Department of Mathematics

Solitons Home Page

Some brief soliton movies:

A list of papers on experimental studies of solitons in water, kindly supplied by Jerry Bona.

This section needs refreshing, if you are organising a meeting in this area, please send me a link.

Topological Solitons: A conference to celebrate the 60th birthday of Professor N. Manton, Cambridge, 19-22 Sept, 2012.

An account of the discovery of the Soliton by Scott Russell in 1834 and of our successful attempt to recreate it in 1995
The experimental apparatus
The soliton
BBC "Local Heroes" programme page on the soliton
See NATURE, V376, No. 6539, 3rd August 1995, p373 for another picture and account of the recreated soliton, also Optics and Photonic News, October 1995, Vol. 6 No 10, pg 9.
Dick Hazelwood's brief History of express canal boats
Robert McWilliam's catalogue for the Scott Russell exhibition shown at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in London in 2008.

Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science.
Jarmo Hietarinta's Dromion web page.
The Falaco Soliton.
Nonlinear Dynamics Distance Education Project, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Sao Paulo, Brasil.
Solitons and Soliton Collisions, Tver State University
Algety - Optical soliton company.
Soliton-Lab art gallery (Kanehisa Takesaki, Kyoto) base target="_top"> Solion Laboratory (Takasaki Laboratory of Integrable Systems).
A good recent source (unfortunately not web based) for optical soliton technology is Scientific American, Dec 2001, pp20-21.
Discrete Self-trapping Equation, for those interested in discrete nonlinear Schrödinger type equations.
downloadable version of ed. A.P. Fordy and J.C. Wood, Harmonic maps and integrable systems
Soliton machine at the Snibston Discovery Park
Bell Labs researchers set new soliton transmission record,
5 lectures on soliton equations by Edward Frenkel.
Light Bullet Home Page, research into 3-dimensional optical envelope solitons at Simon-Fraser University, Canada.
Solitons Dynamics Group, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Cornell page on Intrinsic Localized Modes (Discrete Breathers).
Sergej Flach's Discrete Breather Homepage
NHK Soliton homepage (in Japan, "Soliton" is the name of a popular TV show for the younger generation...)
> Mini-obituaries and links concerning some soliton pioneers, Martin Kruskal, Alwyn Scott, and Robin Bullough.

Conference organisers, I'm aware this section is out of date - please send me a link if you wish your proceedings to be listed here.

International Conference: "Nonlinear Waves: Theory and Experiment", 15 - 18 January 2008 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
International conference: Nonlinear waves --- theory and applications, Beijing, June 9-12, 2008
Workshop Nonlinear Physics. Theory and Experiment.V, Gallipoli (Lecce), Italy, June 12 to 21, 2008.
the XVIIth International Colloquium on Integrable Systems and Quantum symmetries (ISQS-17), June 19-21, 2008, Prague, Czech Republic. http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/solitons/

Chris Eilbeck/Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh/ J.C.Eilbeck@hw.ac.uk