INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR

		      DAY on DIFFRACTION'96

			Saint Petersburg
			June 4 - 6, 1996


June 4, 1996 : Mathimatical Institute, 27 Fontanka quay, St.Petersburg

 9-00 - 9-20 Registration
 9-20 - 9-20 Openning

Waveguides / Chairperson: V.S.Buldyrev

 9-30 - 10-00 I.G.Kondrat'ev, A.V.Kudrin, T.M.Zaboronkova (Russia)
              WAVE PROPAGATION ALONG NONUNIFORM ANISOTROPIC OPEN WAVEGUIDES
10-00 - 10-30 G.N.Makrakis (Greece)
              ASYMPTOTIC STUDY OF THE ELASTIC BOTTOM EFFECTS IN UNDERWATER
              SOUND PROPAGATION
10-30 - 11-00 <<<<<< Coffee Break >>>>>>

Elasticity / Chairperson: V.S.Buldyrev

11-00 - 11-30 A.P.Kiselev (Russia)
              DILATATION AT SHEAR WAVE IN SMOOTHLY INHOMOGENEOUS ELASTIC MEDIUM
11-30 - 12-00 S.G.Kiselev, A.N.Kuznetsov, V.M.Markushevitch (Russia)
              THEORY OF ELASTIC VIBRATIONS IN ISOTROPIC INHOMOGENEOUS LAYERED 
              MEDIA
12-00 - 12-30 N.S.Zabavnikova, Yu.A.Surkov (Russia)
              ON COMPUTATION OF FIELDS OF LOW-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE WAVES

<<<<<< Lunch >>>>>>

Plates \& Shells / Chairperson: A.N.Norris

14-00 - 14-30 D.P.Kouzov, G.L.Nikitin, O.B.Agranova, V.G.Yakovleva (Russia)
              TRANSFORMATION MATRIX OF VIBRATIONAL WAVES ON A NODAL JUNCTION 
              OF PLATES
14-30 - 15-00 I.V.Andronov (Russia)
              ON APLICABILITY OF POINT MODELS OF NON-HOMOGENEITIES IN FLUID 
              LOADED THIN ELASTIC PLATES
15-00 - 15-30 Yu.A.Lavrov, V.D.Lukyanov (Russia)
              ON NATURAL FREQUENCIES OF THE RECTANGULAR ACOUSTIC RESONATOR 
              WITH PIECEWISE-HOMOGENEOUS ELASTIC WALL
15-30 - 16-00 <<<<<< Coffee Break >>>>>>
16-00 - 16-30 A.N.Norris (USA)
              INTERACTION OF STRUCTURAL AND ACOUSTICAL WAVES AT A WEDGE-SHAPED 
              JUNCTION OF TWO FLUID LOADED PLATES
16-30 - 17-00 P.E.Tovstik (Russia)
              ASYMPTOTICALLY DOUBLE EIGENVALUES IN THE PROBLEMS OF SHELLS 
              DYNAMICS AND BUCKLING
17-00 - 17-30 S.M.Novoselova (Russia)
              A SYSTEM OF LINKED RESONATORS IN COCHLEA
17-30 - 18-00 V.N.Troyan (Russia)
              3-D GEOPHYSICAL DIFFRACTION TOMOGRAPHY

June 5, 1996 : Mathimatical Institute, 27 Fontanka quay, St.Petersburg

Interfaces & Boundary Effects / Chairperson: A.P.Kiselev

 9-00 -  9-30 M.A.Antonets, L.V.Ponomareva (Russia)
              INITIAL-BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM FOR MAXWELL EQUATION WITH 
              LEONTOVICH BOUNDARY CONDITION
 9-30 - 10-00 S.Yu.Dobrokhotov, O.L.Tolstova (Russia)
              WAVES IN A LAYER OF A HEAVY LIQUID ON A WEAKLY UNEVEN BOTTOM, 
              GENERATED BY A LOCALIZED SOURCE
10-00 - 10-30 I.V.Kamotski, S.A.Nazarov (Russia)
              WOOD'S ANOMALIES AND CONSTRUCTION OF RALEIGH-BLOCH SURFACE WAVES
10-30 - 11-00 <<<<<< Coffee Break >>>>>>
11-00 - 11-30 A.V.Popov, N.Y.Zhu (Russia, Germany)
              MALYUZHINETS' PARABOLIC EQUATION IN SHORT WAVE DIFFRACTION 
              PROBLEMS
11-30 - 12-00 V.M.Babich, V.V.Lucyanov (Russia)
              THE UMOV ENERGETIC EQUATION AND BERRY PHASE IN PROCESS OF 
              PROPAGATION OF WAVES ALONG A WEAKLY NONHOMOGENEOUS PIEZOELECTRIC 
              LAYER
12-00 - 12-30 A.M.Akhmeteli (Russia)
              FAST ELECTROMAGNETIC HEATING OF A THIN CONDUCTING CYLINDER BY A 
              DIFFRACTING GAUSSIAN BEAM

<<<<<< Lunch >>>>>>

Scattering / Chairperson: V.M.Babich

14-00 - 14-30 A.G.Bestugin, V.G.Farafonov (Russia)
              A NEW SOLUTION FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING BY A PERFECTLY
              CONDUCTING BODY OF REVOLUTION
14-30 - 15-00 J.W.Hovenier (The Netherlands)
              TESTING THE EXISTENCE OF SCATTERING MATRICES
15-00 - 15-30 A.G.Kyurkchan, S.A.Manenkov (Russia)
              WAVE SCATTERING ON A BODY IMMERSED IN A HOMOGENEOUS SEMISPACE
15-30 - 16-00 <<<<<< Coffee Break >>>>>>
16-00 - 16-30 N.Uzunoglu, G.Stamatakos (Greece)
              MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF LIGHT SCATTERING BY DEFORMED AND 
              AGGREGATED ERYTHROCYTES
16-30 - 17-00 A.G.Kyurkchan, A.I.Kleev (Russia)
              THE THEORY OF PLANE WAVE DIFFRACTION BY GRATINGS
17-00 - 17-30 V.V.Zalipaev (Russia)
              ECHELETTE-DIFFRACTION GRATING IN THE SHORT-WAVE APPROXIMATION
17-30 - 18-00 I.N.Yakushina (Russia)
              CONNECTION FORMULAE FOR A SYSTEM OF TWO SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS
              WITH POTENTIAL-CURVE-CROSSING POINT

June 6, 1996 : Faculty of Physics, Univ.of St.Petersburg, Petrodvorets

Asimptotical, Numerical & Other Methods / Chairperson: V.M.Babich

10-00 - 10-30 M.A.Antonets, L.V.Scherstneva (Russia)
              ALGORITHM OF NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF AN PULSE PROPAGATION IN 
              NONUNIFORM MEDIUM
10-30 - 11-00 M.Balabane, V.Tirel (France)
              A HYBRID ALGORITHM FOR HELMHOLTZ EQUATION
11-00 - 11-30 F.Cuvelier (France)
              GENERELIZED KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATION OUTSIDE A UNION OF CONVEX 
              SETS
11-30 - 12-00 <<<<<< Coffee Break >>>>>>
12-00 - 12-30 S.J.Chapman, J.M.H.Lawry, V.H.Saward (UK)
              APPLICATIONS OF COMPLEX RAY THEORY TO PROBLEMS IN DIFFRACTION
12-30 - 13-00 D.Pogarieloff, N.Durante (France)
              LARGE SIZE COMPUTATIONS AND PARALLEL COMPUTING FOR EMC AN ANTENNA

<<<<<< Lunch >>>>>>

Nonlinear problems, etc. / Chairperson: V.E.Grikurov

14-00 - 14-30 V.A.Lazarev (Russia)
              SOUND GENERATION UNDER DRY FRICTION CAUSED BY OSCILLATING LOAD
14-30 - 15-00 V.A.Smirnov, L.A.Nesterov, N.N.Rosanov, N.V.Vyssotina (Russia)
              INTERACTION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL SPATIAL OPTICAL SOLITONS
15-00 - 15-30 V.P.Smyshlyaev, J.R.Willis (UK)
              EFFECTIVE RELATIONS FOR NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF CRACKED SOLIDS
16-00 - 16-30 <<<<<< Coffee Break >>>>>>
16-30 - 17-00 Z.M.Rogoff, R.H.Tew (UK)
              THE EXCITIATION AND PROPAGATION OF THE `ANALOGOUS HEAD WAVES' 
              DUE TO A TOTALLY INTERNALLY REFLECTED PLANE-WAVE INCIDENT UPON 
              A CONVEX FLUID-SOLID BOUNDARY
17-00 - 17-30 B.J.Smith, R.H.Tew (UK)
              CURVATURE EFFECTS ON HIGH-FREQUENCY `LEAKY' WAVE EXCITATION AND
              PROPAGATION

<<<<<< Picnic >>>>>>