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Invited Speaker Beverly H. West Professor Cornell University Ithaca, New York |
Email: |
bwest@math.cornell.edu |
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Paper: |
A New Look at the Airy Equation with Fences and Funnels |
Talk: |
Differential Equations: Quantitative Information from Qualitative
Analysis
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Abstract: |
Airy's equation x'' + xt = 0 has solutions that traditionally
are found just as infinite series, giving no good information on the
behavior of solutions as t approaches infinity, or minus infinity.
Guided by PICTURES of the solutions, we can (rigorously) answer these
questions, WITHOUT any analytic solving.
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