Program of the workshop “Around scattering by obstacles and billiards”
March 30, Friday
9.00 – 9.40 Sergei Tabachnikov,
"Periodic billiard trajectories in the regular pentagon".
9.45 – 10.25 Leonid Bunimovich,
"Principles to design chaotic (hyperbolic) billiards".
10.25-11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 11.40 Alexei Iantchenko, "Inverse
problems for scattering resonances".
11.45 – 12.25 Andreas Kirsch, “The Factorization Method for inverse
scattering problems”.
Lunch
14.00 – 14.40 Boris Gutkin,
"Interior-exterior duality in quantum billiards".
14.45 – 15.25 Evgeny Lakshtanov,
“Interior transmission eigenvalues and branching
billiards”.
15.25-16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 16.40 Gregory Galperin, "A
Billiard Ball Bouncing in Gravitational Field".
16.45 – 17.25 Victor Ivrii, "100 years
of Weyl law".
March
31, Saturday
9.00 – 9.40 Dimitri Yafaev,
"Scattering by non-compact obstacles".
9.45 – 10.25 Alexander Plakhov, "Invisibility in billiards and
duality of interior and exterior billiards".
10.25-11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 11.40 Konstantin Khanin, “ ’Exotic’ billiards and circle maps with breaks”.
11.45 – 12.25 Brian Sleeman,
"The Inverse Obstacle Scattering Problem".
Lunch
14.00 – 14.40 Maciej Wojtkowski, “Design of Hyperbolic Billiards”
14.45 – 15.25 Michael Bialy, "Conjugate points
for convex billiards".
15.25-16.00 Coffee
break
Section 1
16.00 – 16.40 Roman Schubert, “Open problems in wave
propagation in billiards”.
16.45 – 17.25 Dmitri Vassiliev,
"Wave propagation in first order hyperbolic systems".
17.30 – 18.10 Lucas Chesnel, "Time harmonic Maxwell equations with sign
changing coefficients".
Section 2
16.00 – 16.40 Vera Roshchina, "Fractal bodies invisible in 3 directions".
16.45 – 17.25 José Pedro Gaivão, "Chaos
in the square billiard with a modified reflection law".
17.30 – 18.10 Eugene Gutkin, "Recurrence and ergodicity
for the billiard on noncompact polygons".
A pedestrian trip in the city
with the finishing cup of coffee and glass of porto
wine in the Barrocas Park cafe.
April 1, Sunday
Section 1
9.00 – 9.40 Armin Lechleiter, "Sampling
Methods for Time-Domain Inverse Scattering".
9.45 – 10.25 Nuno Martins, "Numerical
methods for inverse problems using fundamental solutions techniques".
10.25-11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 11.40 Euan Spence
, "Hybrid asymptotic-numerical methods for scattering
problems".
11.45 – 12.25 Yuri Safarov, "Branching
billiards and associated Fourier integral operators".
Section
2
9.00 – 9.40 Roberto Markarian,
"Structure and evolution of strange attractors in non-elastic triangular
billiards".
9.45 – 10.25 Tatiana Yarmola, " Perfect retroreflectors in tubular
domains".
10.25-11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 11.40 Gianluigi Del Magno, "Ergodicity of chaotic billiards".
11.45 – 12.25 Alexey Glutsyuk,
"On quadrilateral orbits in planar billiards".
Lunch
14.00 Trip to Costa Nova.