Abstract:
The discovery of the complete integrability of the Korteweg-de Vries equation is just 50 years old and the influence of this discovery has generated a new field of research, called soliton theory, with wide-ranging and unexpected applications. By gathering a group of researchers from all over the world, this session will highlight some current contributions to this field, touching on such topics as integrable models in physics and their discrete analogues, exotic exact solutions for integrable nonlinear equations, asymptotic analysis of integrable nonlinear wave problems, and connections with the theory of special functions and statistical physics.
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