Organiers:
Dong Eui Chang, Professor, University of Waterloo.
Darryl Holm, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Imperial College London.
George W. Patrick, Professor, University of Saskatchewan (principal organizer).
Tudor Ratiu, Director of the Bernoulli Center, EPFL

Registration open in 2012

Accommodation in Toronto

Toronto

Jerry Marsden, a pre-eminent applied mathematician, passed away September 21, 2010. He was the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering, Control and Dynamical Systems and Applied and Computational Mathematics, at the California Institute of Technology. His honors include: Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, von Neumann Lecture and Prize (SIAM), Max Planck Research Award for Mathematics and Informatics, the Norbert Wiener Prize (AMS), and the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award (ASME). In addition, he was the first director of the Fields Institute.

Overview of the Program

Phase 1
The program will focus the topics on areas in which Jerry had significant contributions, or extend his lines of research, or, more generally, focus on a subject that we know would have been of interest to Jerry. The following themes will be targeted:

Symplectic, Poisson, and Dirac geometry, reduction.
Bifurcation theory.
Geometric fluid dynamics and elasticity.
Averaged hydrodynamics and Lagrangian coherent states.
Space mission design.
Geometric and structure preserving integration.
Control and nonholonomic mechanics.
Field theory and relativity.

Phase 2
In the third week of the program, participants of the symposia during the first two weeks will meet in informal collaborations, and there will be a summer school on Mechanics and Geometry in Canada (MAGIC).

Phase 3
The Program will wrap up with a conference: Geometry, symmetry, dynamics, and control: The legacy of Jerry Marsden. The conference will run over 5 days, with Wednesday free for informal interaction.