AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:12

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Hamiltonian Systems, I
Room 1101, Sandford Fleming Building
Organizers:
Lisa Jeffrey, University of Toronto jeffrey@math.toronto.edu
Velimir Jurdjevic, University of Toronto jurdj@math.toronto.edu
Boris Khesin, University of Toronto khesin@math.toronto.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Symplectic Structures and Hamiltonian Dynamics on Cross Products of Lie Groups.
  Anthony M Bloch*, University of Michigan
  Peter E Crouch, Arizona State University
  Jerrold E Marsden, California Institute of Technology
  Tudor S Ratiu, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
  (957-70-149)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Reconstruction phase formulas.
  Anthony D Blaom*, Vienna, Virginia
  (957-70-71)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Mechanisms of chaos in Hamiltonian systems: hyperbolicity and astigmatism.
  Leonid Bunimovich*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (957-37-269)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Lagrangian Hydrodynamics.
  Steve Shkoller*, University of California, Davis
  (957-35-210)

Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Hamiltonian Systems, II
Room 1101, Sandford Fleming Building
Organizers:
Lisa Jeffrey, University of Toronto jeffrey@math.toronto.edu
Velimir Jurdjevic, University of Toronto jurdj@math.toronto.edu
Boris Khesin, University of Toronto khesin@math.toronto.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Bending flows of polygonal linkages in $E^3$, $H^3$, and $S^3$.
  Thomas I Treloar*, University of Maryland
  (957-53-245)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Convex functions on symmetric spaces and the geometric invariant theory of configuration spaces of weighted points of flag manifolds.
  John James Millson*, University of Maryland
  (957-53-212)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Euler angles and time-optimal factorizations in SO(3).
  Dirk Mittenhuber*, TU Darmstadt
  (957-49-244)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Connections along curves, parallel translations, and the nonsmooth maximum principle of optimal control theory.
  Hector J.. Sussmann*, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
  (957-49-171)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Hamiltonian Seifert Conjecture.
  Viktor L Ginzburg*, UC Santa Cruz
  (957-37-137)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Hamiltonian Systems, III
Room 1101, Sandford Fleming Building
Organizers:
Lisa Jeffrey, University of Toronto jeffrey@math.toronto.edu
Velimir Jurdjevic, University of Toronto jurdj@math.toronto.edu
Boris Khesin, University of Toronto khesin@math.toronto.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Persistence of extremal relative equilibria in symmetric hamiltonian systems.
  Eugene Lerman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  James Montaldi, Institut Non Lineaire de Nice
  Tadashi Tokieda*, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
  (957-37-253)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Exact solutions to plasma equilibrium equations.
  Oleg I Bogoyavlenskij*, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
  (957-76-294)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Transversal Relative Equilibria of a Hamiltonian System with Symmetry.
  George W Patrick*, University of Saskatchewan
  Mark Roberts, University of Warwick
  (957-70-238)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Gauge conservation laws in nonholonomic systems.
  Larry Bates*, University of Calgary
  (957-58-327)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Almost Poisson Spaces in Mechanics.
  Jedrzej Sniatycki*, University of Calgary
  (957-70-144)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Hamiltonian Systems, IV
Room 1101, Sandford Fleming Building
Organizers:
Lisa Jeffrey, University of Toronto jeffrey@math.toronto.edu
Velimir Jurdjevic, University of Toronto jurdj@math.toronto.edu
Boris Khesin, University of Toronto khesin@math.toronto.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  A unified geometrical approach to the problem of integrability of Hamiltonian systems by separation of variables.
  Roman Smirnov*, University of Waterloo
  Raymond G McLenaghan, University of Waterloo
  Aaron T Bruce, University of Waterloo
  (957-58-24)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Periodic orbits of a particle in a magnetic field.
  Ely Kerman*, Fields Institute
  (957-37-135)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Discussion

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