Organisers: MV Berry (Bristol), CJ Howls (Manchester), MD Kruskal (Rutgers), FWJ Olver (Maryland)
Connection Problems and WKB Analysis
Tuesday 14th March-Friday 17th March
Tuesday 14th March
- 0900: Registration
- 0930: N Joshi (New South Wales) The Painleve connection problem
- 1045: Coffee
- 1115: A Olde Daalhuis (Maryland) Calculation of Stokes multipliers
- 1230: Lunch
- 1400: BLJ Braaksma (Groningen) Multisummability and the Stokes phenomenon
- 1530: Tea
- 1600: MV Berry (Bristol) Superadiabatic renormalisation for Stokes constants and quantum transition prefactors
Wednesday 15th March
- 0930: T Kawai (Kyoto) WKB analysis of Painleve transcendents I
- 1045: Coffee
- 1115: Alain Joye (Marseille) Semiclassical asymptotics beyond all orders for simple scattering systems
- 1230: Lunch
- 1400: A. Voros (Saclay) Quartic oscillator problem
- 1530: Tea
- 1600: E Delabaere (Nice) Exact semi-classical
Thursday 16th March
- 0930: T Aoki (Kinki) WKB analysis of Painleve transcendents II
- 1045: Coffee
- 1115: PA Clarkson (Exeter) Backlund transformations and hierarchies of exact solutions for continuous and discrete fourth Painleve equations
- 1230: Lunch
- 1400: H Majima (Ochanomizu) On the flatness of the sheaf of asymptotically developable functions
- 1530: Tea
- 1600: HJ Silverstone (Johns Hopkins) Connection problems and Borel summation
Friday 17th March
- 0930: Y Takei (Kyoto) WKB analysis of Painleve transcendents III
- 1045: Coffee
- 1115: Y Ohyama (Osaka) Halphen-type equation for level three modular forms
- 1230: Lunch
- 1400: Fröman PO (Uppsala) Phase-integral approximation, Stokes phenomenon and connection problems
- 1530: Tea
- 1600: Fröman N (Uppsala) Exponential asymptotics associated with a simple turning point
Please note that because of the interest, the meeting has been extended by one day.