[grad-students] [Mystudents] Stability and instability of nonlinear waves workshop for students

[Jo-Anne Rockwood]

Please note the following workshop geared towards Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows. 

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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