SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

WORKSHOP ON GEOMETRY, DYNAMICS, AND MECHANICS IN HONOUR OF THE 60th BIRTHDAY OF J.E. MARSDEN
August 7- 10, 2002

Held at the Fields Institute, 222 College Street, 2nd Floor, room 230

Schedule of Talks
Wednesday August 7	Session chair: S. Shkoller, University of California, Davis
8:15-8:45	REGISTRATION and CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:45-9:00	Welcoming Remarks: P. Newton, University of Southern California
9:00-9:50	A. Marsden, Stanford University Shape optimization for trailing edge noise reduction
10:00-10:25	T. Hughes, Stanford University Multiscale methods in turbulence
10:30-11:00	MORNING BREAK
11:00-11:50	A. Chorin, UC Berkeley Prediction and renormalization
11:50-1:30	LUNCH BREAK
1:30-1:55	D. Holm, Los Alamos National Lab Introduction to Averaged, Regularized, Navier-Stokes Equations for Large Eddy Simulations of Turbulence
2:00-2:50	S. Antman, University of Maryland Analytic consequences of incompressibility
3:00-3:30	AFTERNOON BREAK
3:30-4:20	P. Holmes, Princeton University Low dimensional models of turbulent plane Couette flow
4:25-5:15	K. Kirchgaessner, Universitat Stuttgart Dispersive dynamics in Euler systems and stability of 2D gravity solitary waves
5:20-5:45	E. Knobloch, UC Berkeley Nearly inviscid Faraday waves
6:00-8:00	Wine & Cheese Reception Sponsored by Springer-Verlag
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Thursday August 8	Session chair: P. Newton, University of Southern California
9:00-10:00	CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
10:00-10:25	M.Oritz, California Institute of Technology Asynchronous variational integrators
10:30-11:00	MORNING BREAK
11:00-11:50	L. Sirovich, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine On the dynamics of cortical populations
11:50-1:30	LUNCH BREAK
1:30-2:20	M. Lo, California Institute of Technology The development of the interplanetry superhighway
2:30-2:55	R. Montgomery, UC Santa Cruz Variational methods for the Newtonian N-body problem
2:55-3:30	AFTERNOON BREAK
3:30-4:20	M. Dellnitz, University of Paderborn Set oriented numerical methods in space mission design
4:30-4:55	M. Golubitsky, University of Houston Pattern formation on the visual cortex
5:00-5:25	J. Scheurle, Technische Universitat Munchen On normal form computations
No Dinner Plans Scheduled
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Friday August 9	Session chair: T. Ratiu, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
8:30-9:00	CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00-9:50	A. Newell, University of Arizona and University of Warwick Global description of patterns far from onset: Convection in a large elliptical container
9:55-10:45	R. Brockett, Harvard University The Weyl group as a symmetry group for subriemannian geodesics
10:45-11:15	MORNING BREAK
11:15-12:05	P. Krishnaprasad, University of Maryland Interactions on Lie groups
12:05-1:30	LUNCH BREAK
1:30-2:20	R. Murray, California Institute of Technology Nonlinear control of Lagrangian systems
2:25-3:15	J. Sniatycki, University of Calgary Reduction of symmetries in dynamics
3:15-3:30	AFTERNOON BREAK
3:30-4:20	M. Levi, Penn State University New observations on parametric resonance zones and geometry of symplectic matrices
4:25-5:15	P. Garcia Perez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Poincare-Cartan forms in Vakonomic mechanics: generalization to field theory
6:00 reception 7:00 dinner	Fields Institute Banquet held at The Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks St., just east of Spadina St.    Dinner chair: A. Weinstein, University of California, Berkeley
	Banquet talk 1: W. Shadwick Banquet talk 2: A. Tromba
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Saturday August 10	Session chair: A. Bloch, University of Michigan
8:30-9:00	CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00-9:50	A. Weinstein, UC Berkeley The geometry of momentum
9:55-10:45	J. Duistermaat, Utrecht University Second order contact of minimal surfaces
10:45-11:15	MORNING BREAK
11:15-11:40	A. Fischer, UC Santa Cruz Conformal volume collapse of 3-manifolds and the reduced Einstein flow
11:45-12:10	R. Littlejohn, UC Berkeley Gauge theory of small vibrations in polyatomic molecules
12:10-1:30	LUNCH BREAK
1:30-2:20	B. Kostant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Convexity theorems and the order closure of nilpotent orbits
2:30-3:20	J. Isenberg, University of Oregon Gluing wormholes onto your spacetime
3:30-4:00	AFTERNOON BREAK
4:00-4:25	M. Gotay, University of Hawaii Obstructions to quantizing semisimple basic algebras
4:30	Conclusion of workshop
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