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RatiuFest 2010
in honor of the 60th birthday of Tudor Ratiu

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Schedule; click title for abstract (if available)



Monday


09:15-09:30Announcements


09:30-10:30Speaker: Darryl Holm (Imperial College, London)


10:30-11:00Refreshments


12:00-13:00Speaker: Jair Koiller (Brazil)

Vortices on surfaces

12:00-13:30Lunch


13:30-14:30Speaker: Hernan Cendra (Bahia Blanca, Argentina)

Dirac Theory of Constraints and Dirac Systems

14:30-15:00Refreshments


15:00-16:00Speaker: Johannes Huebschmann

Singularities, Lie-Rinehart algebras, and cotangent bundle reduction

16:00-16:30Refreshments


16:30-17:30Speaker: Richard Montgomery, UC Santa Cruz

Nash blow-up and the compactification of jet bundles

17:30-18:30Poster Previews and Discussions



Tuesday


08:45-09:00Announcements


09:00-10:00Speaker: P.S. Krishnaprasad, Maryland

Area Rules and Vibratory Gyroscopes

10:00-11:00Poster Viewing and Refreshments


11:00-12:00Speaker: Alan Weinstein (Berkeley)

Symplectic reduction and symplectic morphisms

12:00-13:30Lunch


13:30-14:30Speaker: Luc Haine (Louvain-la-Neuve)


14:30-15:00Refreshments


15:00-16:00Speaker: Tony Bloch

Geometric Aspects of Integrable Systems

16:00-16:30Refreshments


16:30-17:30Speaker: Miguel Rodriguez Olmos (Manchester)

Cotangent bundle reduction with singularities

17:30-18:30Discussions



Wednesday


08:45-09:00Announcements


09:00-10:00Speaker: Mark Gotay, PIMS, Vancouver

Quantization via Symplectization and Star-products

10:00-10:30Refreshments


10:30-11:30Speaker: Francois Gay-Balmaz, CNRS, Paris

Geometric analysis on the universal Teichmuller space: geodesics, peakons, and imaging

11:30-12:00Break


12:00-13:00Speaker: Anton Alekseev

Poisson-Lie groups and the Flaschka-Ratiu conjecture

13:00-18:00Lunch and Afternoon Excursion


19:00-22:30Evening dinner



Thursday


09:15-09:30Announcements


09:30-10:30Speaker: Franco Magri

The Central Equaition of Mechanics from Lagrange to Hamel and Poincaré

10:30-11:00Refreshments


11:00-12:00Speaker: Frances Kirwan

Symplectic implosion

12:00-13:30Lunch


13:30-14:30Speaker: Bert Kostant

Maxwell Equations and Representation theory

14:30-15:00Refreshments


15:00-16:00Speaker: Peter Olver (Minnesota)

Geometric flows and Poisson structures

16:00-16:30Refreshments


16:30-17:30Speaker: Hans Duistermaat

The amazingly rich structure of the solutions of the first Painlevé equation, the very simple differential equation

17:30-18:30Discussions



Friday


08:45-09:00Announcements


09:00-10:00Speaker: Geneviève Raugel

Genericity of Kupka-Smale and Morse-Smale properties for scalar parabolic equations

10:00-10:30Refreshments


10:30-11:30Speaker:

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11:30-12:00break


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13:00-14:30Lunch


14:30-15:30Speaker:

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15:30-16:00Refreshments


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17:00-17:30Wrap up