Conference on Integrable Systems Theory and its Applications
In honor of Hermann Flaschka's 60th Birthday
The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
March 11–13, 2005
Schedule of Talks:
- Friday, 11 March 2005
- 9:00–10:00 AM. Victor Guillemin, MIT. Convexity Theorems in Symplectic Geometry.
- 10:30–11:30 AM. Percy Deift, Courant. Universality for Mathematical and Physical Systems.
- 2:30–3:30 PM. Craig Tracy, UC Davis. The Airy and Pearcey Processes.
- 4:00–5:00 PM. Jerry Marsden, CalTech. Discrete Mechanics and Optimal Control.
- Saturday, 12 March 2005
- 9:00–10:00 AM. Alan Weinstein, UC Berkeley. Hopfish Algebras.
- 10:30–11:30 AM. Tudor Ratiu, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Infinite Dimensional Poisson Geometry and Integrability.
- 2:30–3:30 PM. Alexander Its, IUPUI. Quasi-linear Stokes Phenomenon for Painlevé Transcendents. The Riemann-Hilbert Approach.
- 4:00–5:00 PM. Sergey Novikov, University of Maryland. Topological Phenomena in the Sine-Gordon Theory.
- Saturday evening, 12 March 2005: Party
- Sunday, 13 March 2005
- 9:00–10:00 AM. Luc Haine, University of Louvain. Heat Kernel Expansions and the Bispectral Problem.
- 10:30–11:30 AM. Franco Magri, Università di Milano. The Separable Systems of Jacobi and Kowalevski from the Viewpoint of Bihamiltonian Geometry.
Registration:
Invited participants are eligible to receive a reimbursement of the discounted
airfare (advanced purchase, economy class or coach fare). A block of rooms
has been reserved at the Marriott University Park hotel. Please do not make
your reservations directly through the hotel. Please contact Sandy Braun (see below)
with your arrival/departure dates, as she will make hotel reservations for you. If you
are not a U.S. citizen, it is very important that you obtain an appropriate
visa (WT, WB, B1 or B2) in order to receive reimbursement from the University
of Arizona.
Contact Person:
Sandy Braun (braun@math.arizona.edu). Telephone: 520-621-4726.
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