Analysis / Math Physics Seminar, Spring 2008

Friday's from 3:30 to 4:30 PM, meeting alternately at MIT (room 2-135) and at Harvard (Science Center room 232).

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Full schedule:

• February 1: Yonatan Sivan (Tel Aviv University)
  (at MIT)
  Dynamics of solitons in inhomogeneous media

  Abstract: We study soliton dynamics in a general inhomogeneous nonlinear media. We show that the dynamics can be predicted based on which of two stability conditions is violated: violation of the slope (Vakhitov--Kolokolov) condition leads to a width instability, whereas failure to satisfy the spectral condition leads to a drift instability. In addition, we show the importance of a quantitative study of the stability for predicting the dynamics. We demonstrate our results in a variety of nonlinear media and inhomogeneities.

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  at MIT

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• March 28: No seminar
  

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  Previous semesters:
  Fall 2007