SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

THE FIELDS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES 20th ANNIVERSARY YEAR July 2012 FOCUS PROGRAM ON GEOMETRY, MECHANICS AND DYNAMICS the Legacy of Jerry Marsden at The Fields Institute, Toronto 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

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.

"Remembering Jerry Marsden", an obituary
Obituary: Jerry Marsden

Overview of the Program

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.

The Focus Program will be generally be scheduled as follows:

July 3-13, 2012

Weeks of July 02, 2012 and July 09, 2012:
Geometric and structure preserving integration.

Weeks of July 09, 2012
Geometry and mechanics

July 16-27, 2012

Week of July 16, 2012:
Geometry and mechanics

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).

Weeks of July 16, 2012 and July 23, 2012
Control and nonholonomic mechanics
Geometric fluid dynamics and elasticity; Field theory and relativity.

July 23-27, 2012
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.

July 25
2012 PIMS Marsden Memorial Lecturer - Richard Montgomery

Registered Participants as May 23, 2012

TO BE CONFIRME	Full Name	University/Affiliation	Arrival Date	Departure Date
	Arrate, Felipe	Basque Center for Applied Mathematics	02-Jul-12	28-Jul-12
*	Baillieul, John	Boston University
	Balseiro, Paula	Universidade Federal Fluminense	03-Jul-12	31-Jul-12
*	Banavar, Ravi	Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay
	Bloch, Anthony	University of Michigan
*	Bou-Rabee, Nawaf	Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey
*	Brockett, Roger	Harvard University
	Bruveris, Martins	Imperial College London	03-Jul-12	28-Jul-12
	Buono, Pietro-Luciano	University of Ontario Institute of Technology	03-Jul-12	13-Jul-12
	Buono, Pietro-Luciano	University of Ontario Institute of Technology	23-Jul-12	27-Jul-12
	Bursztyn, Henrique	Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada	07-Jul-12	21-Jul-12
	Cabrera, Alejandro	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	03-Jul-12	14-Jul-12
	Castrillón López, Marco	Universad Complutense de Madrid	23-Jul-12	27-Jul-12
	Castro, Alex	Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro	03-Jul-12	20-Jul-12
	Chang, Dong Eui	University of Waterloo	03-Jul-12	27-Jul-12
	Chhabra, Robin	University of Toronto	03-Jul-12	27-Jul-12
	Colombo, Leonardo	Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas	06-Jul-12	28-Jul-12
	de León, Manuel	CSIC	22-Jul-12	28-Jul-12
*	Dellnitz, Michael	Unversität Paderborn
	Depetri, Gabriela	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	02-Jul-12	28-Jul-12
	Devenish, Paul	University of Toronto at Mississauga	02-Jul-12	21-Jul-12
	Dullin, Holger	University of Sydney	02-Jul-12	27-Jul-12
	Duma, Damaris	Wilfrid Laurier University	15-Jul-12	20-Jul-12
	Faulkner, Nicholas	UOIT	16-Jul-12	20-Jul-12
	Fischer, Arthur	University of California, Santa Cruz	20-Jul-12	30-Jul-12
	Gay-Balmaz, François	Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris	07-Jul-12	29-Jul-12
*	Golubitsky, Martin	Ohio State University
*	Grygoryeva, Lyudmyla
	Halevy, Itamar	no affiliation	03-Jul-12	31-Jul-12
	Hall, James	University of California, San Diego	15-Jul-12	28-Jul-12
	Hernández-Garduño, Antonio	UAM-I	21-Jul-12	29-Jul-12
	Hinz, Denis	McGill University	03-Jul-12	27-Jul-12
	Holm, Darryl D.	Imperial College London	03-Jul-12	27-Jul-12
	Jacobs, Henry	California Institute of Technology	03-Jul-12	27-Jul-12
	Kim, Tae-Yeon	McGill University	02-Jul-12	14-Jul-12
*	Kobilarov, Marin	California Institute of Technology
	Koiller, Jair	Fundação Getulio Vargas	13-Jul-12	27-Jul-12
*	Koon, Wang Sang	California Institute of Technology
	Kovacic, Mitchell	University of Ontario Institute of Technology	16-Jul-12	20-Jul-12
	Kumari, Aradhana	City University of New York Graduate Center	01-Jul-12	30-Jul-12
*	Leok, Melvin	California Institute of Technology
	Lessig, Christian	California Institute of Technology	23-Jul-12	27-Jul-12
	Lessig, Christian	California Institute of Technology	03-Jul-12	07-Jul-12
*	Lewis, Andrew	Queen's University
*	Lewis, Debra	University of California, Santa Cruz
*	Llibre Saló, Jaume	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
*	Lo, Martin	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Lowry, Robert	SUNY SCCC	02-Jul-12	28-Jul-12
*	Marrero González, Juan Carlos	Universidad de La Laguna
	Martin de Diego, David	ICMAT	06-Jul-12	14-Jul-12
	Mestdag, Tom	Ghent University	22-Jul-12	28-Jul-12
	Montgomery, Richard	University of California, Santa Cruz	23-Jul-12	28-Jul-12
*	Murray, Richard M.	California Institute of Technology
	Offin, Daniel	Queens University	03-Jul-12	08-Jul-12
	Offin, Daniel	Queens University	22-Jul-12	27-Jul-12
	Ohsawa, Tomoki	University of California, San Diego	13-Jul-12	29-Jul-12
	Oliver, Marcel	Jacobs University	02-Jul-12	13-Jul-12
	Onozaki, Kaori	Waseda University	03-Jul-12	31-Jul-12
	Ortega, Juan-Pablo	Université de Franche-Comté	23-Jul-12	31-Jul-12
	Ostrovskyi, Vitalii	University of Southern California	15-Jul-12	27-Jul-12
	Padrón, Edith	University of La Laguna	06-Jul-12	14-Jul-12
*	Patrick, George	University of Saskatchewan
*	Perlmutter, Mathew	Massey University
	Rajaratnam, Krishan	University of Waterloo	16-Jul-12	20-Jul-12
	Ratiu, Tudor S.	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	03-Jul-12	27-Jul-12
	Rodrigues, Adriano Regis	Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco	15-Jul-12	28-Jul-12
*	Rodríguez-Olmos, Miguel	Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña
	Ross, Shane	Virginia Tech	03-Jul-12	28-Jul-12
	Sanchez, Miguel	Universidad de Granada	21-Jul-12	29-Jul-12
	Santoprete, Manuele	Wilfrid Laurier University	03-Jul-12	27-Jul-12
*	Schmah, Tanya	University of Toronto
	Seguin, Brian	McGill University	03-Jul-12	27-Jul-12
	Shadwick, William F.	Omega Analysis Limited	22-Jul-12	29-Jul-12
*	Sniatycki, Jedrzej	University of Calgary
	Souza, Eder	Universidade Federal de Sergipe	15-Jul-12	28-Jul-12
	Stern, Ari	University of California, San Diego	22-Jul-12	28-Jul-12
	Stoica, Cristina	Wilfrid Laurier University	03-Jul-12	01-Jul-37
	Szeto, Kwok Yip	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	10-Jul-12	18-Jul-12
	Vaquero, Miguel	Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas	06-Jul-12	28-Jul-12
	Verdier, Olivier	NTNU	03-Jul-12	16-Jul-12
*	Yoshimura, Hiroaki	Waseda University
*	Zenkov, Dmitry	North Carolina State University
*	Zub, Stanislav	National Science Center Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology

 

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