Workshop on Whitham Equations 
and Their Applications in Mathematics and Physics

 

International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy 

November 27 - December 3, 2000

Supported by:


The Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Natural and Humanistic Sciences and the Mathematical Physics Group of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste organize a workshop on Whitham equations and their mathematical and physical applications. The workshop aims at fostering the interaction between mathematicians and physicists dealing with various applications of nonlinear semiclassical approximations.

Topics: Whitham equations

International Scientific Committee: B.Dubrovin (SISSA, Trieste), A.Gurevich (Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow), D.Levermore (University of Maryland at College Park and University of Arizona, Tucson).
Local Organizing Committee: B.Dubrovin, G.Falqui, A.Maltsev (SISSA), S. Fantoni (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Natural and Humanistic Sciences).

Invited Talks:

  1. Jared BRONSKI, Modulations in a model of Bose-Einstein Condensate.
  2. Serguei Yu. DOBROKHOTOV, On integrability effects of Hugoniot-Maslov chains for vortices on shallow water
  3. Nicholas M. ERCOLANI, Asymptotic Analysis of an Integrable Chain of Random Matrices
  4. Lazar FRIEDLAND, Extension of Whitham's Method to Resonantly Driven Waves: Wave Autoresonance and its Applications.
  5. Tamara GRAVA, Some global results on the solutions of the Whitham equations.
  6. Roger GRIMSHAW, Undular bores in the Kaup-Boussinesq system.
  7. Alexander GUREVICH, TBA.
  8. Anatoly KAMCHATNOV, Application of Whitham method to modulationally unstable systems.
  9. Yuji KODAMA, Some applications of the Whitham equation to nonlinear optics.
  10. David LEVERMORE, TBA.
  11. Andrei MALTSEV, TBA.
  12. Kenneth McLAUGHLIN, Solution procedure for Whitham modulation equations via Riemann--Hilbert techniques.
  13. Peter D. MILLER, On the semiclassical focusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation.
  14. Yurii OSSIPOV, TBA.
  15. Arkadii SHAGALOV, Numerical simulation of soliton turbulence.
  16. Fey-Ran TIAN, TBA.
  17. Stephanos VENAKIDES, TBA.
  18. Anton ZABRODIN, Whitham hierarchy and 2D inverse potential problem.
  19. Kyrill ZYBIN, TBA.
Format.
45-minute talks during morning and afternoon sessions. There will be room for a few shorter communications, whose programme will be decided by the Scientific Committee during the Workshop. We aim at having a relatively small audience of specialists to ensure an informal and cooperative atmosphere. The arrival day will be November 27, and the departure day December 3. The activities of the workshop will begin on Tuesday, Nov. 28.

Preliminary Programme

Accommodation.
Participants will be accommodated in 3-star hotels at a cost ranging between 85,000 and 120,000 lire per night (1 USD ~ 2200 lire). Some junior participants may be accommodated in the youth hostel adjacent the Miramare Castle at the cost of about 30,000 lire per night. The payment of a fee of 100,000 lire will be required upon registration at the beginning of the workshop.

Travel information.
The workshop will be held at the Miramare campus (http://www.ictp.trieste.it/ictp-campus.html) near Trieste.
Trieste is located in north-eastern Italy
It is connected by Intercity trains (timetables) to Milano (via Venezia) and Rome (via Firenze-Bologna- Venezia).
Trieste airport is in Ronchi dei Legionari, some 35 km west of Trieste. The airport is served by flights connecting to Roma, Milano, Genova, Torino, Munich (Germany), and Beograd (Yugoslavia). A shuttle bus connects the airport to the city; it also stops nearby the SISSA campus.
For further information about travel and Trieste can be found here or at the SISSA or ICTP web pages (http://www.sissa.it or http://www.ictp.trieste.it).

E-mail address: whitham2000@fm.sissa.it

Postal address: B.Dubrovin, Secretariat of Whitham2000, SISSA, Via Beirut 2-4, I-34013 Trieste, Italy.