The Fourth IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory; April 11-14, 2005; Athens, GA

第四届iMACS非线性发展方程和波动现象国际会议：计算与理论，2005年4月11日至14日，美国佐治亚州雅典大学，GA 30602。请为将于4月11日至14日在佐治亚大学举行的第四届iMACS非线性发展方程和波动现象国际会议：计算与理论提供部分支持。2005年)，由国际数学与计算机模拟协会(IMACS)赞助。将邀请(约4人)和提交(约120人)出席，预计出席人数约150人。所请求的支持用于四位受邀演讲者、学生、最近的博士获得者的费用，以及会议运作的一些直接成本。拟议的会议将集中在非线性波和光纤通信系统的计算和理论方面。非线性波动方程描述了等离子体物理中的一大类物理现象，如非谐晶体、气泡-液体混合物、光纤等。值得注意的是，光纤通信在过去的二十年里经历了巨大的发展。仅在过去十年，数据速率就增加了几个数量级。与此同时，最近互联网和万维网的兴起使这一领域迅速成为国家和全球经济的关键技术部门之一，并产生了前所未有的对更高传输容量的需求。在会议上，研究人员将介绍包括孤子理论和计算在内的广泛领域的最新研究。此外，还将介绍使用高性能计算机解决计算密集型问题的研究。这次会议将在前一年会议成功的基础上再接再厉。2003年，在这一系列的第三次会议上，发表了135多篇研究论文。这包括投稿的论文和在有组织的会议上提交的论文。此外，还给出了《光纤通信系统简介》的教程。6名受邀演讲者、10名学生和1名博士后全部或部分得到了赠款的支持。三个‘最佳论文’奖颁发给研究生。超过13名学生和博士后以及11名女性参加了这次会议。来自海军研究实验室以及洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室的大量科学家出席了会议。我们期待在第四次会议上有更多的妇女代表，我们正在努力增加少数群体和残疾人的代表。这次会议预计将对主要话语领域的研究和教学质量产生重大影响，这是因为它具有学科性质，以及受邀请的演讲者和与会者的高质量。来自数学、物理、化学、计算机科学、工程和工业的代表出席了以往的会议。

The Fourth IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory April 11-14, 2005 University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602, USA ABSTRACTPartial Support is requested for `The Fourth IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory' to be held at the University of Georgia (April 11- 14, 2005) and sponsored byIMACS (International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation).Presentations will be both invited (about 4) and submitted (about 120), and attendance is estimated to be 150 or so. The requested support is for theexpenses of the four invited speakers, students, recent doctoral recipients, and some of the direct costs of operating the conference. The proposed conference will focus on computational and theoretical aspects of nonlinear waves and optical fiber communication systems. Nonlinear wave equations describe a wide class of physical phenomena in plasma physics, anharmonic crystals, bubble-liquid mixtures, fiber optics, etc. It is to be noted that fiber optics communications has experienced tremendousgrowth in the last twenty years. In the last decade alone, data rates have increased by orders of magnitude. At the same time, the recent rise of the Internet and the World-Wide Web has quickly contributed to make this area one of the key technological sectors in the national and global economy, and has generated an unprecedented demand for even higher transmission capacities.At the conference, researchers will present recent research in the broad area that include theory and computations of solitons.In addition, research will be presented that uses high performance computersfor solving computationally intensive problems. This conference will build on the success of the previous year's conference. In 2003, at the third conference in this series, more than 135 research papers were presented. This includes contributed papers and papers presented in organized sessions. In addition, a tutorial on `Introduction to Optical Fiber Communication Systems' was given. Six invited speakers, ten students and 1 post-doc were fully or partially supported by the grant. Three `best paper' awards were give to graduate students. More than 13 students and post-docs as well as 11 women have participated in the conference. A good number of scientists from the Naval research laboratories as well as the Los Alamos National laboratories were present. We expect an even greater representation of women at the fourth conference, and we are working hard to increase the representation of minorities and persons with disabilities.This conference is expected to have a substantial impact on the quality of theresearch and teaching in the major areas of discourse which is due to itsinterdisciplinary nature as well as to the high quality of the invited speakers and participants. Participants from Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry,Computer Science, Engineering and Industry were present at the previous conferences.