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Conference Schedule

Symmetries of Differential Equations: Frames, Invariants and Applications - May 17-20, 2012

All talks will be held in Vincent Hall 16, in the basement of the math building.

Thursday, May 17

12:30 - 1:30  Sign in (VinH 120)

1:30 - 1:40  Welcome

1:40 - 2:20  John Ball

2:20 - 3:00  Philip Rosenau

3:00 - 3:20  Coffee Break

3:20 - 4:00  Mark Fels

4:00 - 4:40  Elizabeth Mansfield

4:40 - 5:30  Evelyne Hubert

5:30 -   Reception (VinH 120)

Friday, May 18

8:30 - 9:00  Continental Breakfast (VinH 120)

9:00 - 9:40  Keti Tenenblat

9:40 - 10:20  Mireille Boutin

10:20 - 10:40  Coffee Break (VinH 120)

10:40 - 11:20  Debra Lewis

11:20 - 12:00  Irina Kogan

 

12:00 - 2:00  Lunch Break (VinH 120)

2:00 - 2:40  Arieh Iserles

2:40 - 3:20  Sheehan Olver

3:20 - 3:50  Coffee Break and Poster Session
    (VinH 120)

3:50 - 4:30  Robert Milson

4:30 - 5:10  Artemio González-López

 

6:00 - 6:30  Reception
    (Carlson Private Dining Room, L-150)

6:30 - 8:00  Conference Dinner
    (Carlson Private Dining Room, L-150)

8:00 -   Dinner Program

Saturday, May 19

8:30 - 9:00  Continental Breakfast and Poster Session
    (VinH 120)

9:00 - 9:40  Boris Kruglikov

9:40 - 10:20  Juha Pohjanpelto

10:20 - 10:40  Coffee Break and Poster Session
    (VinH 120)

10:40 - 11:20  Francis Valiquette

11:20 - 12:00  Ian Anderson

 

12:00 - 2:00  Lunch Break

2:00 - 2:40  Rui Loja Fernandes

2:40 - 3:20  Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach

3:20 - 3:50  Coffee Break and Poster Session
    (VinH 120)

3:50 -   Panel discussion


Sunday, May 20

All talks are 20 minutes and in Vincent Hall 16

8:30 - 9:00  Continental Breakfast (VinH 120)

9:00 Thomas Wolf (Brock University)
  An integrable non-abelian Laurent ODE

9:20 Ekaterina Shemyakova (Western University, Ontario)
  Application of moving frames to prove one long-standing conjecture in Darboux theory (exact methods for PDEs)

9:40 Philip Broadbridge (Latrobe University)
  Snippets from infiltration: Useful exact solutions to nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations

10:00 Wen-Xiu Ma (University of South Florida)
  Hamiltonian structures and recursion operators of integrable couplings

10:20 Junyo Tu (University of South Florida)
  Flow equations and recursion operator of ncKP hierarchy

10:40 Saadet Ozer (Yeditepe University)
  Equivalence and exact solutions

11:00 Hal Haggard (UC Berkeley)
  Symmetry reduction and polyhedral dynamics

11:20 Benson Muite (University of Michigan)
  Numerical simulations of the focussing Davey-Stewartson II equations

11:40 Alexander Medvedev (Belarussian State University)
  Geometry of the 3rd order ODEs systems and conformal circles