Wednesday, May 20

10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Chair: Rebecca Hoyle, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Superior B - Level C

CP24
Waves and Ginzburg-Landau Equations

10:00 Convective and Absolute Instability in Finite Containers
Steven M. Tobias, University of Colorado, Boulder; Edgar Knobloch, University of California, Berkeley; and Michael R. E. Proctor, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
10:20 Fronts Between Rolls of Different Wavenumbers in the Presence of Broken Reflection Symmetry
Rebecca Hoyle, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
10:40 Dynamics of a 2-Dimensional Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation with Chiral Symmetry Breaking
Keeyeol Nam, Michael Gabbay, Parvez N. Guzdar, and Edward Ott, University of Maryland, College Park
11:00 Coupled Oscillators in Fluid Mechanics: Wakes Behind Rows of Cylinders
Patrice Le Gal, Jean-Francis Ravoux, and Isabelle Peschard, Université d'Aix-Marseille I & II-CNRS, France
11:20 Vortex Dynamics in Dissipative Systems
Elsebeth Schroder, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark; and Ola Tornkvist, NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Center
11:40 Noise Sensitivity and Boundary Effects in Travelling Wave Instabilities
Michael R. E. Proctor, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Edgar Knobloch, University of California, Berkeley; and Steven M. Tobias, University of Colorado, Boulder
12:00 Defects and Domain Walls in the 2d Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
Greg Huber, University of Chicago; Tomas Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark; and Edward Ott, University of Maryland, College Park

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