Colorado Non-Linear Days



*Financial support from the UCCS Department of Mathematics, College of Letters, Arts & Sciences,

 the UCCS Provost, and the UCCS Chancellor made this conference possible!
 
               

 

November 11, 2017
Morning Session (Osborne Center, Room B215)

  • 8:45 am --  Welcome by LAS Dean, Peter Braza & Provost, Tom Christensen 
  • 9:00 am - 9:30 am --  Ken McLaughlin (Colorado State University - Fort Collins): Asymptotic analysis of d-bar problems and applications
  • 9:30 am - 10:00 am --  Alessandro Arsie (University of Toledo) : Flat F-manifolds, Miura invariants and integrable systems of conservation laws  
  • 10:00 am - 10:30 am --   Mark Bradley (Colorado State University - Fort Collins): Shock Waves, Pyramids and Biconvex Depressions Produced by Ion Bombardment of Solid Surfaces
  • 10:30 am - 10:45 am -- Coffee break
  • 10:45 am - 11:15 am --  Mark Ablowitz (University of Colorado Boulder): Integrable nonlinear nonlocal equations and solitons 
  • 11:15 am - 11:45 am --   Baofeng Feng (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley): Soliton solutions to the nonlocal NLS and coupled NLS equations with zero and nonzero boundary conditions
  • 11:45 am - 12:15 pm --  Lincoln Carr (Colorado School of Mines) : Complex networks on quantum states: from quantum phase transitions to emergent dynamics of quantum cellular automata 
  • 12:15-2:00pm -- Lunch (Roaring Fork Dining Hall)

Afternoon Session (Osborne Center, Room B215)

  • 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm --  Manuela Girotti (Colorado State University - Fort Collins): Integrable gap probabilities for the Generalized Bessel process  
  • 2:20 pm - 2:40 pm -- Igor Rumanov (University of Colorado Boulder): Whitham modulation theory: (2+1) dimensional vs (1+1) dimensional equations 
  • 2:40 pm - 3:00 pm --  Scott Strong (Colorado School of Mines): Non-Hamiltonian Dynamics of Quantized Vortices
  • 3:00 pm - 3:20 pm -- Patrick Sprenger (University of Colorado Boulder):  Hydrodynamic optical soliton tunneling
  • 3:20 pm - 3:40 pm --  Justin Cole (University of Colorado Boulder): Tight-binding Approximations for Longitudinally Driven Photonic Lattices
  • 3:40 - 4:10pm -- Coffee break
  • 4:10 pm - 4:40 pm --   James Meiss (University of Colorado Boulder): Drift and Diffusion in Symplectic and Volume-Preserving Maps
  • 4:40 pm - 5:10 pm --   Stephen Pankavich (Colorado School of Mines): Arbitrarily large solutions of symmetric plasmas
  • 5:10 pm - 5:40 pm --  Iuliana Oprea (Colorado State University - Fort Collins): Complex Dynamics in Extended Anisotropic Systems - A Ginzburg-Landau Approach
  • 5:40 - 6:10pm --  Anton Dzhamay (University of Northern Colorado): Geometric Deautonomization of QRT Maps and Discrete Painlevé Equations  

November 12, 2017
Morning Session (Osborne Center, Room B215)

  • 9:00 am - 9:30 am --  Gino Biondini (State University at Buffalo): On the universal nature of modulational instability
  • 9:30 am - 10:00 am --  Dionyssis Mantzavinos (University of Kansas): Long-time asymptotics for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the nonlinear stage of modulational instability
  • 10:00 am - 10:30 am --  Mark Hoefer (University of Colorado Boulder): Hydrodynamics of a Ferromagnet: "Flow" in a Magnetic Channel
  • 10:30 am - 11:00 am -- Coffee break
  • 11:00 am - 11:30 am --  Gregory Lyng (University of Wyoming): Multidimensional Stability of Large-Amplitude Navier-Stokes Shocks 
  • 11:30 am - 12:00 pm --  Patrick Shipman (Colorado State University - Fort Collins): Lorentz-conformal transformations and timelike surfaces of zero mean curvature
  • 12:00 am - 12:30 pm -- Willy Hereman (Colorado School of Mines): Gauge equivalence of Lax pairs of partial difference equations  

UCCS

University of Colorado Boulder

  • Mark Ablowitz
  • Igor Rumanov
  • Justin Cole
  • Mark Hoefer
  • James Meiss
  • Patrick Sprenger
  • Maximilian Ruth
  • Jessica Harris
  • Adam Binswanger

Colorado School of Mines

  • Lincoln Carr
  • Majed Alotaibi
  • Scott Strong
  • Anastasia Gladkina
  • Stephen Pankavich
  • Willy Hereman

Colorado State University

  • Patrick Shipman
  • Iuliana Oprea
  • Mark Bradley
  • Manuela Girotti
  • Ken McLaughlin

University of Northern Colorado

  • Anton Dzhamay

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

  • Baofeng Feng

University of Toledo

  • Alessandro Arsie

State University at Buffalo

  • Gino Biondini

University of Wyoming

  • Gregory Lyng
  • Yulong Li 

University of Kansas

  • Dionyssis Mantzavinos

Pikes Peak Community College

  • Ikuko Saito

    Davidson Technologies, Inc.

    • Michelle Osborne

    Southern Oregon University

    • John Anton

    Organizers:

    Sarbarish Chakravarty and Barbara Prinari

    * Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting, but we request that people register their participation in advance, by contacting the organizers 

    • Financial support from the UCCS Department of Mathematics, College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, and the UCCS Provost made this conference possible!
    • UCCS Campus (map), Osborne Center (OSCE, Room B215)

    Directions

    • Take exit 146 from I-25 and head EAST on Garden of the Gods (GoG) Rd.
    • Drive east on GoG past Nevada Ave (GoG Rd becomes Austin Bluffs Pkwy) and go uphill.
    • Once at the top of the hill, follow Austin Bluffs Pkwy past the first light, then make a left onto UCCS at the 2nd light.
    • Park in any lot (parking is FREE on Saturday) as close to the Library (Clock Tower) as possible.
    • Take the stairs up toward the plaza, keeping the Library on your right. Osborne Center is on the left.
    • Registration and morning sessions are in Osborne B215

    For your convenience, below are a few recommended hotels, for those that choose to spend the night in Colorado Springs.