Recent Advances in Nonlinear Waves
In Honor of Harvey Segur's 75th birthday
July 31 - August 4, 2017

Conference Program (tentative)

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Monday, July 31, 2017 (all events in HUB 145, unless otherwise indicated)

9:00 - 9:30	Opening comments
9:30 - 10:00	Walter Strauss: Steady states of rotating stars and galaxies
10:00 - 10:30	Edriss Titi: Some remarks on a generalization of the Bardos-Tartar conjecture for nonlinear dissipative PDEs
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:30	Vishal Vasan: The Unified Transform Method for equations with nonlocal operators and their application to water waves
11:30 - 12:00	Diego Arcas: Recent advances in tsunami forecasting and future directions
12:00 - 12:30	Frank Talke: Design and mechanics problems in medical device technology and information storage
12:30 - 14:30	Pizza lunch (Lewis Hall collaborative rooms)
14:30 - 15:00	Roberto Camassa: Tailoring the tails in Taylor dispersion
15:00 - 15:30	Diane Henderson: Experiments on water waves
15:30 - 16:00	David Trubatch: Numerical detection of wave breaking in the Short-Pulse Equation
16:00 - 16:30	Break
16:30 - 17:00	Yuji Kodama: The KP theory and Mach reflection in shallow water
17:00 - 17:30	Robert Pego: Nonlinear dynamics of merging and splitting of animal groups via Bernstein function theory
19:00 - 21:00	Poster Session with Dessert (Lewis Hall 3rd floor Lounge)

Tuesday, August 1, 2017 (all events in HUB 145, unless otherwise indicated)

9:30 - 10:00	Walter Craig: Vortex filament dynamics
10:00 - 10:30	Cody Cichowitz: Identifying opportunities to improve HIV care for pregnant and postpartum women in Tanzania
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:30	Chris Curtis: Surface waves over point vortices
11:30 - 12:00	Edgar Knobloch: Viscous Faraday waves in large domains
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch with access to Lewis Hall collaborative rooms
Afternoon	Optional short hike (Leaves at 12:45) Option 1: Twin Falls Option 2: Snow Lake Nonhikers are on their own and will have access to the Lewis Hall collaborative rooms

Wednesday, August 2, 2017 (all events in HUB 145, unless otherwise indicated)

9:30 - 10:00	Jean-Marc Vanden Broeck: Non periodic and asymmetric nonlinear travelling gravity waves.
10:00 - 10:30	Nalini Joshi: Discrete nonlinear systems and integrability
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:30	Rudy Horne: Parity-Time (PT) Symmetric systems: an analysis of dimer and trimer models
11:30 - 12:00	Tom Trogdon: Oscillatory integrals and the AKNS scattering problem
12:00 - 12:30	Patrick Weidman: Reflections of a high-amplitude solitary wave at a vertical wall.
12:30 - 14:30	Lunch with access to Lewis Hall collaborative rooms
14:30 - 15:00	Greg Forest: If I give you a bucket of mucus, what experiments would you perform to characterize/model it?
15:00 - 15:30	Holger Dullin: Integrable systems related to the Euler fluid flow on the rotating sphere
15:30 - 16:00	Natalie Sheils: The heat equation on a composite medium with imperfect thermal contact.
16:00 - 16:30	Break
16:30 - 17:00	Lev Ostrovsky: Nonlinear internal waves in the rotating Earth
17:00 - 17:30	John Carter: Comparisons between experimental measurements and predictions from bi-directional Whitham equations
18:30 - 21:00	(17:45 bus departure) Conference Dinner at Palisade Restaurant

Thursday, August 3, 2017 (all events in MEB 246, unless otherwise indicated)

9:30 - 10:00	Peter Olver: Dispersive quantization of linear and nonlinear waves
10:00 - 10:30	Constance Schober: Rogue waves over a non-uniform background
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:30	Saverio Spagnolie: Hydrodynamics of self-propulsion in complex environments
11:30 - 12:00	Paul Milewski: The fluid mechanics and mathematics of Faraday pilot waves
12:00 - 12:30	David Levermore: Dispersive corrections to the Navier-Stokes system of gas dynamics
12:30 - 14:30	Lunch with access to Lewis Hall collaborative rooms
14:30 - 15:00	Frederic Dias: On real world ocean rogue waves
15:00 - 15:30	Harry Yeh: Nonlinear edge waves
15:30 - 16:00	Bernard Deconinck: Recovering surface elevation from bottom pressure data
16:00 - 16:30	Break (Guggenheim 220)
16:30 - 17:30	Special Event. Rudy Horne: Hidden figures: bringing math, physics, history and race to Hollywood (Guggenheim 220)

Friday, August 4, 2017 (all events in MEB 246, unless otherwise indicated)

9:30 - 10:00	Mark Ablowitz: (Many) integrable nonlocal nonlinear equations and solitons
10:00 - 10:30	Olga Trichtchenko: Stability of travelling wave solutions to Korteweg-de Vries and related equations
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:30	Mark Hoefer: Hydrodynamic soliton tunneling
11:30 - 12:00	Katie Oliveras: Pressure and Luke’s variational principle
12:00 - 12:30	Jon Wilkening: Water waves over multiply-connected domains
12:30 - 13:00	James Curry: Image decomposition using non-negative matrix factorization.
13:00 - 13:30	Closing comments