Special Session 24: Geometric methods in spectral theory of traveling waves and patterns
Organizer(s): Graham Cox , Yuri Latushkin , Alim Sukhtayev

Parallel Session 6 :: Friday, June 2, 08:00 – 10:00                     LH139
8:00-8:30	Peter Howard (Texas A&M University, USA)  Oscillation Theory and Instability of Nonlinear Waves

8:30-9:00

Graham Cox (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)  Turing instability via the generalized Maslov index

9:00-9:30

Alim Sukhtayev (Miami University, USA)  Fredholm determinants, Evans functions and Maslov indices

9:30-10:00

Selim Sukhtaiev (Auburn University, USA)  Resolvent expansions for self-adjoint operators via boundary triplets

Parallel Session 7 :: Friday, June 2, 14:00 – 16:00                     LH139
14:00-14:30	Nils Waterstraat (MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)  K-theoretic Methods in the Computation of the Maslov-Index

14:30-15:00

Maciej Starostka (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)  Arnold conjecture on $CP^n$ as a bifurcation problem.

15:00-15:30

Mitchell Curran (The University of Sydney, Australia)  Hamiltonian spectral flows, the Maslov index, and the stability of NLS standing waves

15:30-16:00

Atanas Stefanov (University of Alabama - Birmingham, USA)  Solitary waves in the NLS system of the third-harmonic generation

Parallel Session 8 :: Friday, June 2, 16:30 – 19:00                     LH139
16:30-17:00	Emmanuel Fleurantin (George Mason University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)  On the Interplay of Transient Dynamics and Noise-Induced Tipping

17:00-17:30

Alin Pogan (Miami University, USA)  Spectrum of Non-planar Traveling Waves

17:30-18:00

Stephane Lafortune (Male, USA)  Spectral and Linear Stability of Peakon solutions

18:00-18:30

Vahagn Manukian (Miami University, USA)  Multi-scale reduction of modified Holling-Tanner model with an Allee effect

18:30-19:00

Milena Stanislavova (University of Alabama Birmingham, USA)  On the stability of the periodic waves for the Benney and Zakharov systems