Monday November 14 2011
Organisers: Sergey Nazarenko (Warwick), Colm Connaughton (Warwick)

This one-day workshop will bring together theorists and experimentalists in the field of wave turbulence to discuss the phenomenon of "rogue waves" - rare but large amplitude wave events which can often cause catastrophic damage in practical applications. The discussion will focus primarily of the role or strong nonlinearity in generating such events and whether any useful connections can be made with the established weakly nonlinear theory of wave fluctuations as described by weak wave turbulence.

Talks will be held in Room B3.02, Mathematics Institute, Warwick University

Speakers:

• Vladimir Zakharov (University of Arizona)
• Miguel Onorato (Universita' di Torino)
• Victor Shrira (Keele)
• Sergey Annenkov (Keele)
• Stefania Residori ( Institut Non-Linéaire de Nice)
• Sergei Lukaschuk (Hull)
  

Programme:

• 11:50 -12:00 Welcome from the organisers
  
• 12:00 - 13:00 Vladimir Zakharov (Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona)
  Mathematical aspects of the theory of freak waves.

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

• 14:00 - 14:45 Miguel Onorato (Dipartimento di Fisica Generale, Universita' di Torino)
  Triggering rogue waves in opposing currents
  
• 14:45 - 15:30 Sergei Annenkov and Victor Shrira (School of Computing and Mathematics, Keele University)
  Evolution of wave turbulence under `gusty' forcing
  

15:30 - 16:00 Tea break

• 16:00 - 16:45 Stefania Residori ( Institut Non-Linéaire de Nice)
  Optical rogue waves in spatially extended systems.
• 16:45 - 17:30 Sergei Lukaschuk (Department of Engineering, University of Hull)
  Nonstationary regimes in gravity wave turbulence

17:30 - 18:30 Wine and snacks

Abstracts: