Program-at-a-Glance

Time for each presentation, including questions and answers

CP Contributed Presentations20 minutes
CM Contributed Minisymposia30 minutes
IM Invited Minisymposia30 minutes
IP Invited Plenary Presentations45 minutes

Sunday | Monday Morning | Monday Afternoon | Monday Evening | Tuesday Morning | Tuesday Afternoon |
Wednesday Morning | Wednesday Afternoon | Wednesday Evening | Thursday Morning | Thursday Afternoon |
Friday Morning | Friday Afternoon

Refer to the Conference Program for links to individual sessions

Time Session Room
Sunday, May 31
5:00 PM-7:30 PM Registration Student Center Lobby (2nd Level Prefunction Area)
6:00 PM-8:00 PM Welcoming Reception Berthoud Hall, Geology Museum (16th Street)
Monday Morning, June 1
7:00 AM-7:45 AM Breakfast Student Center Cafeteria
7:30 AM-3:30 PM Registration Student Center Lobby (2nd Level Prefunction Area)
7:45 AM- 8:00 AM Welcoming Remarks
John A. DeSanto, Colorado School of Mines
Room 246
8:00 AM-8:45 AM IP1 The Wave Mechanics of Acoustic Microscopy
Jan D. Achenbach, Northwestern University
Chair: Graeme Fairweather, Colorado School of Mines
Room 246
8:45 AM-9:45 AM
Concurrent Sessions
CP1 Elasticity I
Chair: John G. Harris, University of Illinois, Urbana
Room 246
CP2 Surface Scattering I
Chair: Simon N. Chandler-Wilde, Brunel University, United Kingdom
Room 244
CP3 Inverse Methods I
Chair: Guy Chavent, Université de Paris-Dauphine, France
Room 242
9:45 AM-10:15 AM CoffeeLobby Catwalk
10:15 AM-12:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions
IM1 Surface Scattering
Organizer: John A. DeSanto, Colorado School of Mines
Room 246
CM1 Theoretical, Numerical, and Experimental Aspects of Nonlinear, Dispersive Wave Propagation - Part I of III
Organizers: Min Chen, Pennsylvania State University; and Jerry L. Bona, University of Texas, Austin
Room 244
CM2 Inverse Spectral Problems
Organizer: Paul E. Sacks, Iowa State University
Room 242
Monday Afternoon, June 1
12:15 PM-1:30 PM Lunch Student Center Cafeteria
1:30 PM-2:15 PM IP2 Inverse Problems for a Perturbed Half-Space
Margaret Cheney, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Chair: John Berger, Colorado School of Mines
Room 246
2:15 PM-3:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions
CP4 Elasticity II
Chair: Andrzej Hanyga, University of Bergen, Norway
Room 246
CP5 Surface Scattering II
Chair: Alexander G. Voronovich, University of Colorado, Boulder
Room 244
CP6 Inverse Methods II
Chair: Giovanni F. Crosta, Universita Degli Studi, Italy
Room 242
3:15 PM-3:45 PM Coffee Lobby Catwalk
3:45 PM-4:45 PM
Concurrent Sessions
IM2 Crack Problems
Organizer: Paul A. Martin, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Room 246
CM3 Direct and Inverse Scattering in Extended Inhomogeneous Environments
Organizer: Louis Fishman, Naval Research Laboratory
Room 244
CM4 Emerging Methods in Electromagnetic and Acoustic Scattering - Part I of II
Organizers: Oscar P. Bruno, California Institute of Technology; and Fernando Reitich, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Room 242
Monday Evening, June 1
6:15 PM-8:00 PM Barbecue Dinner Kafadar's Commons (Illinois Street)
Tuesday Morning, June 2
7:00 AM-8:00 AM Breakfast Student Center Cafeteria
7:30 AM-3:30 PM Registration Student Center Lobby (2nd Level Prefunction Area)
8:00 AM-8:45 AM IP3 Parabolic Equation Techniques for Wave Propagation
Michael D. Collins, U. S. Naval Research Laboratory
Chair: Graeme Fairweather, Colorado School of Mines
Room 246
8:45 AM-9:45 AM
Concurrent Sessions
CP7 Elasticity III
Chair: M. Khurram Wadee, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Room 246
CP8 Electromagnetic Methods I
Chair: Patrick Joly, INRIA, France
Room 244
CP9 Wave Propagation I
Chair: Jeffery J. Leader, Santa Clara University
Room 242
9:45 AM-10:15 AM Coffee Lobby Catwalk
10:15 AM-12:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions
IM3 Selected Numerical Algorithms for Problems of Wave Propagation
Organizer: Gregory Beylkin, University of Colorado, Boulder
Room 246
CM5 Effective Boundary Conditions and Their Numerical Treatment for the Solution of Electromagnetic Scattering by Thin Coatings
Organizers: Abderrahmane Bendali, INSA Ecole Polytechnique, France; and Habib Ammari, CNRS Ecole Polytechnique, France
Room 244
CM6 Numerical Modeling for Wave Propagation in Elastic Media
Organizers: Eliane Becache and Patrick Joly, INRIA, France
Room 242
Tuesday Afternoon, June 2
12:15 PM-1:30 PM Lunch Student Center Cafeteria
1:30 PM-2:15 PM IP4 Mathematical Analysis of Conductive and Superconductive Transmission Lines
Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Ben Dhia, ENSTA, France
Chair: John Berger, Colorado School of Mines
Room 246
2:15 PM-3:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions
CP10 Elasticity IV
Chair: Dogan Turhan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Room 246
CP11 Electromagnetic Methods II
Chair: Jun-ichi Takada, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Room 244
CP12 Wave Propagation II
Chair: Elisabeth Larsson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Room 242
3:15 PM-3:45 PM Coffee Lobby Catwalk
3:45 PM-5:45 PM
Concurrent Sessions
IM4 Localization of Waves in Disordered Media
Organizers: John A. Scales and Erik S. Van Vleck, Colorado School of Mines
Room 246
CM7 Parabolic Equation Techniques
Organizer: Mireille F. Levy, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom
Room 244
CM8 Emerging Methods in Electromagnetic and Acoustic Scattering - Part II of II Organizers: Oscar P. Bruno, California Institute of Technology; and Fernando Reitich, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Room 242
Wednesday Morning, June 3
7:00 AM-8:00 AM Breakfast Student Center Cafeteria
7:30 AM-3:30 PM Registration Student Center Lobby (2nd Level Prefunction Area)
8:00 AM-8:45 AM IP5 Recent Progress on the Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering Problem for Anisotropic Media
David Colton, University of Delaware Chair: Graeme Fairweather, Colorado School of Mines
Room 246
8:45 AM-9:45 AM
Concurrent Sessions
CP13 Helmholtz and Wave Equations I
Chair: Olof B. Widlund, New York University
Room 246
CP14 Electromagnetic Methods III
Chair: Peter Monk, University of Delaware
Room 244
CP15 Inverse Methods III
Chair: Ricardo Weder, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
Room 242
9:45 AM-10:15 AM Coffee Lobby Catwalk
10:15 AM-12:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions
IM5 Nonlinear Waves in Optics Organizer: Mark J. Ablowitz, University of Colorado, Boulder Room 246
CM9 Wave and Maxwell Equations in the Neighborhood of Corners
Organizer: Olivier D. Lafitte, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique and ENS Cachan, France
Room 244
IM6 Stress Waves in Anisotropic Solids
Organizers: John Berger, Colorado School of Mines; and Vinod Tewary, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Room 242
Wednesday Afternoon, June 3
12:15 PM-1:30 PM Lunch Student Center Cafeteria
1:30 PM-2:15 PM IP6 Numerical Methods in Inverse Obstacle Scattering with Reduced Data
Rainer Kress, Universitat Gottingen, Germany
Chair: John Berger, Colorado School of Mines
Room 246
2:15 PM-3:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions
CP16 Helmholtz and Wave Equations II
Chair: Peter Monk, University of Delaware
Room 246
CP17 Wave Propagation III
Chair: Randall J. LeVeque, University of Washington
Room 244
CP18 Inverse Methods IV
Chair: Elena Cherkaeva, University of Utah
Room 242
3:15 PM-3:45 PM Coffee Lobby Catwalk
3:45 PM-4:45 PM
Concurrent Sessions
CP19 Elasticity V
Chair: R. K. Bhattacharyya, Brahmanada Keshab Chandra College, India
Room 246
CP20 Inverse Methods V
Chair: David Rosen, U. S. Army Research Laboratory
Room 244
CP21 Wave Propagation IV
Chair: Georg Hebermehl, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Germany
Room 242
4:45 PM-5:45 PM
Concurrent Sessions
CP22 Elasticity VI
Chair: Maria Perel, St. Petersburg University, Russia
Room 246
CP23 Inverse Methods VI
Chair: Guy Chavent, Universite Paris-Dauphine and INRIA, France
Room 244
CP24 Wave Propagation V
Chair: Seongjai Kim, University of Kentucky
Room 242
Wednesday Evening, June 3
6:15 PM-9:00 PM Buffet Dinner ($38.50) Table Mountain Inn (Washington Street)
Thursday Morning, June 4
7:00 AM-8:00 AM Breakfast Student Center Cafeteria
7:30 AM-3:30 PM Registration Student Center Lobby (2nd Level Prefunction Area)
8:00 AM-8:45 AM IP7 Optimal Design of a Diffractive Optical Element
(Joint work with Svetlana Rudnaya, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Alessandra Chiareli, 3M, St. Paul, Minnesota)
Fadil Santosa, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Chair: Graeme Fairweather, Colorado School of Mines
Room 246
8:45 AM-9:45 AM
Concurrent Sessions
CP25 Nonlinear Waves I
Chair: Lev A. Ostrovsky, University of Colorado, Boulder
Room 246
CP26 Helmholtz and Wave Equations III
Chair: Enrico Pieroni, CRS4, Italy
Room 244
CP27 Electromagnetic Methods IV
Chair: Jean-Jacques Niez, Service de Physique Nuclearie, CEA, France
Room 242
9:45 AM-10:15 AM Coffee Lobby Catwalk
10:15 AM-12:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions
IM7 Electromagnetic Scattering from Random Media
Organizer: Marc Saillard, Laboratoire d'Optique Electromagnetique, France
Room 246
CM10 Theoretical, Numerical and Experimental Aspects of Nonlinear, Dispersive Wave Propagation - Part II of III
Organizers: Min Chen, Pennsylvania State University; and Jerry L. Bona, University of Texas, Austin
Room 244
CM11 Parallel Computing for Wave Propagation Problems
Organizer: Michel Kern, INRIA, France
Room 242
Thursday Afternoon, June 4
12:15 PM-1:30 PM Lunch Student Center Cafeteria
1:30 PM-2:15 PM IP8 Recent Progress in Nonlinear Geometric Optics
Jeffrey Rauch, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Chair: John Berger, Colorado School of Mines
Room 246
2:15 PM-3:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions
CP28 Nonlinear Waves II
Chair: William L. Kath, Northwestern University
Room 246
CP29 Helmholtz and Wave Equation IV
Chair: John Cagnol, INRIA, France
Room 244
CP30 Electromagnetic Methods V
Chair: Peter G. Petropoulos, Southern Methodist University
Room 242
3:15 PM-3:45 PM Coffee Lobby Catwalk
3:45 PM-4:45 PM
Concurrent Sessions
CP31 Nonlinear Waves III
Chair: Johannes Gottlieb, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany
Room 246
CP32 Helmholtz and Wave Equations V
Chair: Chaoming Zhang, Rice University
Room 244
Room 244
CP33 Mathematical Methods
Chair: Jaime Seguel, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Room 242
4:45 PM-5:45 PM
Concurrent Sessions
CP34 Nonlinear Waves IV
Chair: John A. Scales, Colorado School of Mines
Room 246
CP35 Numerical Wave Theory
Chair: Rajen K. Sinha, Birla Institute of Technology, India
Room 244
CP36 Scattering Theory and Green's Functions
Chair: George Delic, Lockheed Martin Technical Services, Inc.
Room 242
Friday Morning, June 5
7:00 AM-8:00 AM Breakfast Student Center Cafeteria
7:30 AM-12:00 PM Registration Student Center Lobby (2nd Level Prefunction Area)
8:00 AM-8:45 AM IP9 Quadratic Functionals and Integral Equations for Harmonic Wave Equations in Exterior Domains
Bruno Despres, DCSA/MLS, CEA-CELV, France
Chair: Graeme Fairweather, Colorado School of Mines
Room 246
8:45 AM-9:45 AM
Concurrent Sessions
CP37 Numerical Methods
Chair: Patrick Joly, INRIA, France
Room 246
CP38 Diffraction
Chair: J. M. H. Lawry, OCIAM, United Kingdom
Room 244
CP39 Materials Related Models
Chair: Mark W. Coffey, Computing Devices International
Room 242
9:45 AM-10:15 AM Coffee Lobby Catwalk
10:15 AM-12:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions
IM8 Boundary Integral Methods for Selected Wave Propagation Problems
Organizer: Frank Rizzo, Iowa State University
Room 246
CM12 Symmetries, Conservation Laws, and Integrability of Wave Equations
Organizer: Willy A. Hereman, Colorado School of Mines
Room 244
CM13 Theoretical, Numerical, and Experimental Aspects of Nonlinear, Dispersive Wave Propagation - Part III of III
Organizers: Min Chen, Pennsylvania State University; and Jerry L. Bona, University of Texas, Austin
Room 242
Friday Afternoon, June 5
12:15 PM-1:30 PM Lunch Student Center Cafeteria
1:30 PM-2:15 PM IP10 A Wave Equation Approach to the Numerical Simulation of Incompressible Viscous Fluid Flow
Roland Glowinski, University of Houston
Chair: John Berger, Colorado School of Mines
Room 246
2:15 PM-3:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions
CP40 Integral Equations
Chair: Bas Michielsen, ONERA, France
Room 246
CP41 Water Waves
Chair: Andre Nachbin, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil
Room 244
CP42 General Wave Theory I
Chair: Edward Szaraniec, Cracow University of Technology, Poland
Room 242
3:15 PM-3:45 PM Coffee Lobby Catwalk
3:45 PM-4:45 PM
Concurrent Sessions
CP43 Nonlinear Waves V
Chair: Anjan Biswas, University of New Mexico
Room 246
CP44 General Wave Theory II
Chair: To be announced
Room 244
CM14 Seismic Wave Modeling and Its Engineering Applications
Organizers: Ray Ruichong Zhang, Colorado School of Mines; and Ronald Y. S. Pak, University of Colorado, Boulder
Room 242
4:45 PM-5:45 PM
Concurrent Sessions
CP45 Nonlinear Waves VI
Chair: Mina B. Abd-el-Malek, Alexandria University, Egypt
Room 244
CP46 General Wave Theory III
Chair: Vladimir A. Borovikov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia and Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico
Room 246
5:45 PM Conference adjourns

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