An activity of an i-MATH Intensive Research Programme
Advanced Course on Stability and Instability in Mechanical Systems
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An activity of an i-MATH Intensive Research Programme |
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Programme
Monday, September 15
| 10:30 - 11:15 | REGISTRATION and Welcome Coffee |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Opening |
| 11:30 - 13:30 |
Background in Hamiltonian systems Amadeu Delshams. UPC |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | LUNCH |
| 15:30 - 17:30 | Averaging methods Anatoly Neishtadt. Moscow Space Research Institute and Loughborough University |
Tuesday, September 16
| 9:00 - 11:00 |
KAM theorem Rafael de la Llave. UT at Austin, Texas |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 13:30 | Normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds Chris Jones. University North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Warwick University |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | LUNCH |
| 15:30 - 17:30 | Topological methods Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University |
Wednesday, September 17
| 9:00 - 11:00 |
Shadowing lemmas Ernest Fontich. UB |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 13:30 |
The separatrix map Dmitry Treschev, Moscow State University |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | LUNCH |
| 15:30 - 17:30 | Homoclinic and heteroclinic connections Rafael Ramírez-Ros, UPC |
Thursday, September 18
| 9:00 - 11:00 |
Classical variational methods Massimiliano Berti. Università di Napoli |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 13:30 | Global variational methods Chong-Qing Cheng. University of Nanjing |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | LUNCH |
| FREE AFTERNOON | |
Friday, September 19
| 9:00 - 11:00 |
Applications to Chemistry Turgay Uzer. Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 13:30 | Global behavior in simple conservative systems and applications to
Celestial Mechanics Carles Simó. UB |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | LUNCH |
| INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS | |
Last updated: 09/09/2008