Mini-Course on Singularities, Hamiltonian and gradient flows

May 5-9, 2008

Program

 

Tuesday, May 6, 2008


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:30
Richard Montgomery
(UC Santa Cruz)
Singularities of two-plane fields, Legendrian curves, and the friendly Monster - Lecture 1. Distributions, prolongation, and the universal Goursat distribution
Abstract
15:30 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room 6245

Session - 2008 Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room : 1140

16:00 - 17:00
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
(Collège de France)
Dynamics and Geometry of interval exchange maps and translation surfaces
Abstract

 

Wednesday, May 7, 2008


Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Richard Montgomery
(UC Santa Cruz)
Singularities of two-plane fields, Legendrian curves, and the friendly Monster - Lecture 2. Touching the Monster with singular plane curves
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
(Collège de France)
Dynamics and Geometry of interval exchange maps and translation surfaces - Interval exchange maps
Abstract

 

Thursday, May 8, 2008


Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Richard Montgomery
(UC Santa Cruz)
Singularities of two-plane fields, Legendrian curves, and the friendly Monster - Lecture 3. Prolongation = blow-up?
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
(Collège de France)
Dynamics and Geometry of interval exchange maps and translation surfaces - Translation surfaces
Abstract

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 15:00
Laurent Stolovitch
(Université Paul Sabatier)
Formes normales de structures de Poisson - I
Abstract
15:00 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245

 

Friday, May 9, 2008


Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Laurent Stolovitch
(Université Paul Sabatier)
Formes normales de structures de Poisson - II
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
(Collège de France)
Dynamics and Geometry of interval exchange maps and translation surfaces - Moduli space and the Teichmüller flow
Abstract

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 15:00
Laurent Stolovitch
(Université Paul Sabatier)
Formes normales de structures de Poisson - III
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 6245