ICTP/SISSA Joint Colloquium in Mathematics (16/4) - REMINDER

[Math]

ICTP/SISSA

Joint Colloquium in Mathematics

Announcement



Wednesday, 16 April 2008, at 14.00 hrs.



Professor Charles Stuart

(EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)



Orbital stability of standing waves for the nonlinear Schrödinger  
equation



Abstract: Standing waves are time-periodic solutions of the nonlinear  
Schrödinger equation having a special form. It is natural to  
investigate their stability with respect to perturbations of the  
initial condition. Orbital stability is the appropriate notion but  
the Hamiltonian structure of the problem means that a linearized  
analysis is insufficient to establish stability. After reviewing the  
main issues involved in such a study, we shall give a survey of some  
results on this topic.



Venue:  ICTP Main Lecture Hall,

Leonardo Building, entrance level