Workshop on Singularities, Hamiltonian and gradient flows

May 12-16, 2008

Program
 

Monday, May 12, 2008
08:15 - 09:00
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissants (6245)


Meeting room : 6214

08:45 - 09:00
Welcoming addresses
09:00 - 09:50
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
(Collège de France)
Affine interval maps
10:00 - 10:50
Hidekazu Ito
(Kanazawa University)
Non-resonant phenomena in resonant integrable systems
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:20
Bernold Fiedler
(Freie Universität Berlin)
Design of planar global attractors of Sturm type
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 14:50
Andrey Sarychev
(Università degli Studi di Firenze)
Controllability and optimal control of multiparticle system: geometric approach
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
15:30 - 16:20
Alexander Shnirelman
(Concordia University)
TBA

 

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 09:50
JianSheng Geng
(McMaster University)
Invariant Tori of Full Dimension for a Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
Abstract
10:00 - 10:50
Laurent Stolovitch
(Université Paul Sabatier)
Normal form of analytic perturbations of quasihomogeneous vector fields: rigidity problems
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Lunch break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:20
Hakan Eliasson
(Université Paris VII)
The Quasi-periodic Schrödinger Equation and Dynamical Localization
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 14:50
Freddy Dumortier
(Universiteit Hasselt)
Canard cycles with different fast layers
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
15:30 - 16:20
Vadim Kaloshin
(University of Maryland)
Hausdorff dimension of oscillatory motions
(Suitable for a general audience)
Abstract

 

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
08:00 - 08:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

08:30 - 09:20
Susanna Terracini
(Università di Milano Bicocca)
Singularities and collisions of generalized solutions to the N-body problem
Abstract
09:30 - 10:20
Clarence Eugene Wayne
(Boston University)
Counterpropagating Two-soliton Solutions for the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Model
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:00 - 11:50
Markus Keel
(University of Minnesota)
A Monotonicity Formula Approach for Higher Dimensional Hyperbolic PDE
Abstract
11:50 - 12:50
Christiane Rousseau
(Université de Montréal)
The space of modules of unfoldings of germs of generic diffeomorphisms with a parabolic point
Abstract

12:30
Lunch Break and Free Afternoon

 

Thursday, May 15, 2008
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 09:50
Michael Bialy
(Tel Aviv University)
On periodic solutions for reductions of Benney chain
Abstract
10:00 - 10:50
Dario Bambusi
(Università degli studi di Milano)
Birkhoff normal form and almost global existenco for Hamiltonian PDEs
Abstract
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:30 - 12:20
Vadim Kaloshin
(University of Maryland)
Large dimensional nearly-integrable Hamiltonian systems exhibiting Arnold diffusion
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 14:50
Reinhard Schäfke
(Université Louis Pasteur)
On some problems of construction of analytic functions
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
15:30 - 16:20
Vassili Gelfreich
(University of Warwick)
Drift of slow variables in slow-fast Hamiltonian systems
Abstract

 

Friday, May 16, 2008
08:00 - 08:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

08:30 - 09:20
Kuo-Chang Chen
(National Tsing Hua University)
Existence and minimization property of some satellite orbits for the restricted n-body problem
Abstract
09:30 - 10:20
Denis G. Gaydashev
(Université de Montréal)
Renormalization and Universality for Hamiltonian Flows
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:00 - 11:50
Peter De Maesschalck
(Universiteit Hasselt)
Gevrey and analytic local models for families of vector fields
Abstract
12:00 - 12:50
Walter Craig
(McMaster University)
Bounds on Kolmogorov Spectra for the Navier-Stokes Equations
Abstract

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