NONLINEAR GUIDED WAVES

 

Location

Laboratoire de Mathéematiques Appliquées et Informatique

When

Wednesday the 24th to Friday the 26th March, 2010, inclusive.

Address

Laboratoire de Mathéematiques Appliquées et Informatique,
Département de Mathématiques et Informatique,
Cadi Ayyad University,
BP549 Marrakech,
Morocco.

University web address

Cadi Ayyad University.

Aims of Workshop

The workshop Nonlinear Guided Waves   is part of a series devoted to nonlinear optics and light localization.  Its main aims are to pinpoint the state-of-the-art and the recent advances in the field and to introduce non-specialist researchers in physics, engineering and applied mathematics to the required background and current research on nonlinear guided waves in soft matter, particularly in liquid crystals. It is anticipated that the workshop will lead to new scientific collaborations, including those between local and overseas researchers.

 

Organising Committee

• Chairman: Gaetano Assanto, University of Rome "Roma Tre", Italy
• Chairman: Abdelilah Hakim, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco
• Noureddine Alaa, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco
• Abdeslem Hafid Bentbib, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco
• Abdellatif Ellabib, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco
• Rashid Khiri, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco
• Panayotis Panayotaros, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
  
• Noel Smyth, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 
• Annette Worthy, University of Wollongong, Australia
• Mehdi Zahid, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco

Speakers

• Nail Akhmediev, Australian National University, Australia:  Theoretical aspects of rogue waves
• Noureddine Alaa, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco:  Theoretical and numerical analysis of quasi-linear parabolic and periodic problem with strong nonlinearity with respect to the gradient
• Gaetano Assanto, University of Rome "Roma Tre", Italy:  Nematicons: self-confined beams of photons which enjoy traveling together in nematic liquid crystals
  
• Ricardo Carretero, San Diego State University, U.S.A.: Faraday waves in Bose-Einstein condensates
  
• Gennady El, Loughborough University, United Kingdom:  Two-dimensional supersonic nonlinear Schrodinger flows past obstacles
  
• Cathy Garcia-Reimbert, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico:  Evolution of crescent solitons in nematic liquid crystals
  
• Tamara Grava, SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies), Italy:  Universality of critical behaviour in Hamiltonian PDEs
  
• Kyriakos Hitzanidis, National Technical University, Greece:  Spatio-temporal vortex lattices in three dimensions
  
• Miroslaw Karpierz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland:  Nematicons in chiral nematic liquid crystals
  
• Tim Marchant, University of Wollongong, Australia:  Semi-analytical results for nematic liquid crystal undular bores
  
• Sergey Nazarenko, University of Warwick, United Kingdom:  Wave turbulence: ideas, assumptions, open problems and applications
  
• Panayotis Panayotaros, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico:  Continuation and bifurcations of breathers in a finite discrete NLS lattice
  
• Stefania Residori, Institut Nonlineaire De Nice, France:  Wave turbulence and photon condensation in a nonlinear optical experiment
  
• Noel Smyth, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom:  Nematicons and defects:  Nonlinear beam propagation in dye-doped liquid crystals
  
• Majid Taki, University of Lille, France:  Generation of optical rogue waves in a photonic crystal fiber: Theory and experiments
  
• Epifanio Virga, University of Pavia, Italy:  Reynolds approach to nematoacoustic
• Annette Worthy, University of Wollongong, Australia:  Parametric resonance modulation of discrete nematicons
  
• Naji Yebari, University of Abdel Malik Essaadi, Morocco:  On the boundary stabilization of some vibrating problems with variable coefficients

Registration Fee

€250, payable on site.

Talk Schedule

Workshop Hotel
Ryad Mogador Menzah Hotel Reservation form

Ryad Mogador Menzah Hotel

Workshop Excursion

Ourkka Valley

Information about Ourika valley

Details of hotel costs, airport transfers, excursion costs and workshop dinner costs (in French)

Costs