MIRaW Days
Monday 16 November 2009
Nonlinear Waves and the Maslov Index
Organisers: Chris Jones and Frédéric Dias
All talks will be in Room B3.02 Mathematics Institute, Zeeman Building
- 12:00-12:15 Frédéric Dias (ENS-Cachan and University College, Dublin) and Chris Jones (Warwick) Introduction
- 12:15-13:00 Frédéric Chadard (ENS-Lyon) The Maslov index of periodic and solitary waves arising in dispersive equations
- 13:00-14:00 Lunch in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
- 14:00-14:45 Jian Deng (Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing) Krein signature and the nonexistence of complex eigenvalues for the Zakharov-Shabat system
- 14:45-15:30 Short talks and discussion
- 15:30-16:00 Tea break in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
- 16:00-16:30 Short talks and discussion
- 16:30-17:30 Tom Bridges (Surrey) Transversality of homoclinic orbits and the Maslov index
- 17:30 Drinks and snacks in the Mathematics Institute Common Room