Waves 2007 conference This special volume contains a selection of papers, based on talks presented at the Eighth International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Waves (Waves 2007), which took place at the University of Reading, UK, organised jointly with INRIA, from 23rd to 27th July 2007.
Wave phenomena are hugely important in many areas of science and engineering and at a whole variety of length scales, from the atomic to terrestrial and beyond. Applications include acoustic and electromagnetic scattering, seismic wave motions, the coupling of wind and ocean waves, refraction and imaging with photonic crystals, probing atomic structure with attosecond pulses, the design of low-loss optical wave guides, and travelling waves in the occurrence of epidemics. This conference is one of the main venues where significant advances in the analysis and computational modeling of wave phenomena and exciting new applications are presented, and this meeting was the eighth in a sequence which started in Strasbourg in 1991.
Conference themes included forward and inverse scattering, nonlinear wave phenomena, fast computational techniques, numerical analysis, absorbing layers and approximate boundary conditions, analytic and semi-analytic techniques for wave problems, domain decomposition, guided waves and random media.