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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
11:00-12:00Speaker:
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13:00-14:30Lunch
14:30-15:30Speaker:
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15:30-16:00Refreshments
16:00-17:00Speaker:
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17:00-17:30Wrap up