Nonlinear Waves Working Group Seminar
This seminar provides an informal setting for researchers and students to present work on Nonlinear Waves and related fields. Talks will be in LGRT 1528 from 4-5pm unless otherwise specified.
Spring 2014
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Notes |
| March 5th | Feng Li - University of Washington | Experimental and numerical verifications of traveling breathers in granular crystal pillars | Note special day/time of Wednesday at 11:30am |
| March 14th | Panos Kevrekidis - UMass | Nonlinear Waves in BECs | |
| March 24th | Christopher Chong - UMass | Nonlinear Waves: An Introduction | Note special day/time of Monday at 4pm |
| April 3rd | Ricardo Carrtero - SDSU | Vortex rings: nature, physics, mathematics and computations | Note special day/time of Thursday at 4pm |
| April 15th | Boris Malomed - Tel Aviv University | Bright solitons from defocusing nonlinearities | Note special day/time of Tuesday at 11:00am |
| April 25th | Jennie D'Ambroise - Amherst College | Eigenstates of chains with embedded defects |
Fall 2013
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Notes |
| Nov 1st | Mei Duanmu - UMass | Traveling waves of forced oscillators | |
| Oct. 11 | Dong Yan - UMass | Dark-bright solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensate |
Spring 2013
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Notes |
| Feb 15th | Alexey Miroshnikov - UMass | Cavitation in nonlinear polyconvex elastodynamics: Properties of the (admissible) cavitation solutions, bifurcation phenomena | Talk from Panos postponed to a date to be announced. |
| Jan. 16th | Fatkhulla Abdullaev-Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan | Optical solitons in parity-time symmetric systems |
Fall 2012
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Notes |
| Dec. 7th | Nathaniel Whitaker-UMass | The short pulse equation in high-low frequency bands for nonlinear metamaterials | |
| Nov. 30 | Jo Philips- UMass | Microbial remediation of trichloroethene contaminated aquifers: An experimental and modelling approach | Talk is from 4:30pm-5:30pm |
| Nov. 16 | Chris Hoogeboom- UMass | The Numerics of Granular Crystals | |
| Sept. 28 | Stathis Charalampidis-Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Skyrmions, Rational Maps and Scaling Identities |