9:00 AM
Registration
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Welcome and opening remarks
Baofeng Feng (Convener)
Parwinder Grewal (Executive Vice President, UTRGV)
Mahammed Farooqui (Dean, COS, UTRGV)
Tim Huber (Director SMSS, UTRGV)
Yusuke Nakamura (Advisor, JSPS Washington Office)
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Yasuhiro Ohta, Periodic Phase Solitons for Discrete and Ultradiscrete Equations
11:00 AM - 11:50AM
Gino Biondini, Self-Focusing Dynamics with Non-Zero Background: Inverse Scattering, Modulational Instability and Solitons
Noon -1:00 PM
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM: JSPS Info Session
Dennis Hart, Welcome remark
Yusuke Nakashima, JSPS International Programs: Funding Opportunities for US Students and Faculty
Personal Experience of Stay in Japan as JSPS Fellow (1:30 PM - 2:30 PM)
Acadia Larsen (UTRGV)
Austin Marstaller (UTRGV)
Nathalie Luna Rivera (UTRGV)
Baofeng Feng (UTRGV)
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Coffee break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Karen Yagdjian, Integral transform approach to solving hyperbolic equations in the curved space-times
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Sergey Grigorian, Soliton solutions of the modified Laplacian coflow of G2-structures on manifolds with symmetry
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Vesselin Vatchev, Some properties of wronskian solutions of nonlinear differential equations
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Eleftherios Gkioulekas, The role of the asymmetric Ekman dissipation term on the energetics of the two-layer quasi-geostrophic model
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Brandt Kronholm, Restricted partitions: recent results and methods
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Arturo Martinez, A quasipolynomial decomposition of partitions into at most m parts and the coefficients of Gaussian polynomials
9:30 AM - 10:20 AM
Peter Miller, Some Interesting Solutions of the Painlevé-III Equation
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Vladimir Dragovic, Algebro-geometric solutions to the Schlesinger and Painleve VI equations
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Lunch Break
1:00 AM - 1:50 AM
Barbara Prinari, Discrete Solitons for the Focusing Ablowitz-Ladik Equation with Non-Zero Boundary Conditions via Inverse Scattering Transform
2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Kenichi Maruno, Soliton interactions of the KP and DKP equations and their network diagrams
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Junchao Chen, Gram determinant solutions to local and nonlocal integrable discrete NLS equations via a pair reduction