​Canonical Scattering Workshop


​Chancellors Hotel, Manchester
​2nd and 3rd November 2017
This workshop brought together world-leading researchers, from both academia and industry, in order to review recent advances and remaining challenges in wave scattering theory. 

 Speakers

  • Andrey V. Shanin (Moscow State University)
  • I. David Abrahams (University of Cambridge)
  • Yuri A. Antipov (Louisiana State University)
  • Nigel Peake (University of Cambridge)
  • Dave Hewett (University College London)
  • Matteo Albani (Universita di Siena)
  • Guido Lombardi (Politecnico de Torino)
  • William J. Parnell (University of Manchester)
  • Anastasia Kisil (University of Cambridge)
  • C. John Chapman (Keele University)
  • Raphael C. Assier (University of Manchester)
  • Mikhail A. Lyalinov (St Petersburg State University)
  • Valery P. Smyshlyaev (University College London)
  • Bruno Lombard (LMA, Marseille)
programme
Canonical Scattering Workshop: Thursday 02/11
10.00 - 10.55 Registration and Coffee
10.55 - 11.00 Greetings
11.00 - 11.30 John Chapman Topological aspects of leading-edge diffraction theory
11.30 - 12.00 Will Parnell The role of matched asymptotics in Helmholtz resonator and Split Ring Resonator problems
12.00 - 12.30 Dave Hewett Tangent ray diffraction and the Pekeris caret function/Fock integral
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.30 Nigel Peake Trailing edge noise
14.30 - 15.00 Raphael Assier A surprising observation in the quarter-plane problem
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 - 16.00 Bruno Lombard Time-domain numerical methods for the scattering of waves
16.00 - 16.30 Yuri Antipov Nonuniform motion of cracks and thin rigid bodies in elastic media
16.30 - 17.00 Andrey Shanin Transient phenomena in layered waveguides and the analytical continuation of dispersion diagrams
17.00 - 19.30 Free time, discussions and beers
19.30 - late Dinner
Canonical Scattering Workshop: Friday 03/11
09.30 - 10.00 Anastasia Kisil Approximate matrix Wiener-Hopf factorisation and applications to problems in acoustics
10.00 - 10.30 Guido Lombardi Network representations of electromagnetic scattering problems using the generalized Wiener-Hopf technique
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 11.30 Dave Abrahams Improved convergence of modal expansions for waveguide problems
11.30 - 12.00 Valery Smyshlyaev Boundary inflection problem: a canonical problem in high-frequency scattering
12.00 - 12.30 Mikhail Lyalinov Acoustic scattering by a narrow semi-infinite pyramid with different face impedances
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.30 Matteo Albani Scattering by semi-infinite periodic structures, using Wiener-Hopf in the Discrete Z transformed domain
14.30 - 15.00 TBA TBA
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 - 16.45 Open discussion about problems to be addressed and funding opportunities
16.45 - 17.00 Closing words
A book of abstracts will be available soon

Organiser

Raphael Assier
The organiser would like to acknowledge the financial support of UK EPSRC via the grant ​EP/N013719/1.