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Emerging Applications of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations

February 3 - 7, 2003

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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Monday, February 03, 2003

Day 1: Laser propagation in bulk medium

Morning Session

Session Chair: Shi Jin

8:30 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 10:00

Alexander Gaeta (Cornell University)

"Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Nonlinear Wave Collapse"

10:00 - 11:00

Alfred Vogel (Medizinisches Laserzentrum Lübeck, Germany)

"Numerical simulations of optical breakdown for cellular laser surgery at nanosecond to femtosecond time scales "

11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30

Pierre-Louis Sulem (Obervatoire de la Cote d'Azur)

"Wave collapse in dispersive magnetohydrodynamics: direct simulations and asymptotic modeling"

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: Pierre-Louis Sulem

2:00 - 3:00

Xiao-Ping Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

"An adaptive grid method for singular problems and applications"

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Boaz Ilan (University of Colorado)

"Self-focusing and multiple filamentation of circularly polarized beams"

4:30 - 5:30

Miroslav Kolesik (University of Arizona)

"Unidirectional optical pulse propagation equations - from Maxwell to Nonlinear Schrödinger equation"

5:30 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, February 04, 2003

Day 2: 2D NLS theory

Morning Session

Session Chair: Catheleen Sulem

9:00 - 10:00

Frank Merle (Universite de Cergy, France)

"qualitative description of blow-up for critical NLS"

10:00 - 11:00

Gadi Fibich (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

"Nonlinear Schrödinger equations with fourth-order dispersion"

11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30

Hayato Nawa (Nagoya University)

 

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: Gadi Fibich

2:00 - 3:00

Semyon Tsynkov (North Carolina State University)

"Backscattering and Nonparaxiality Arrest Collapse of Damped Nonlinear Waves"

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Yvan Martel (Ecole Polytechnique, France)

"Blow up phenomenon in the energy space for the critical generalized KdV equation"

4:30 - 5:30

Jared Bronski (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

"Instability and Pattern formation in a nonlocal NLS"


Wednesday, February 05, 2003

Day 3: Solitons+communications

Morning Session

Session Chair: Michael Weinstein

9:00 - 10:00

Ziad Musslimani (University of Colorado)

"The vector nonlinear Schrödinger equations"

10:00 - 11:00

George Stegeman (University of Central Florida)

"Optical Experiments with the Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30

Rick Trebino (Georgia Institute of Technology)

"Measurements of Ultrafast Continuum Generation in Microstructure Fiber"

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: George Papanicolaou

2:00 - 3:00

Michael Weinstein (Bell Laboratories)

"Selection of the ground state for nonlinear Schrödinger Equations"

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Mark Ablowitz (University of Colorado)

"Discrete and continuous nonlinear Schrödinger systems"

4:30 - 5:30

Peter Markowich (University of Vienna and Radon Institute, Austrian Academy of Science, Linz)

"PDE Models for Bose-Einstein Condensation"


Thursday, February 06, 2003

Day 4: Solitons+communications (continued)

Morning Session

Session Chair: Mark Ablowitz

9:00 - 10:00

William Kath (Northwestern University)

"Simulating rare events in optical transmission systems"

10:00 - 11:00

Alejandro Aceves (University of New Mexico)

"Pulse dynamics in nonlinear photonic crystal fibers and periodic structures"

11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30

Ildar Gabitov (University of Arizona)

"Intra-Channel Four Wave Mixing in High Speed Optical Fiber Communications"

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: Irene Gamba

2:00 - 3:00

Jean-Claude Diels (University of New Mexico)

"Spatial-temporal solitons in air --- experimental puzzles, and (too) simple models"

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Christopher Jones (Brown University)

"Perturbations of solitary waves in dispersion-managed systems "

4:30 - 5:30

Li-Tien Cheng (UCSD) and Hailiang Liu (Iowa State University)

"The Level Set Method Applied to the Schrödinger Equation"
Presentation (PDF File)

5:30 - 7:00 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Friday, February 07, 2003

Day 5: BEC

Morning Session

Session Chair: Peter Markowich

9:00 - 10:00

Amandine Aftalion (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)

"Mathematical model for Bose Einstein condensates"

10:00 - 11:00

Qiang Du (Pennsylvania State University)

"Quantized vortices in Bose-Einstein condensate"

11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30

Alexander Fetter (Stanford University)

"Stability and Dynamics of Vortices in a Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate"

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: Alexander Fetter

2:00 - 3:00

Irene Gamba (University of Texas, Austin)

"Quantum Trajectories and the Wigner equation"

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Catherine Sulem (University of Toronto)

"On asymptotic stability of solitary waves for nonlinear Schrödinger equations"

4:30 - 5:30

Alex Gottlieb (Wolfgang Pauli Institute)

"Self-consistent Schroedinger and Liouville-von Neumann equations for material particles"

5:30 Conclusion

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