer: Mariana Haragus (Mathematics, U. de Franche-Comte) (4 lectures)
Course 2. The Evans function.
Lecturer: Todd Kapitula (Mathematics and Statistics, U. of New Mexico) (4
lectures)
Course 3. Numerical methods. Lecturers: J. Nathan Kutz, Bernard Deconinck
(Applied Mathematics, U. of Washington), Jens Rademacher (Weierstrass
Institute, Berlin), Jeff Humpherys (Mathematics, Brigham Young) (4
lectures, 1 lecture each)
Course 4: Nonlinear stability.
Lecturer: Harvey Segur (Applied Mathematics, U. of Colorado, Boulder) (4
lectures)
Participation and support:
Because of the generous support of the NSF through a VIGRE grant, and of
PIMS, we are able to offer support for graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows to attend this workshop. This support is NOT limited to US or
Canadian nationals or citizens. More details are available at the
conference webpage at http://www.amath.washington.edu/~stability/
A preliminary schedule is available there as well.
Please address all inquiries to stability at amath.washington.edu.
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