Group theoretical methods in physics in memory of Pavel Winternitz

July 26-28, 2021

Program

 

Monday, July 26, 2021


08:45 - 09:00
Opening remarks by Octavian Cornea
09:00 - 09:35
Luc Vinet
(Université de Montréal)
Virtuous Circles -A Tribute to Pavel Winternitz
Abstract
09:40 - 10:15
Decio Levi
(Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
Conditional symmetry preserving discretization of Boussinesq
Abstract
10:15 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 11:05
Libor Snobl
(Czech Technical University in Prague)
Superintegrability in the presence of magnetic fields: the cylindrical case
Abstract
11:10 - 11:30
Charles P. Boyer
(University of New Mexico)
Reminiscences about Pavel Winternitz
Abstract
11:35 - 11:55
Yvan Saint-Aubin
(Université de Montréal)
The structure of the periodic spin chain XXZ seen as a moduleover the affine Temperley-Lieb algebra
Abstract
11:55 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 13:35
Alexander Turbiner
(UNAM)
Classical Mechanics: Closed periodic trajectories and superintegrability
Abstract
13:40 - 14:00
Sarah Post
(University of Hawaii at Manoa)
A joyous time in Montreal
Abstract
14:00 - 14:15
Break
14:15 - 14:35
Natig Atakishiyev (UNAM)
Alexei Zhedanov (Renmin University of China)
An Algebraic Interpretation of the Intertwining Operators Associated with the Discrete Fourier Transform
Abstract
14:40 - 15:00
Jirí Patera (Université de Montréal)
Tania Patera (Retraitée/Retired)
La vie est longue

 

Tuesday, July 27, 2021


09:00 - 09:35
Miguel A. Rodríguez
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Superintegrability: a review of joint work with Pavel Winternitz over the years
Abstract
09:40 - 10:15
Mariano del Olmo
(Universidad de Valladolid)
Superintegrable systems on the Sphere
Abstract
10:15 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 11:05
Piergiulio Tempesta
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Superintegrability, discretization and symmetry
Abstract
11:10 - 11:30
Alexander Orlov
(Shirshov Institute for Oceanology)
Galileo symmetry hierarchy and matrix integrals
Abstract
11:35 - 11:55
Jean-Pierre Gazeau
(Université Paris 7)
Some appealing outcomes of de Sitter, Anti-de-Sitter and Poincaré symmetries
Abstract
11:55 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 13:35
John Harnad
(Concordia University )
Memories of Pavel Winternitz
Abstract
13:40 - 14:00
Niky Kamran
(McGill University)
Pavel Winternitz and symmetries of integrable equations
Abstract
14:00 - 14:15
Break
14:15 - 14:40
Videos, pictures, memories
14:40 - 15:00
Zora Thomova
(SUNY Polytechnic Institute)
Pavel Winternitz-advisor, collaborator and friend
Abstract

 

Wednesday, July 28, 2021


09:00 - 09:35
Ian Marquette
(The University of Queensland)
The Smorodinsky-Winternitz system and the search for higher order symmetries in quantum mechanics
Abstract
09:40 - 10:15
Vladimir Dorodnitsyn
(Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics)
Lie point symmetries and integration of delay ordinary differential equations
Abstract
10:15 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 11:05
Willard Miller, Jr. (University of Minnesota)
Ernest Günther Kalnins (University of Waikato)
Our collaborations with Pavel and work motivated by results of Pavel
Abstract
11:10 - 11:30
Adrian Mauricio Escobar Ruiz
(UNAM, Mexico)
Pavel Winternitz and charming lessons in Superintegrability
Abstract
11:35 - 11:55
Ismet Yurdusen
(Hacettepe University)
Professor Pavel Winternitz and Superintegrability with Spin
Abstract
11:55 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 13:35
Luigi Martina
(Università del Salento)
Under the Spell of the Symmetry
Abstract
13:40 - 14:00
Alfred Michel Grundland
(Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
Symmetries and Riemann Invariants
Abstract
14:00 - 14:35
Véronique Hussin
(Université de Montréal)
Une longue collaboration et amitié avec Pavel Winternitz
Abstract
14:40 - 15:00
Closing remarks