UK Nonlinear News, August 2002
The workshop took place under the auspices of the Centre for Nonlinear Mathematics and Applications, Loughborough University, and was organised by V.M. Rothos and R.H.J. Grimshaw. The workshop was attended by approximately 50 participants, of whom 10 were postgraduate students.
The talks covered a wide range of topics, ranging from homoclinic bifurcations phenomena in soliton equations, stability of multi-bump pulses and wavetrains, KAM theory and Birkhoff normal forms for nonlinear PDEs, solitons and breathers in nonlinear lattices, with applications in nonlinear optics, water waves, reaction-diffusion equations and MHD. The invited plenary speakers were:
| G. Iooss | INLN, Sophia-Antipolis |
| Water-Waves as a Spatial Dynamical System | |
| J. Engelbrecht | Tallinn |
| Modified KdV Evolution Equations and Solitary Waves | |
| B. Sandstede | Ohio-State |
| Multi-hump pulses in PDEs with reflection and phase invariance | |
| D. Pelinovsky | McMaster |
| Semi-stability of embedded solitons in the general fifth-order KdV equation | |
| D. Bambusi | Milan |
| Birkhoff Normal Form for some Nonlinear PDEs | |
| J.C. Eilbeck | Heriot-Watt |
| Solitons and Breathers in Nonlinear lattices | |
| T. Bridges | Surrey |
| Instability and breakup of standing waves (spatially periodic breathers) of nonlinear wave equations | |
| S. Turitsyn | Aston |
| Self-similar parabolic optical solitary waves | |
| A. Yew | Ohio-State |
| Stability of cnoidal waves in a nonlinear Schrodinger equation with potential | |
| E. Pelinovsky | Nizhny Novgorod |
| Dynamics of the large-amplitude solitary waves under the action of the weak perturbations | |
| E. Doktorov | Minsk |
| Solitons beyond the Zakharov-Shabat Spectral Problems | |
The contributed speakers were:
| G. Hek | Amsterdam |
| Pulse patterns in a coupled Ginzburg-Landau equation | |
| H. van der Ploeg | Amsterdam |
| Stability of pulse patterns in the Gierer-Meinhardt equation | |
| A. Ponno | Milan |
| A relation between stochasticity thresholds in FPU models and the threshold for soliton formation in the NLS equation | |
| C. Martel | Madrid |
| Dispersion and diffusion effects in counterpropagating waves | |
| M.S. Ruderman | Sheffield |
| DNLS soliton propagation in a plasma with fluctuating density | |
| I. Ballai | Sheffield |
| Solitons and their instabilities in MHD waveguides | |
| M. Stepic | Belgrade |
| Stationary solutions of 2D discrete NLS equation and their stability | |
| T. Dmitrieva | Saratov |
| Solitons, complex dynamics and chaos in three-wave parametric interaction | |
Overall the meeting was very successful, with a larger attendance than anticipated, excellent talks and fruitful discussions.