Colorado Nonlinear Days

April 25, 2026
Morning Session (Osborne Center, Room B216)

• 10:00 am –  10:30 am ---   Sergey Dyachenko (U. Buffalo) - The Stokes waves on ideal fluid: modulational instability and wave breaking VIDEO
• 10:30 am –  11:00 am ---  Anastassiya Semenova (RIT) - Two-Crested Stokes Waves and Their Stability
• 11:00 am –  11:20 am ---    Coffee Break
• 11:20 am –  11:40 am ---   Chris Mayo (KU) - Well-posedness of the KdV-KS equation on a finite interval VIDEO
• 11:40 am –  12:00 pm ---   Shivani Agarwal (KU) - The “good” Boussinesq equation on the half-line with Robin boundary conditions VIDEO
• 12:00 pm –  12:30 pm ---   Mark Hoefer (CU Boulder) - Modulation Theory and Dispersive Shock Waves in a Regularized Boussinesq Equation VIDEO
• 12:30 pm –  2:00 pm ---     Lunch (The Lodge)

Afternoon Session (Osborne Center, Room B216)

• 2:00 pm –  2:20 pm ---   Jerry Wang (CU Boulder) - Modulation theory of Y-wave Kadomtsev-Petviashvili II Solitons VIDEO
• 2:20 pm –  2:40 pm ---  Tori Royall (UCCS) - The Collapsing Solutions of the 1D Quintic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation VIDEO
• 2:40 pm –  3:00 pm ---  Troy Johnson (UCCS) - Chiral solitary waves in a nonlinear topological insulator model VIDEO
• 3:00 pm –  3:30 pm ---   Coffee Break
• 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm ---  Sean Nixon (CU Boulder) - Spiral Waves in Water VIDEO
• 4:00 pm –  4:30 pm ---   Ezio Iacocca (UCCS) - Non-equilibrium thermal fields for magnetization dynamics VIDEO
• 4:30 am –  5:00 pm ---   Robin Msiska (UCSD) - Starting Strong: Optimization Techniques for Physical Reservoir Computing VIDEO

April 26, 2026
Morning Session (Osborne Center, Room B216)

• 10:00 am –  10:30 am ---   Nick Ossi (U. Buffalo) - Integrable perturbation theory for dark solitons
• 10:30 am –  11:00 am ---  Justin Cole (UCCS) - Spectral localizers in periodically driven systems
• 11:00 am –  11:20 am ---    Coffee Break
• 11:20 am –  11:50 am ---   Joseph Noernberg (UCCS) - Solution Dynamics of Subcritical NLS Systems
• 11:50 am –  12:10 pm ---   Selina Akter (UCCS) - Rational Solutions of the 2D Toda Lattice Equation
• 12:10 pm –  12:30 pm ---   Denis Silantyev (UCCS) - Self-similar collapsing solutions in the generalized Constantin-Lax-Majda Equation with Dissipation

The events will be held in the Osborne Center (OSCE, Room B216) on the UCCS Main Campus

Directions:

• Take exit 146 from I-25 and head EAST on Garden of the Gods (GoG) Rd.
• Drive east on GoG past Nevada Ave (GoG Rd becomes Austin Bluffs Pkwy) and go uphill.
• Once at the top of the hill, follow Austin Bluffs Pkwy past the first light (Clyde Way), then make a left onto UCCS at the 2nd light.
• Park in any lot (parking is FREE on weekends) as close to the Library (Clock Tower) as possible.
• Take the stairs up toward the plaza, keeping the Library on your right. Osborne Center is on the left.
• Registration and morning sessions are in Osborne B216 and B217.

For your convenience, below are a few recommended hotels, for those that choose to spend the night in Colorado Springs.

• Hyatt Place (2 miles to UCCS, I-25 & Garden of the Gods Rd)
• Days Inn (2 miles to UCCS, I-25 & Garden of the Gods Rd)
• La Quinta Inn (2 miles to UCCS, I-25 & Garden of the Gods Rd)
• Colorado Springs Mariott (3 miles to UCCS, I-25 & Rockrimmon)
• Embassy Suites Colorado Springs (4 miles to UCCS, I-25 & Woodmen)
• Garden of the Gods Club & Resort (6 miles to UCCS, near Garden of the Gods Park)

The closest location to campus with several dining options, is the University Village Colorado shopping center west of N. Nevada Ave. and North of Austin Bluffs Pkwy./Garden of the Gods road (right across the street from UCCS). Options include:

• Amore Italian Grille
• Awi Sushi
• BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse
• Bonefish Grill
• Chipotle
• Costco
• The Cowboy Star Restaurant & Butcher Shop
• crumbl cookies
• Hacienda Colorado Mountain Mex
• Il Vicino Wood Oven Pizza
• Kilwins 
• Keva Juice
• Noodles & Company
• Nothing Bundt Cakes
• Panera Bread
• Rocket Fizz Soda Pop & Candy
• Smashburger
• Starbucks
• Tokyo Joe's
• Trader Joe's
• Urban Egg, a Daytime Eatery
• Ike's Sandwiches

UCCS

• Sarbarish Chakravarty
• Justin Cole
• Denis Silantyev
• Radu Cascaval
• Ezio Iacocca
• Troy Johnson
• Joseph Noernberg
• Selina Akter
• Sean Redinger
• Tori Royall
• Laurel Powell
• Thomas Stroup

University of Colorado Boulder

• Mark Hoefer
• Sean Nixon
• Jerry Wang
• Yujia Xie

SUNY Buffalo

• Sergey Dyachenko
• Nicholas Ossi

Rochester Institute of Technology

• Anastassiya Semenova

University of Kansas

• Shivani Agarwal
• Chris Mayo

Los Alamos National Laboratory

• Robin Msiska

Organizers:

Sarbarish Chakravarty, Justin Cole, and Denis Silantyev

A special thanks to Emanuelita Martinez and Ashley Beushausen for their help. 

* Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting, but we request that people register their participation in advance, by contacting the organizers 

** Financial support from: Office of the Provost, UCCS Graduate School, College of LAS & Department of Mathematics