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非线性演化方程与波动现象国际会议：计算与理论，2005年4月11-14日乔治亚大学雅典分校，GA 30602，美国“计算与理论”将于2005年4月11日至14日在乔治亚大学举行，由imacs（国际数学与计算机模拟协会）赞助。报告将被邀请（约4）和提交（约120），出席人数估计在150左右。所要求的支持用于支付四名受邀演讲者、学生、最近的博士获得者的费用，以及会议运营的一些直接费用。会议将集中讨论非线性波和光纤通信系统的计算和理论问题。非线性波动方程描述了等离子体物理、非调和晶体、气泡-液体混合物、光纤等领域中广泛的物理现象。值得注意的是，在过去的二十年里，光纤通信经历了巨大的增长。仅在过去十年中，数据速率就以数量级增长。与此同时，最近互联网和万维网的兴起迅速使这一领域成为国家和全球经济的关键技术部门之一，并对更高的传输能力产生了前所未有的需求。在会议上，研究人员将展示包括孤子理论和计算在内的广泛领域的最新研究。此外，将介绍使用高性能计算机解决计算密集型问题的研究。这次会议将以去年会议的成功为基础。2003年，在这个系列的第三次会议上，发表了超过135篇研究论文。这包括投稿论文和在有组织的会议上发表的论文。此外，还提供了“光纤通信系统导论”的教程。6名特邀演讲嘉宾、10名学生和1名博士后获得了全额或部分资助。三篇“最佳论文”奖颁给了研究生。超过13名学生和博士后以及11名女性参加了会议。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。我们期望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。由于其跨学科性质以及受邀演讲者和参与者的高质量，预计本次会议将对主要话语领域的研究和教学质量产生重大影响。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.