Whitham Equations and Applications
in Mathematics and Physics

SISSA - TRIESTE Nov 27th - Dec. 3rd 2000




SCHEDULE
Mon. 27
Arrival Day
17.30   Registration (SISSA)
  18.00   Reception (SISSA Bar)
Tue, 28 9.30   Registration
  10.00 Alexander GUREVICH TBA
  11.00   Coffee Break
  11.30 Stephanos VENAKIDES TBA
  12.30  
Lunch
  14.00 Kenneth McLAUGHLIN Solution procedure for Whitham modulation equations via Riemann-Hilbert techniques.
  15.00   Coffee break
  15.30 Anatoly KAMCHATNOV Application of Whitham method to modulationally unstable systems.
Wed. 29 10.00 David LEVERMORE TBA
  11.00   Coffee Break
  11.30 Kyrill ZYBIN TBA
  12.30  
Lunch
  14.00 Anton ZABRODIN Whitham hierarchy and 2D inverse potential problem.
  15.00   Coffee break
  15.30 Lazar FRIEDLAND Extension of Whitham's Method to Resonantly Driven Waves: Wave Autoresonance and its Applications.
Thu. 30 10.00 Boris DUBROVIN TBA
  11.00   Coffee Break
  11.30 Arkadii SHAGALOV Numerical simulation of soliton turbulence.
  12.30  
Lunch
  14.00 Tamara GRAVA Some global results on the solutions of the Whitham equations
  15.00   Coffee break
  15.30 Yurii OSSIPOV TBA
  20.00   Conference Dinner
Fri. 1st 10.00 Fey-Ran TIAN TBA
  11.00   Coffee Break
  11.30 Andrei MALTSEV TBA
  12.30  
Lunch
  14.00 Peter D. MILLER On the semiclassical focusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation.
  15.00   Coffee break
  15.30 Yuji KODAMA Some applications of the Whitham equation to nonlinear optics.
Sat. 2nd 10.00 Nicholas M. ERCOLANI Asymptotic Analysis of an Integrable Chain of Random Matrices
  11.00   Coffee Break
  11.30 Jared BRONSKI Modulations in a model of Bose-Einstein Condensate.
  12.30  
Lunch
  14.00 Sergei DOBROKHOTOV On integrability effects of Hugoniot-Maslov chains for vortices on shallow water
  15.00   Coffee break
  15.30 Roger GRIMSHAW Undular bores in the Kaup-Boussinesq system.
Sun. 3rd
Departure Day