13 Aug--31 Aug 2001
Organisers: Dr SE Belcher (Reading), Professor TJ Bridges (Surrey), Dr SG Sajjadi (John C. Stennis Space Center)
11.30 – 11.45 Coffee & Registration
11.45 – 12.30 Walter Craig (McMaster)
Resonances in Hamiltonian systems and water waves
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.45 Brenny van Groesen (Twente)
Construction and (a priori) justification of low-dimensional models for water waves
14.45 – 15.30 Gerard Iooss (INLN, Nice)
A new type of codimension-one bifurcation for infinite dimensional reversible vector fields with application to water waves
15.30 – 16.00 Tea
16.00 – 16.45 Guido Schneider (Bayreuth)
The validity of 2D water wave models
16.45 – 17.30 John Toland (Bath)
Global mathematical aspects of some classical water-wave problems
17.30 – 18.30 Wine Reception at the Newton Institute
These lectures are linked to the Isaac Newton Institute Programme on Surface Water Waves.
Anyone interested is welcome to attend. Lunch will be provided at a nominal charge. For catering purposes, please advise Tracey Andrew at the Isaac Newton Institute, 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge CB3 0EH by 6 August 2001 if you intend to come.
There are limited funds available to assist research students to attend. Please apply by 6 August 2001 to Tracey Andrew at the Isaac Newton Institute.
Scientific enquiries may be addressed to Professor Tom Bridges.