Solitons, Singularities, Surreals and Such: A Conference in Honor of Martin Kruskal's Eightieth Birthday

Thursday & Friday, September 15 & 16, 2005
Rutgers University
110 Frelinghuysen Road, Hill Center Room 705

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Thursday - September 15, 2005

8:30 - 9:00
Juice, Coffee, etc.

9:00 - 9:45
Solitary Waves from Optics to Water Waves
M. Ablowitz, University of Colorado, markjab@boulder.colorado.edu

9:45 - 10:30
Soliton Models of Waves in Shallow Water
H. Segur, University of Colorado, Boulder, segur@boulder.colorado.edu

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee

11:00 - 11:45
The Analytical Inversion of Integrals Arising in the Imaging of the Brain and in the Dirichlet to Neumann Map
T. Fokas, University of Cambridge, t.fokas@damtp.cam.ac.uk

11:45 - 12:30
Painleve Hierarchies
N. Joshi, The University of Sydney, nalini@maths.usyd.edu.au

12:30 - 2:00
Lunch


2:00 - 2:45
The Zero Dispersion Limit for KdV
P. Lax, NYU, lax@cims.nyu.edu

2:45 - 3:30
Solitons and the Inverse Scattering Method: A Historical View
R. Miura, New Jersey Institute of Technology, miura@njit.edu

3:30 - 4:00
Coffee


4:00 - 4:45
Gauge Theory and the Geometric Langlands Program
E. Witten, IAS, Princeton, witten@ias.edu

4:45 - 5:30
Scaling Matterhorn with Martin in the Fifties
R. Kulsrud, Princeton University, rkulsrud@astro.princeton.edu

6:30
Cocktails and Dinner
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
71 Hamilton St.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Friday - September 16, 2005


8:30 - 9:00
Juice, Coffee, etc.

9:00 - 9:45
Special Polynomials Associated with Rational Solutions of the Painleve Equations
P. Clarkson, University of Kent, P.A.Clarkson@ukc.ac.uk

9:45 - 10:30
What Is It that Mathematicians Do and Computers Cannot
A. Ramani, Ecole Polytechnique, ramani@cpht.polytechnique.fr

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee


11:00 - 11:45
Asymptotic Analysis of the Extreme Statistical Mechanics of Networked Computer Storage
S. Orszag, Yale University, orszag@math.yale.edu

11:45 - 12:30
Universality for Orthogonal and Symplectic Ensembles in Random Matrix Theory
P. Deift, New York University, deift@CIMS.nyu.edu

12:30 - 1:40
Lunch


1:40 - 2:40
The Transition from Regular to Irregular Motions Explained as Travel on Riemann Surfaces (Math. Colloquium)
F. Calogero, University of Rome, Italy, calogero@roma1.infn.it

2:40 - 3:10
Coffee

3:10 - 3:55
Integrability, Nonintegrability and the Poly-Painleve Test
R. Costin, Ohio State, rcostin@math.rutgers.edu

3:55 - 4:40
Discrete Painleve Property, and Integrability versus Chaos in Difference Equations
O. Costin, Ohio State, costin@math.rutgers.edu

4:40 - 5:25
The Chromatic Number of the Plane: the Bounded Case
C. Kruskal, University of Maryland, kruskal@cs.umd.edu

5:30
Refreshments, with music by KUMIKO IMAMURA, harpsichord.

Ms. Imamura has given concerts in Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, .... She will play music by Adagio, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Scarlatti and Takahashi. For more information see: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~rcostin/Kumiko_program.html