NONLINEAR WAVES CONFERENCE
May 8 - 11, 2008
Conference Banquet, May 10, 2008
Brown University Faculty Club
1 Magee Street
Cocktails – 6:00pm
Buffet – 7:00 pm
If you plan to attend the banquet, please contact Madeline Brewster ( Madeline_Brewster "at" Brown.edu) by May 1, 2008. The fee for the banquet is $25 per person.
Conference Schedule (PDF)
Invited Speakers
Claude Bardos (Paris)
Adrian
Constantin (Dublin)
Patrick
Gerard (Orsay)
Manoussos Grillakis (Maryland)
Peter Lax (Courant)
George Papanicolaou (Stanford)
Robert Pego (CMU)
Gerhard
Rein (Bayreuth)
Igor Rodnianski (Princeton)
Wilhelm
Schlag (Chicago)
Marshall Slemrod (Wisconsin)
Gigliola
Staffilani (MIT)
Catherine Sulem (Toronto)
Yoshio
Tsutsumi (Kyoto)
Giorgio
Velo (Bologna)
Cédric Villani (Lyon)
Sijue Wu (Michigan)
Horng-Tzer
Yau (Harvard)
Organizing Committee
C. Dafermos
R. Glassey
Y. Guo
G. Menon
J. Shatah
Conference AgendaRegistration
All are welcome to attend. There is no registration fee. However, in order to facilitate our planning, please send your name and the dates you plan to attend the conference to: mb@dam.brown.edu with the subject line: Nonlinear Waves Conference.
Conference Location
Marcovitz Auditorium, Room 220
Sidney Frank Hall for Life Sciences
185 Meeting Street
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island.
Lodging
Conference speakers will stay on the Brown University campus at the Saunders Inn located in the Vartan Gregorian Quad, 101 Thayer Street, Providence, RI 02912. Telephone: 401-863-7500. The e-mail address is The_Inn@Brown.edu
Thirty rooms have been reserved for general participants in the Radisson Hotel at the special rate of $103.00 per night. Hotel parking is free. To reserve hotel rooms, participants should ask for the Special Rate for the Nonlinear Waves Conference at Brown University. The special rate is only guaranteed until April 18. The Radisson Hotel is located on 220 India Street, Providence, RI 02903. Telephone: 401-272-5577
Financial Support:
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Provost's Office of Brown, Division of Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, and the Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems.
Limited travel support is available for young mathematicians attending the conference. Click here.
For more information, please contact Mrs. Madeline Brewster at mb@dam.brown.edu
Presented by the Department of Mathematics and Division of Applied Mathematics
In honor of Walter Strauss
on his 70th Birthday