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Friday, April 2

Colloquium

Amy Cohen, Rutgers University

Solitons and What is Odd About Odd Multiples of pi/2

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Time:
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 …