DAY on DIFFRACTION'96 International Seminar

June 4 - June 6, 1996

St.Petersburg, Russia

Location:

June 4 - June 5                           June 6

Mathematical Inst. RAS (down town)        Inst. on Physics, SPb Univ.
                                          (Univ. Campus at Petrodvoretz)
Fontanka quay 27                          1 Ulianovskaja Ave.
St.Petersburg 191011                      Petrodvoretz 198904
+7-812-310-4385 (voice)                   +7-812-428 7579 (voice)

DAYS on DIFFRACTION are usually held in the end of May - beginning of June by the St.Petersburg Branch of the Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Science and the University of St.Petersburg.

DAYS on DIFFRACTION are held since the beginning of 70-es. First these seminars summed up the results of an annual scientific work of Leningrad Diffraction School founded by academicians V. A. Fock and V. I. Smirnov, and every time they ended in a friendly picnic party. Year by year scientists from other cities began to participate in the Workshop , and DAYS on DIFFRACTION became an Annual All Union Scientific Seminar. Since 1991 it is an International Venue. Recent {\it DD}s were reported by E.V.Jull [IEEE AP Magazine, vol.34, no.6, 1992; The Radioscientist, vol.4, no.1, 1993] and B.Bridge [Nondestr. Testing Evaluation, vol.11, 369--372, 1994].

This year DAY on DIFFRACTION'96 will open on June 4, 1996 in Saint Petersburg. We are pleased to invite scientists from all over the world who are interested in mathematical problems of Diffraction Theory.

At this home-page please find abstracts of talks to be presented at the Seminar. We are thankful to all authors who had submitted camera-ready manuscripts.

We hope that our meeting will be fruitful and lead to progress in Diffraction Theory.

WITH OUR BEST REGARDS
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Professor V.M.Babich (co-chairman)

babich@pdmi.ras.ru

Professor V.S.Buldyrev (co-chairman)
bvs@onti.niif.spb.su

Prof. A.P.Kiselev
Dr. I.V.Andronov (secretary)
Dr. V.E.Grikurov
Dr. M.A.Ljalinov

DAY on DIFFRACTION'97 First Announcement
PROGRAMME
ABSTRACTS OF CONTRIBUTIONS AVAILABLE AT THE MOMENT OF LAST UPDATE
(in LaTeX format)

M.E.Abramyan, S.L.Edelstein MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF THE SLOWLY VARYING WAVEGUIDES WITH PENETRABLE BOUNDARIES
Ivan V. Andronov ON APPLICABILITY OF POINT MODELS OF NON-HOMOGENEITIES IN FLUID LOADED THIN ELASTIC PLATES
M.A.Antonets, L.V.Ponomareva INITIAL-BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM FOR MAXWELL EQUATION WITH LEONTOVICH BOUNDARY CONDITION
M.A.Antonets, L.V.Scherstneva ALGORITHM OF NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF AN PULSE PROPAGATION IN NONUNIFORM MEDIUM
A. M. Akhmeteli FAST ELECTROMAGNETIC HEATING OF A THIN CONDUCTING CYLINDER BY A DIFFRACTING GAUSSIAN BEAM
V.M.Babich, V.V.Lucyanov PROPAGATION OF WAVES IN A WEAKLY NONHOMOGENEOUS PIEZOELECTRIC LAYER
M.Balabane, V.Tirel A HYBRID ALGORITHM FOR HELMHOLTZ EQUATION
V.S. Buldyrev, A.V. Sokolov INVESTIGATION OF NONSTATIONARY WAVEGUIDE MODES GENERATED BY MOVING SOURCE IN A VICINITY OF CRITICAL DOPPLER FREQUENCIES
F.Cuvelier GENERELIZED KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATION OUTSIDE A UNION OF CONVEX SETS
Dr S. J. Chapman, Mr J. M. H. Lawry, Miss V. H. Saward APPLICATIONS OF COMPLEX RAY THEORY TO PROBLEMS IN DIFFRACTION
S.Yu. Dobrokhotov, O.L. Tolstova WAVES IN A LAYER OF A HEAVY LIQUID ON A WEAKLY UNEVEN BOTTOM, GENERATED BY A LOCALIZED SOURCE
A.G.Bestugin, V.G.Farafonov A NEW SOLUTION FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING BY A PERFECTLY CONDUCTING BODY OF REVOLUTION
J.W.Hovenier TESTING THE EXISTENCE OF SCATTERING MATRICES
Alexey P. Kiselev Dilatation at Shear Wave in Smoothly Inhomogeneous Elastic Medium
I.G.Kondrat'ev, A.V.Kudrin, T.M.Zaboronkova WAVE PROPAGATION ALONG NONUNIFORM ANISOTROPIC OPEN WAVEGUIDES
D.P. Kouzov, G.L. Nikitin, O.B. Agranova, V.G. Yakovleva TRANSFORMATION MATRIX OF VIBRATIONAL WAVES ON A NODAL JUNCTION OF PLATES
A.G.Kyurkchan, S.A.Manenkov WAVE SCATTERING ON A BODY IMMERSED IN A HOMOGENEOUS SEMISPACE
A.G.Kyurkchan and A.I.Kleev THE THEORY OF PLANE WAVE DIFFRACTION BY GRATINGS
Ilya V. Kamotski, Sergey A. Nazarov WOOD'S ANOMALIES AND CONSTRUCTION OF RALEIGH-BLOCH SURFACE WAVES
Yu.A.Lavrov and V.D.Lukyanov ON NATURAL FREQUENCIES OF THE RECTANGULAR ACOUSTIC RESONATOR WITH PIECEWISE-HOMOGENEOUS ELASTIC WALL
Vyacheslav A. Lazarev SOUND GENERATION UNDER DRY FRICTION CAUSED BY OSCILLATING LOAD
M.A.Lyalinov DIFFRACTION OF SCALAR WAVES IN THE DOMAIN WITH THIN MATERIAL COATINGS
G. N. Makrakis ASYMPTOTIC STUDY OF THE ELASTIC BOTTOM EFFECTS IN UNDERWATER SOUND PROPAGATION
S.G.Kiselev, A.N.Kuznetsov, V.M.Markushevitch THEORY OF ELASTIC VIBRATIONS IN ISOTROPIC INHOMOGENEOUS LAYERED MEDIA
A. N. Norris INTERACTION OF STRUCTURAL AND ACOUSTICAL WAVES AT A WEDGE-SHAPED JUNCTION OF TWO FLUID LOADED PLATES
S. M. Novoselova A SYSTEM OF LINKED RESONATORS IN COCHLEA
D.Pogarieloff, N.Durante LARGE SIZE COMPUTATIONS AND PARALLEL COMPUTING FOR EMC AN ANTENNA
Alexei V. Popov and Ning Yan Zhu MALYUZHINETS' PARABOLIC EQUATION IN SHORT WAVE DIFFRACTION PROBLEMS
Z.M. Rogoff and R.H. Tew THE EXCITATION AND PROPAGATION OF THE `ANALOGOUS HEAD WAVES' DUE TO A TOTALLY INTERNALLY REFLECTED PLANE-WAVE INCIDENT UPON A CONVEX FLUID-SOLID BOUNDARY
V.A. Smirnov, L.A. Nesterov, N.N. Rosanov, N.V. Vyssotina INTERACTION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL SPATIAL OPTICAL SOLITONS
B.J. Smith and R.H. Tew CURVATURE EFFECTS ON HIGH-FREQUENCY `LEAKY' WAVE EXCITATION AND PROPAGATION
V.P.Smyshlyaev and J.R.Willis EFFECTIVE RELATIONS FOR NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF CRACKED SOLIDS
P.E.Tovstik ASYMPTOTICALLY DOUBLE EIGENVALUES IN THE PROBLEMS OF SHELLS DYNAMICS AND BUCKLING
Vladimir N. Troyan 3-D GEOPHYSICAL DIFFRACTION TOMOGRAPHY
N.Uzunoglu, G.Stamatakos MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF LIGHT SCATTERING BY DEFORMED AND AGGREGATED ERYTHROCYTES
Irina N. Yakushina CONNECTION FORMULAE FOR A SYSTEM OF TWO SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS WITH POTENTIAL-CURVE-CROSSING POINT
N.S.Zabavnikova, Yu.A.Surkov ON COMPUTATION OF FIELDS OF LOW-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE WAVES
V.V.Zalipaev ECHELETTE-DIFFRACTION GRATING IN THE SHORT-WAVE APPROXIMATION
Ning Yan Zhu and Friedrich M. Landstorfer NUMERICAL STUDY OF WAVE DIFFRACTION ON SCALAR AND TENSOR IMPEDANCE WEDGES WITH THE METHOD OF PARABOLIC EQUATION