Schedule:
The workshop will have three or four scheduled talks each morning. In addition Colloquium Lectures will he held on the afternoons of Tuesday 25 May and Tuesday 1 June in the Theatre of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PQ. Provisional Schedules for Week 1 and Week 2 are listed below.
Local participants are advised to confrim with the ICMS office before attending as the timetable is subject to change.
Colloquium Lectures
| Tuesday 25 May | |
| 2.00 - 3.10 pm | Henry McKean (Courant Institute, New York) A different slant on the KdV hierarchy |
| 3.20 - 4.30 pm | Michel Herman (University of Paris) Hamiltonian dynamics and the ergodic hypothesis |
| Followed by the LMS Hardy Lecture by Dusa McDuff
entitled 'Women in Mathematics - an informal history' |
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| Tuesday 1 June | |
| 2.00 - 3.10 | John Mather (Princeton) Variational construction of orbits |
| 3.20 - 4.30 | Alan Newell (Mathematics Institute, Warwick) Wave turbulence |
| 5.00 - 6.10 | John Toland (University of Bath) Small amplitude standing water waves |
| ALL ARE WELCOME |
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Monday 24 May |
Tuesday 25 May |
Wednesday 26 May |
Thursday 27 May |
Friday 28 May |
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09:00-09:50 |
Registration
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D. Treschev |
R. MacKay Cartan systems |
S. Bolotin |
D. Bambusi |
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09:55-10:45 |
S. Kuksin
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J. Xia |
P. Boyland Point vortices: reduction, braids and dynamics |
M. Herman Remarks on Lyapunov exponents |
K. Khanin |
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10:45-11:15 |
Coffee Break |
Coffee Break |
Coffee Break |
Coffee Break |
Coffee Break |
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11:15-12:05 |
H. Eliasson
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R. Krikorian Reducibility of quasi-periodic cocycles: local and global aspect |
D. Levermore Complex Ginzburg-Landau equations as perturbations of nonlinear Schrodinger equations: a Melnikov approach |
A. Kupiainen |
A. Veselov On the modulations of the integrable systems |
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12:10-13:00 |
R. dela Llave A geometric approach to the growth of energy in periodic perturbations of geodesic flow |
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[At RSE] 14:00-15:10 |
Henry McKean A different slant on the KdV hierarchy |
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15:20-16:30 |
Michel Herman Hamiltonian dynamics and the ergodic hypothesis |
Coffee and tea will be served at 10.45 and at 13.30 and 15.30.
ICMS Main Office will be open for conference queries from 14.00 to 16.00 Monday to Friday. Staff will be available at other times to deal with unforseen problems, however we would be grateful if you could keep routine administration to the times stated.
Access - the building is open from around 08.30 to 21.30 Monday to Friday. Please see the facilities pages for more information. The building will also be open on Saturday 29th May from 08.30 to 16.00
Evening reception: This will take place at ICMS on Friday 28th from 18.00 to 19.30. Visiting partners and children are welcome to attend.
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Monday 31 May |
Tuesday 1 June |
Wednesday 2 June |
Thursday 3 June |
Friday 5 June |
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09:00-09:50 |
G. Gallavotti A review on the problem of homoclinic splitting and the perturbation method |
E. Sere The Dirac-Fock equations in relativistic quantum chemistry |
T. Kappeler Global Birkhoff coordinates for KdV revisited |
J. Shatah The Heisenberg model for ferromagnets |
P. Panayotaros Hamiltonian dynamics of water waves in spherical geometry |
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09:55-10:45 |
T. Kriecherbauer A new version of the Froehlich -Spencer coupling lemma |
E. Wayne |
V. Rothos Persistent homoclinic structure in sine-Gordon equation with Hamiltonian perturbation |
M. Weinstein Resonance and metastability in Hamiltonian systems |
W. Craig Resonant tori |
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10:45-11:15 |
Coffee Break |
Coffee Break |
Coffee Break |
Coffee Break |
Coffee Break |
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11:15-12:05 |
H-W Su
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D. Nicholls Traveling capillary-gravity water waves in two and three dimensions |
A. Fokas Mastersymmetries and asymptotic integrability |
G. Friesecke Hamiltonian nearest-neighbour chains fifty years after Fermi, Pasta and Ulam |
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12:10-13:00 |
M. Groves Two and three-dimensional steady water waves via Hamiltonian centre manifolds |
M. Bartuccelli On the problem of positivity of solutions for PDEs with higher order differential operators than the Laplacian |
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[At RSE] 14:00-15:10 |
John Mather Variational construction of orbits |
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15:20-16:30 |
Alan Newell Wave turbulence |
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16:30-17:00 |
Tea break |
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17:00-18.10 |
John Toland Small amplitude standing water waves |
| Hamiltonian Mechanics and Small Divisors in PDEs |
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