First Drexel Waves Workshop

First Drexel Waves Workshop

May 18-20, 2018

Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Invited Speakers:

Nathan Glatt-Holtz (Tulane University), Diane Henderson (Pennsylvania State University), Katie Oliveras (Seattle University), Sarah Raynor (Wake Forest University), Geordie Richards (Utah State University), Gideon Simpson (Drexel University), Catherine Sulem (University of Toronto), C. Eugene Wayne (Boston University), Miles Wheeler (University of Vienna).

Conference dinner

There will be a dinner on Friday, May 18 at 6:00pm at Landmark Americana, on Market Street between 33rd and 34th Streets.

Talk locations

The talks on Friday will be in the Pearlstein Business Learning Center; this building is at the southeast corner of the intersection of 33rd Street and Market Street. The talks on Saturday and Sunday will be in the Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building; this building is at the northeast corner of 33rd Street and Chestnut Street.

Schedule of Talks

DayTimeSpeakerTitleRoom
Friday3:00-3:50Nathan Glatt-Holtz Adventures in Bayesian Statistical Inversion: Theory, Computation and Applications Pearlstein 303
4:00-4:50Gideon Simpson Existence theory for magma equations in dimension two and higher Pearlstein 303
Saturday10:00-10:50 Geordie Richards On Ergodic Theory for Stochastic Boussinesq Equations Papadakis 108
11:00-11:50Catherine SulemBloch theory and spectral gaps for linearized surface water wavesPapadakis 108
1:30-2:20Katie Oliveras Measuring Waves using Pressure Papadakis 108
2:30-3:20Miles WheelerSpatial asymptotics for solitary waves in deep waterPapadakis 108
4:00-4:50Sarah RaynorNonlinear Bound States in a Schrodinger-Poisson System with External PotentialPapadakis 108
Sunday10:00-10:50Diane Henderson The dispersion relation for waves at the elastic interface of two viscous fluids Papadakis 108
11:00-11:50C. Eugene WayneModified Energy Functionals, Normal Forms and the NLS ApproximationPapadakis 108

Organizers: David Ambrose (Drexel University), J. Douglas Wright (Drexel University).
Inquiries can be directed to drexelwaves@gmail.com.
The organizers gratefully acknowledge support for this workshop from the National Science Foundation through grant DMS-1613965.