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Math Colloquium: Solitons: How They Were Found, How They Could Have Been Found
Start Date: 10/31/2016Start Time: 3:00 PM
End Date: 10/31/2016End Time: 4:00 PM

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Ron Perline, PhD, Drexel University

 

Abstract: Soliton theory (or completely integrable systems) was one of the major discoveries in mathematical physics in the 20th century. This is (essentially) the 50th anniversary of a series of seminal papers describing the structure of the first important equation "officially" discovered to be in the completely integrable category: the Korteweg-deVries equation. I will describe some aspects of the important papers of Miura, Kruskal, Greene, Zabusky, and Gardner. I will also discuss another "path to integrability" which almost beat KdV in terms of the time-line of research.

Contact Information:
Name: Ron Perline
Email: rperline@math.drexel.edu
Location:
Korman Center, Room 245, 15 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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