Presentations in conferences

1. Gordon Research Conference on Fractals, Il Ciocco - Barga, Italy, May 10 - 15, 1998 [Title of poster presented: "Hausdorff-Besicovitch Dimension of a continuous fractal set generated from two-scale objects"].

2. The 21st CNLS Annual Conference: Principles of Soft Matter, Santa Fe, NM, USA, May 21-25, 2001 [Title of poster presented: "Normal scaling in globally conserved phase ordering of fractal clusters"].

3. Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics: Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics, July 2-27, 2001 [A one hour seminar on “Normal scaling in globally conserved interface-controlled coarsening of fractal clusters” was given, and a poster with the same title was presented].

4. Arizona Days 2002, CNLS/LANL, Los Alamos, NM, USA, February 1-2, 2002 [Title of talk given: “Globally conserved interface-controlled relaxation of fractal clusters”].

5. The Annual APS March Meeting 2003, Austin, TX, USA, March 3-7, 2003 [Title of poster presented: “Inelastic collisions between non-ideal solitons in optical fibers”].

6. SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, UT, USA, May 27-31, 2003 [Title of talk given: “Inter-channel interactions between non-ideal solitons”].

7. Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Nonlinear Optics & Lasers, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, USA, Jul 27-Aug 1, 2003 [Title of poster: “Effects of perturbations on collisions between short pulses in optical fibers”].

8. Frontiers in Optics, The 87th OSA Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, USA, October 5-9, 2003 [Title of talk: “Inelastic collisions of solitons in optical fibers”.]

9. The AMS 2003 Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, October 24-25, 2003 [Title of invited talk: “Effects of perturbations on collisions between optical solitons”.]

10. The Argonne Theory Institute Workshop: Fundamentals of Self-Assembly in Complex Materials: Self-Organization and Continuum Models, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA, August 26-27, 2004 [Title of invited talk: "Ostwald ripening and coalescence in globally conserved interface-controlled coarsening".]

11. Frontiers in Optics, The 88th OSA Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, USA, October 10-14, 2004 [Title of talk: “Emergence of lognormal distribution for pulse amplitudes due to Raman cross talk in WDM soliton transmission”.]

12. The Annual APS March Meeting 2005, Los Angeles, CA, USA, March 21-25, 2005 [Title of talk: “Effect of weak dissipative disorder on front formation in pattern forming systems”.]

13. The Annual APS March Meeting 2005, Los Angeles, CA, USA, March 21-25, 2005 [Title of talk: “Strongly non-Gaussian statistics of optical soliton parameters in multichannel transmission due to delayed Raman response”.]

14. The Binational Spring School on Nonlinear Optics and Multiscale Photonics, Tucson, AZ, USA, April 1-3, 2005 [Title of invited talk: “Effects of dissipative disorder on nonlinear coherent patterns: from soliton collisions in optical fibers to diverging distributions in pattern formation”.]

15. The 2005 AFOSR Workshop on Nonlinear Optics, Tucson, AZ, October 4 - 5, 2005 [Title of poster: “Propagation of multiple Gaussian beams with different wavelengths through atmospheric turbulence”.]

16. SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Seattle, WA, USA, September 9-12, 2006 [Title of invited talk: “Intermittent dynamics in massive multichannel optical fiber communication systems”.]

17. The 2006 AFOSR Workshop on Nonlinear Optics, Tucson, AZ, USA, October 17-18, 2006 [Title of poster: “Using optical beams with controlled degree of spatial coherence for communicating through turbulent atmosphere: theory and experiment”.]

18. Photonics West 2007 - SPIE conference on Lasers and Applications in Science and Engineering, San Jose, California, USA, January 20–25 2007 [Title of talk: “Scintillation index for N Gaussian laser beams with different wavelengths in weak atmospheric turbulence”.]

19. The AMS 2008 Spring Eastern Section Meeting, Courant Institute, New York University, New York, NY, USA, March 15-16, 2008 [Title of talk: “Raman-induced energy exchange between optical solitons as a random cascade model”].

20. SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, UT, USA, May 17-21, 2009 [Title of talk: “Diverging probability density functions in stochastic nonlinear wave equations”].

21. 2009 SIAM Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, July 6-10, 2009 [Title of invited talk: “The effects of stimulated Raman scattering on pulse propagation in massive multichannel fiber optics communication systems”].

22. 2009 SIAM Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, July 6-10, 2009 [Title of invited talk (presented by Quan M. Nguyen): “Dynamics of average Raman crosstalk effects in multichannel optical fiber communication systems”].

23. New York Conference on Applied Mathematics,  Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA, October 17, 2009 [Title of talk: "Dynamics of pulse parameters in multichannel optical fiber communication systems"].

24. New York Conference on Applied Mathematics,  Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA, October 17, 2009 [Title of poster (presented by Quan M. Nguyen): "A model of Raman crosstalk effects in massive amplified WDM transmission"].

25. The Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC), San Diego, CA, USA, March 21-25, 2010 [Title of talk: “Stability of amplified DPSK WDM transmission against Raman crosstalk effects”].

26. SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Philadelphia, PA, USA,  August 16-19, 2010 [Title of talk: “Impact of Raman crosstalk on OOK and DPSK massive multichannel transmission systems”].

27. SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Philadelphia, PA, USA,  August 16-19, 2010 [Title of talk (presented by Quan M. Nguyen): “Resolving the Raman-induced cross-frequency shift in soliton collisions”].

28. The 2011 Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, January 6-9, 2011 [Title of invited talk: “Population dynamics models for pulse dynamics in broadband fiber optics communication systems”].  

29. SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Raleigh, NC, USA, April 2-5, 2012 [Title of invited talk: “Analysis and simulations of a perturbed stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation for pulse propagation in broadband optical fiber lines”].  

30. SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Seattle, WA, USA, June 13-16, 2012 [Title of talk: “Crosstalk dynamics of optical solitons in broadband optical waveguide systems”.] 

31. SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Seattle, WA, USA, June 13-16, 2012 [Title of poster (presented by Paul Glenn): “Many-body interaction in fast collisions of NLS solitons”.]    

32. Frontiers in Optics, The 96th OSA Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, USA, October 14-18, 2012 [Title of talk: “Stable energy equalization of solitons in WDM waveguide systems with cubic loss”.]

Other Oral Presentations

1. “Coarsening with a global conservation law: Ostwald ripening and coalescence”, statistical physics working seminar, CNLS/LANL, Los Alamos, NM, February 26 2002.

2. “Effects of perturbations on soliton collisions in optical fibers”, CNLS colloquium, CNLS/LANL, Los Alamos, NM, July 21 2003.

3. “Effects of perturbations on collisions between optical solitons”, dynamical systems seminar, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, October 23 2003.

4. “Inelastic collisions between solitons in optical fibers”, a joint seminar for the School of Optics (CREOL) and the Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, FL, November 7 2003.

5. “Effect of Raman induced cross talk on soliton transmission in fiber optics communication systems”, CNLS seminar, CNLS/LANL, Los Alamos, NM, April 8 2004.

6. “Emergence of lognormal distribution of pulse amplitudes due to Raman cross talk in multi-channel soliton transmission”, nonlinearity, randomness and waves seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, May 5 2004.

7. “Effects of weak dissipative disorder in certain optical fiber and pattern forming systems”, CNLS seminar on statistical problems in nonlinear wave dynamics, CNLS/LANL, Los Alamos, NM, August 12 2004.

8. “Emergence of dissipative disorder due to collisions of optical solitons in the presence of delayed Raman response”, colloquium, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, September 16 2004.

9. “Emergence of dissipative disorder due to collisions of optical solitons in the presence of delayed Raman response”, nonlinearity, randomness and waves seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, October 20 2004.

10. "Effects of dissipative disorder on nonlinear coherent patterns: from soliton collisions in optical fibers to diverging distributions in pattern formation", Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory seminar, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, May 2 2005.

11. "Effects of dissipative disorder on nonlinear coherent patterns: from soliton collisions in optical fibers to diverging distributions in pattern formation", AMO physics seminar, Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, May 10 2005.

12. "Effects of dissipative disorder on nonlinear coherent patterns: from soliton collisions in optical fibers to diverging distributions in pattern formation", Arizona Center for Mathematical Sciences seminar, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, May 13 2005.

13. “Intermittent dynamics in massive multichannel optical fiber communication systems” , nonlinearity, randomness and waves seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, September 20 2006.

14. “Effects of delayed Raman response on dispersion-managed solitons in multichannel optical fiber communication systems” , nonlinearity, randomness and waves seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, October 4 2006.

15. “Intermittent dynamics in massive multichannel optical fiber communication systems”, Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, November 8 2006.

16. “Intermittent dynamics in massive multichannel optical fiber communication systems”, Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, January 30 2007.

17. “Energy exchange in fast soliton collisions as a random cascade model, Part I”, applied mathematics seminar, Department of Mathematics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, November 6 2007.

18. “Energy exchange in fast soliton collisions as a random cascade model, Part II”, applied mathematics seminar, Department of Mathematics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, April 8 2008.

19. “Pulse dynamics in broadband fiber optics communication systems”, Colloquium, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, May 3 2010. 

20. “Pulse dynamics in broadband fiber optics communication systems”, Colloquium, Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, June 7 2010.

21. “Pulse dynamics in broadband fiber optics communication systems”,  photonics research group seminar, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 11 2010.

22. “Pulse dynamics in broadband fiber optics communication systems”, Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, September 22  2010.

23. “Lotka-Volterra models for pulse dynamics in broadband optical waveguide systems”, applied analysis and computation seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, September 30 2011. 

24. “Interplay between bit-pattern randomness and pulse collisions in broadband fiber optics transmission lines”, probability seminar, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, March 12 2012.