WORKSHOP ON THE GEOMETRY OF INFINITE-DIMENSIONAL LIE GROUPS

November 2-6, 2001


FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2

09:00        Coffee

09:30        P. Olver "Moving frames for pseudogroups"

10:30        Coffee break

11:00         H. Omori "The blurred group generated
                                    by star-exponential functions of quadratic forms
"

 

2:00          R. Wendt "Integration on coadjoint orbits of loop groups"

3:00          Coffee break

3 :30         P. Slodowy "Simple elliptic singularities, loop groups and bundles over elliptic curves"

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3

09:30        P. Winternitz "Noninvariant solutions of differential equations with infinite dimensional symmetry groups"

10:30        Coffee break

11:00        O. Bogoyavlenskij "Infinite-dimensional Lie groups of symmetries of equations of physical significance"

 

2:00          J. Hurtubise "Loop groupoids and bundles over an elliptic curve".

3:00          Coffee break

3:30          M. Kapranov "An elgebro-geometric model for the loop space and vertex algebras"

4:30          C. Roger "Some results about the Lie algebra of unimodular vector fields,
                                     in relation with the deformation quantization problem
"

5:30          Reception

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4

09:30        E. Meinrenken "The Duflo homomomorphism for subalgebras"

10:30        Coffee break

11:00        L. Jeffrey "Intersection pairings on singular quotients"

 

2:00          F. Lalonde "Automorphisms of symplectic rational 4-manifolds
                                       and the topology of the space of embedded symplectic balls
"

3:00          Coffee break

3:30          I. Zakharevich "On integrability of bi-Poisson structures space of embedded symplectic balls"

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5

09:30        M. Pinsonneault "Symplectomorphisms of $M=(S^2\times S^2)$ blown-up at one point"

10:30        Coffee break

11:00        G. Misiolek "Nonlinear evolution equations on the Bott-Virasoro group"

2:00          A. Pianzola "Applications of torsors to the theory of infinite dimensional Lie algebras"

3:00          Coffee break

3:30          J. Leslie "On A Diffeological Group Realization of Certain Generalized Kac-Moody Lie Algebras"

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

09:30        J. Harnad "Multi-Hamiltonian Structures for Classical r-Matrix systems"

10:30        Coffee break

11:00       T. Robart "The invertibility condition for Backlund transformations"

 

2:00          T. Ratiu "Averaged hydrodynamics and a new diffeomorphism group"

3:00          Coffee break

3:30          V. Ovsienko "Differential operators on tensor densities"