​Canonical Scattering Workshop


​Chancellors Hotel, Manchester
​2nd and 3rd November 2017
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together world-leading researchers, from both academia and industry, in order to review recent advances and remaining challenges in wave scattering theory. This will be an opportunity  to exchange and stimulate new ideas, to enhance the communication and interaction between the industry and academia, and to initiate new collaborations internationally or within the UK.

Directions to the venue can be found here.

Confirmed 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 abrstracts 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.