AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 31, 2009 01:40:04

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS steve.weintraub@lehigh.edu

Saturday October 24, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Integrable and Non-Integrable Dynamics, I
Room 209, Thomas Building
Organizers:
Boris Khesin, University of Toronto
Mark Levi, Pennsylvania State University
Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University tabachni@math.psu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Dynamics of gradient flows, Hamiltonian flows and thermostats.
  Anthony M Bloch*, University of Michigan
  (1052-34-89)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The operator Schwarzian derivative.
  Emma Previato*, Boston University
  (1052-35-281)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Stability of Relative Equilibria of Nonholonomic Integrators with Semidirect Symmetry.
  Cameron Lynch, North Carolina State University
  Dmitry Zenkov*, North Carolina State University
  (1052-70-220)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Geometry of isomonodromic deformations.
  Jacques Hurtubise*, McGill University
  (1052-14-332)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Contact complete integrability.
  Boris Khesin*, University of Toronto
  Serge Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University
  (1052-58-313)

Saturday October 24, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Integrable and Non-Integrable Dynamics, II
Room 209, Thomas Building
Organizers:
Boris Khesin, University of Toronto
Mark Levi, Pennsylvania State University
Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University tabachni@math.psu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Singular Reduction of Symmetries.
  Jedrzej Sniatycki*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary
  (1052-53-240)
- 3:30 p.m.
  General Lie algebra extensions and extended Euler equations.
  Keiichi Kikuchi*, Komae, Tokyo
  (1052-53-63)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Near-linear dynamics in KdV with periodic boundary conditions.
  V. Zharnitsky*, University of Illinois
  (1052-35-286)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Nonholonomic Hamilton--Jacobi Equation and Integrability.
  Tomoki Ohsawa*, University of Michigan
  Anthony Michael Bloch, University of Michigan
  (1052-70-311)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Bike tracks, symplectic group and forced pendula.
  Mark Levi*, Penn State
  Sergei Tabachnikov, Penn State
  Robert Foote, Wabash College
  (1052-37-316)

Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Integrable and Non-Integrable Dynamics, III
Room 209, Thomas Building
Organizers:
Boris Khesin, University of Toronto
Mark Levi, Pennsylvania State University
Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University tabachni@math.psu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Dependence on initial data for solutions of the Euler equations.
  Gerard Misiolek*, University of Notre Dame
  (1052-58-295)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On Liouville integrability of h-projectively equivalent Kahler metrics.
  Peter Topalov*, Northeastern University
  Kazuyoshi Kiyohara, Okayama University
  (1052-37-263)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Experimental and theoretical results on the Koch Snowflake billiard and its associated flat surface.
  Michel L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
  Robert G. Niemeyer*, University of California, Riverside
  (1052-37-38)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Tire tracks geometry and Menzin's conjecture.
  Mark Levi, Penn State
  Sergei Tabachnikov*, Penn State
  (1052-53-324)

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