Topics.
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Schedule.
Organizing Committee.
Contact.
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Registration.
Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical
Sciences
Waves in Periodic and Random Media
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
June 22 -- June 28, 2002
Registration deadline: March 2nd 2002 (passed). The late registration
information can be found here.
Check
in: Saturday June 22, 2002
Sessions: Sunday, June 23 - Thursday, June
27
Check out: Friday, June 28
Conference topics
- Photonic crystals
- Anderson localization (including localization of classical waves)
- Wave propagation in linear and non-linear periodic media
- Waves in mesoscopic media
- Surface waves
It is expected that the topics of the conference
will be addressed from analytic, numerical, and physics perspectives.
Organizing Committee
David Dobson, University of Utah,
Salt Lake City
Alex Figotin, University of California, Irvine
Peter
Kuchment (co-chair), Texas A&M University
Stephanos Venakides (co-chair),
Duke University
Contact
Peter Kuchment
Office
phone: (979)862-3257
FAX: (979) 862-4190
E-mail: mailto:kuchment@math.tamu.edu
Speakers
- M. Aizenman (Princeton Univ.) "Moment methods for continuum Schroedinger
operators with random potentials"
- H. Ammari (Ecole Politechnique) "Guided waves in a photonic bandgap
structure with a linear defect" (joint work with F. Santosa)
- A. Babin (UC Irvine) "Multilinear spectral decomposition for nonlinear
Maxwell operators"
- E. Bonnetier (Ecole Politechnique) "Radiation properties of a planar
antenna mounted on a photonic crystal substrate"
- J.-M. Combes (Univ. de Toulon, France) "Spectral properties of absorptive
photonic crystals"
- D. Dobson (Univ. of Utah) "Optimal mode localization in heterogeneous
media"
- P. Exner (Nuclear Institute, Czech Republic) "Magnetic transport in
presence of perturbations"
- A. Figotin (UC, Irvine) "Basic properties of nonlinear Maxwell equations
in inhomogeneous media"
- L. Friedlander (Univ. of Arizona, Tucson) "Application of
Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators to spectral theory"
- R. Grigorchuk (Steklov Math. Institute, Moscow, Russia) "On spectral
problems and two-dimensional dynamical systems associated with some
self-similar structures"
- D. Hundertmark (Caltech) "A variational bound for eigenvalues of discrete
Schroedinger operators with potentials of arbitrary sign"
- Y. Karpeshina (Univ. Alabama, Birmingham) "Periodic magnetic Schroedinger
operators. The isoenergy surface and density of states"
- A. Klein (Univ. of California, Irvine) "A characterization of the
Anderson metal-insulator transport transition"
- F. Klopp (U.
Paris-Nord, France) "Regularity properties for the density of states of
random Schroedinger operators"
- T. Kriecherbauer ((Universit\"{a}t
M\"{u}nchen,Germany) "Multi-phase waves in discrete media"
- A. Krokhin (Instituto de F¡sica, Universidad Aut¢noma de Puebla, Mexico)
"Homogenization of photonic and phononic crystals"
- P. Kuchment (Texas A&M University, College Station) "Graph models of
thin media"
- A. Maradudin (UC Irvine) "Designer surfaces"
- C. Nedelec (Ecole Politechnique) "Preconditioning for harmonic integral
equations for Maxwell"
- B. Pavlov (Auckland Univ. New Zealand) "Dirichlet-to-Neumann map and
mathematical modeling of nano-devices"
- J. Sipe (Univ. of Toronto) "Gap and Bragg solitons in artificially
structured materials"
- A. Sobolev (Unic. Sussexx, UK) "Lattice points and periodic operators"
- T. Suslina (St. Petersburg State Univ., Russia) "Absolute continuity of
the spectrum of periodic operators of mathematical physics"
- B. Vainberg (Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte) "Schroedinger operators
with matrix potentials. Transition from absolute continuous to singular
spectrum"
- S. Venakides (Duke University) "Resonances and surface waves in photonic
crystal slabs"
- M. Weinstein (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies) "Stopping light on a
defect: Nonlinear waves in periodic structures with defects"
In order to have enough time left for informal communication among
participants, no contributed talks are planned at this time. It is planned,
however, to have poster sessions. Participants wishing to present a poster
should notify the organizers.
Tentative schedule
|
Sunday June 23 |
Monday June 24 |
Tuesday June 25 |
Wednesday June 26 |
Thursday June 27 |
8.45-9.00 |
Conference opening |
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|
Chair |
Kuchment |
Venakides |
Figotin |
Ammari |
Pavlov |
9.00-9.50 |
Aizenman |
Weinstein |
Friedlander |
Maradudin |
Krokhin |
9.50-10.10 |
Coffee break |
Chair |
Combes |
Dobson |
Exner |
Klopp |
Bonnetier |
10.10-11.00 |
Klopp |
Sipe |
Suslina |
Combes |
Dobson |
11.10-noon |
Grigorchuk |
Figotin |
Sobolev |
Nedelec |
Venakides |
12.00-2.00 |
Lunch break
(lunch noon - 1:00) |
Chair |
Aizenman |
Sipe |
Friedlander |
Nedelec |
Klein |
2.00-2.50 |
Hundertmark |
Babin |
Karpeshina |
Pavlov |
Ammari |
2:50-3:10 |
Coffee break |
Chair |
Kriecherbauer |
Vainberg |
Sobolev |
Karpeshina |
Hundertmark |
3:10-4:00 |
Klein |
Kriecherbauer |
Vainberg |
Exner |
Bonnetier |
4:10-5:00 |
free time, informal discussions |
poster session |
poster session |
Kuchment |
free time, informal discussions |
5.00-6:00 |
free time, informal discussions |
poster session |
poster session |
free time, informal discussions |
free time, informal discussions |
6:00-7:00 |
Dinner |
Registration
Participants need to register through the
AMS Summer Research Conferences
page by March 2nd 2002. For late
registration complete and e-mail to kuchment@math.tamu.edu the application
form below. You will be notified of acceptance.
- Full name.
- Mailing address.
- Phone numbers (including area code) for office, home, and fax.
- E-mail address.
- Your anticipated arrival/departure dates.
- Scientific background relevant to the Institute topics; please indicate if
you are a student or if you received your Ph.D. on or after 1995.
- Please indicate whether you are interested in giving a poster
presentation.
- The amount of financial assistance requested (or indicate if no support is
required).
Financial assistance.
The conference is supported by an NSF
grant. Some financial assistance will be provided for the participants
(especially for students and junior faculty), albeit the participants are
encouraged to use other funds if available.
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