- Series
- PDE Seminar
- Time
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 255
- Speaker
- Bob Pego – Carnegie Mellon University – http://www.math.cmu.edu/~bobpego/
- Organizer
- Chongchun Zeng
A classic story of nonlinear science started with the
particle-like
water wave that Russell famously chased on horseback in 1834. I will
recount progress regarding the robustness of solitary waves in
nonintegrable model systems such as FPU lattices, and discuss progress
toward a proof (with Shu-Ming Sun) of spectral stability of small
solitary waves for the 2D Euler equations for water of finite depth
without surface tension.