Conference on Geometry, Symmetry, Dynamics, and Control: The legacy of Jerry Marsden.

July 23 - 27, 2012, The Fields Institute

Schedule

Monday, July 23rd, 2012
09:00 to 10:10	Control of a Model of DNA Division Via Parametric Resonance Wang Sang Koon, California Institute of Technology
10:10 to 10:40	Coffee Break
10:40 to 11:50	Is swimming a limit cycle? Henry (Jacobs Caltech; Imperial College London)
11:50 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 14:40	Vortex dynamics of classical fluids in higher dimensions Banavara Shashikanth, New Mexico State University
14:40 to 15:20	Geometry and the analysis of geometric numerical algorithms George W. Patrick, University of Saskatchewan
15:20 to 15:50	Tea Break
15:50 to 16:30	Anholonomic frames in nonholonomic mechanics Tom Mestdag, University of Ghent
16:30 to 17:10	No Title Specified Daniel Offin, Queen's University

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
09:00 to 10:10	Reflections on the paper, "Groups of diffeomorphisms and the motion of an incompressible fluid" David Ebin, Stony Brook University
10:10 to 10:40	Coffee Break
10:40 to 11:50	Momentum Maps and Classical Fields Mark Gotay, University of British Columbia
11:50 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 14:40	Control of mechanical systems Dong Eui Chang, University of Waterloo
14:40 to 15:20	A gentle introduction to Microswimming: geometry, physics, analysis Jair Koiller, Getulio Vargas Foundation
15:20 to 15:50	Tea Break
15:50 to 16:30	Discrete Hamiltonian Variational Integrators and Discrete Hamilton--Jacobi Theory Melvin Leok, University of California at San Diego
16:30 to 17:10	Geodesic equations on contactomorphism groups Stephen Preston, University of Colorado Boulder

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
09:00 to 10:10	Stochastic Hamiltonian Systems Juan-Pablo Ortega, University of St. Gallen
10:10 to 10:40	Coffee Break
10:40 to 11:50	Fluid-Structure Interactions: Geometric and Numerical Aspects Joris Vankerschaver, University of California at San Diego
11:50 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 15:00	2012 PIMS Marsden Memorial Lecturer - Richard Montgomery Mark Gotay, University of British Columbia
15:00 to 15:30	Tea Break
15:30 to 17:30	Reflections on Jerry Marsden: Life & Work - Talks and Panel Session

Thursday, July 26th, 2012
09:00 to 10:10	The geometry of integrable and gradient flows and dissipation Anthony Bloch, University of Michigan
10:40 to 11:50	Higher order covariant Euler-Poincaré Marco Castrillón López, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
14:00 to 14:40	Algebra and reduction of the three vortex problem Antonio Hernández-Garduño, UAM
14:40 to 15:20	No Title Specified Scott Kelly, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
15:20 to 15:50	Tea Break
15:50 to 16:30	From the Geometry of Extreme Value Distributions to 'Laws of Mechanics' in Financial Markets William F. Shadwick, Omega Analysis Limited
16:30 to 17:10	A Model for the Retina Including Blood Flow and Deformation Andrea Dziubek, SUNY, Edmond Rusjan, Farmingdale State College SUNY

Friday, July 27th, 2012
09:00 to 10:10	Dirac Structures, Variational Principles and Reduction in Mechanics --- Toward Understanding Interconnection Structures in Physical Systems Hiroaki Yoshimura, Waseda University
10:10 to 10:40	Coffee Break
10:40 to 11:50	The Legacy of Jerry Marsden's Early Career Work in Riemannian Geometry and General Relativity Arthur Fischer, UCSC
11:50 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 14:40	Reduction of Lagrangian submanifolds and Tulczyjew's triple Elisa Guzmán (Universidad de La Laguna)
14:40 to 15:20	Symplectic groupoids and discrete constrained Lagrangian mechanics Ari Stern, University of California at San Diego
15:20 to 15:50	Tea Break

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