Workshop: Chaos and Ergodicity of Realistic Hamiltonian Systems

December 11-14, 2007

Program

 

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

09:30 - 10:00
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissant (6245)


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Carles Simo
(Universitat de Barcelona)
Towards a global study of area preserving maps. Applications to unfoldings
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Robert D. Skeel
(Purdue University)
Role of ergodicity in molecular dynamics
Abstract

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:30
Aernout van Enter
(Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
On the road to the ergodic limit while heating a system of plane rotators. Gibbsianness and non-Gibbsianness as the presence or absence of effective Hamiltonians
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Nawaf Bou-Rabee
(California Institute of Technology)
Stochastic variational integrators. Theory, applications and perspectives
Abstract

17:00
Welcoming reception
Room 6245

 

Wednesday, December 12, 2007


Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee
Room 6245
10:00 - 11:00
Wayne Hayes
(Université de Montréal)
Are numerical trajectories of MD simulations shadowed by exact solutions?
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Paul F. Tupper
(McGill University)
The relation between shadowing and weak approximation in molecular dynamics
Abstract

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:30
Antonio Giorgilli
(Università degli Studi di Milano)
Fermi - Pasta - Ulam phenomenon for generic initial data
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Igor Mezic
(UC Santa Barbara)
Physical Structure, Graph Structure and Uncertainty in Complex Systems
Abstract

 

Thursday, December 13, 2007


Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee
Room 6245
10:00 - 11:00
Stephan De Bièvre
(Univ. des Sciences et Technologies de Lille)
Motion through an oscillator chain: diffusion and linear response
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30
Michael Shub
(University of Toronto)
Geodesics in the conditon (number) metric
Abstract

12:30
Lunch break and free afternoon

 

Friday, December 14, 2007


Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee
Room 6245
10:00 - 12:00
Impromptu Talks

Session - CRM-ISM Colloquium
Meeting room : 6214

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
Room 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Michael Shub
(University of Toronto)
Smale's 17th Problem
Abstract

17:00
Wine-and-cheese reception
Room 6245