Amy Cohen, Rutgers University
Solitons and What is Odd About Odd Multiples of pi/2
4:00 pm –
4:50 pm
Location:
Avery Hall
Room: 115
Abstract: The Korteweg-deVries (KdV) equation and the nonlinear Schrodinger equation in one space dimension and with cubic non-linearity (NLS) both display soliton solutions and both are amenable to a so-called inverse scattering analysis. The story …