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非线性演化国际会议 方程与波动现象：计算与理论 二○ ○五年四月十一日至十四日 格鲁吉亚大学 雅典，GA 30602，美国摘要部分支持请求`第四届IMACS国际会议非线性演化方程和波动现象：计算与理论“将在格鲁吉亚大学举行（4月11日至14日，2005年），由IMACS赞助（国际数学和计算机模拟协会）。演讲将被邀请（约4）和提交（约120人），预计出席人数约为150人。所要求的支持是四位受邀演讲者、学生、最近的博士生的费用，以及会议运营的一些直接费用。 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学、非谐晶体、气泡-液体混合物、光纤等领域的广泛的物理现象。值得注意的是，光纤通信在过去的二十年里经历了迅猛的发展。仅在过去十年中，数据速率就以数量级的方式增加。与此同时，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领域之一，并产生了对更高传输容量的前所未有的需求。在会议上，研究人员将介绍这一广泛领域的最新研究，包括孤子的理论和计算。此外，研究将提出使用高性能计算机解决计算密集型问题。这次会议将在去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，提交了135份以上的研究论文。这包括提供的文件和在组织的会议上提出的文件。此外，还讲授了“光纤通信系统简介”。六名特邀演讲者，十名学生和一名博士后全部或部分由赠款支持。研究生获得了三项“最佳论文”奖。超过13名学生和博士后以及11名妇女参加了会议。来自海军研究实验室和洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室的许多科学家出席了会议。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民族和残疾人的代表，这次会议预计将对主要讨论领域的研究和教学质量产生重大影响，这是因为它的跨学科性质以及邀请的演讲者和参与者的高质量。来自数学、物理、化学、计算机科学、工程和工业的与会者出席了以前的会议。

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.