Self-Focusing
and Ultrafast Lasers
This
mini-symposium is being organized in order to bring together
researchers who are studying self-focusing, ingularity formation,
soliton propgation in ultrafast lasers andstability in Nonlinear
Schrödinger equations, with emphasis on application to Nonlinear
Optics and Bose-Einstein
Condensates. These areas of research are seeing intense
multidisciplinary research in fundamental science and with a wide
scope of applications,e.g., ultra-precise clocks and optical signal
processing. Typical mathematical models involve nonlinear
Schrodinger-type equations. Because of the novelty and complexity of
these physical systems, it is expected that a synthesis of modeling,
rigorous and asymptotic analyses, and computational methods will be
subjects of significant discussion. The general purpose of this
minisymposium is to bring together theoretical and experimental
researchers from different disciplines working in these areas, and
to provide a forum for the multidisciplinary discussion of current
and future research directions.
Organizer:
Boaz
Ilan
(School of Natural Sciences, University of California at Merced, USA)
Speakers List (in alphabetical order of authors):
1) Mark J. Ablowitz (University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Applied Mathematics, USA)
Soltons and Dynamics in Mode Locked Lasers
2) Nalan Antar (Istanbul Technical University, TURKEY)
Band Gap Formation, Fundamental Solitons and Vortices in Two Dimensional Lattices
3) Guy Baruch (Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL)
Solution of the nonlinear-Helmholtz equation for self-focusing beams
4) Zhigang Chen (San Francisco State University, USA)
Discrete solitons and singularity formation in reconfigurable photonic lattices
5) Gadi Fibich (Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL)
Stabilities of lattice solitons
6) Nir Gavish (Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL)
Singular vortex solutions of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation
7) Boaz Ilan (School of Natural Sciences, University of California at Merced, USA)
NLS stability theory for solitons in inhomogenous media
8) F. Ömer İlday (Bilkent University, TURKEY)
Spectrally breathing femtosecond pulses from an Er-doped fiber laser
9) Ziad H. Musslimani (Florida State University, USA)
Wave propagation in PT waveguide arrays
10) Zuoqiang Shi (Tsinghua University, China)
Instability of Two-dimensional Lattice Solitons Near Edges of Bloch Bands in Periodic Media
11) Can Sun (Princeton University, USA)
Observation of Peakon Profile in Nonlocal Nonlinear Collapse
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