Seminar series
Date
Thu, 09 Jun 2016
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
L1
Speaker
Javier Buldu, Dave Hewett
Dave Hewett: Canonical solutions in wave scattering
By a "canonical solution" I have in mind a closed-form exact solution of the scalar wave equation in a simple geometry, for example the exterior of a circular cylinder, or the exterior of an infinite wedge. In this talk I hope to convince you that the study of such problems is (a) interesting; (b) important; and (c) a rich source of (difficult) open problems involving eigenfunction expansions, special functions, the asymptotic evaluation of integrals, and matched asymptotic expansions.