Focus Program on Geometry, Mechanics and Dynamics - Geometry and Mechanics

July 9 - 13, 2012, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute

Schedule

Monday, July 9th, 2012
11:00 to 12:00	Collisionless kinetic theory of rolling molecules Cesare Tronci, University of Surrey Location:
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 15:00	Summer School Alex Castro, BlackRock - UK Location:
15:00 to 15:30	Tea Break
15:30 to 16:30	Geometric phases in partially controlled mechanical systems Alejandro Cabrera, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Location:
16:30 to 17:30	Backward error analysis for symplectic Runge–Kutta Methods on Hilbert spaces Marcel Oliver, Jacobs University Location:

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
11:00 to 12:00	On the central congurations of the Nbody problem Jaume Llibre, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Location:
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 15:00	Summer School Alex Castro, BlackRock - UK Location:
15:00 to 15:30	Tea Break
15:30 to 16:30	Dual pairs in fluid dynamics François Gay-Balmaz, Ecole Normale Supérieure Location:
16:30 to 17:30	Damping-Induced Self Recovery Phenomenon in Mechanical Systems with an Unactuated Cyclic Variable Dong Eui Chang, University of Waterloo Location:

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
11:00 to 12:00	Colloquium Debra Lewis, UCSC Location:
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 15:00	Summer School Henry Jacobs Location:
15:00 to 15:30	Tea Break
15:30 to 16:00	Quantum Splines David Meier (Imperial College London) Location:
16:10 to 17:00	Momentum Maps, Image Analysis & Solitons Darryl D. Holm, Imperial College London Location:

Thursday, July 12th, 2012
11:45 to 13:00	Geometry of Image Registration: Diffeomorphism group and Momentum maps Martins Bruveris, Imperial College London Location:
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 15:00	Variational integrators George W. Patrick, University of Saskatchewan Location:
15:00 to 15:30	Tea Break
15:30 to 16:30	Geometric phases in partially controlled mechanical systems Alejandro Cabrera, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Location:
16:30 to 17:30	Cardiac Electrophysiology Model on the moving heart Felipe Arrate Location:

Friday, July 13th, 2012
11:00 to 12:00	On violins with rubber strings, or contact chaos caused by the perfect friction contact of elastic rods Vakhtang Putkaradze, University of Alberta Location:
14:00 to 15:30	Geometry of Image Registration: Diffeomorphism group and Momentum maps Martins Bruveris, Imperial College London Location:
15:30 to 16:00	Tea Break
16:00 to 17:30	Geometric Generalisations of the Shake and Rattle methods Olivier Verdier, NTNU Location:

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