Workshop on Dynamical Systems
Edinburgh, 10-14 July 2000
Scientific Programme
The Programme will start on the monrning of Monday 10 July and run through to the afternoon of Friday 14th July.NEW - Timetable changes made 7 July 2000.
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| International Scientific
Committee S Aubry (France) L Bunimovich (USA) J-P Eckmann (Switzerland) H Eliasson (Sweden) M Herman (France) A Kupiainen (Finland) J Palis (Brazil) D Ruelle (France) L Shilnikov (Russia) Ya Sinai (Russia) M Viana (Brazil) L-S Young (USA) |
Local Organisers Konstantin Khanin (Heriot-Watt, currently Hewlett Packard Fellow at INI) Robert MacKay (Warwick) Mark Pollicott (Manchester) |
| The workshop will
concentrate on open problems and applications of dynamical systems. There will
be no parallel sessions. The Organisers' intent is to encourage discussion.
Each session on open problems will start with a review of a particular area by
an invited speaker and will be followed by ample time for discussion. The speakers, grouped under four headings for convenience, are: |
|
| Spatially extended dynamics
Aubry: networks Eckmann: PDEs |
Hamiltonian dynamics Herman: the notion of KAM sympletic manifold and energy surface de la Llave: Arnol'd diffusion |
| Low dimensional dynamics Turaev: homoclinic bifurcations Viana: non-uniformly hyperbolic dynamics Yoccoz: complex dynamics Davie: renormalisation and universality |
Applications Stark: life sciences Kozlovski: dynamo Eliasson: quantum physics Laskar: celestial mechanics Libchaber: molecular biology |
Workshop Timetable
| Monday 10th July | |
| 8.30 - 9.30 | Registration |
| Session 1 - Homoclinic bifurcations | |
| 9.30 - 10.30 | Review by Dmitry Turaev |
| 10.30 - 11.30 | Review by Enrique Pujals (added 7 July) |
| 11.30 -11.45 | Coffee |
| 11.45 - 1.00 | Discussion, chaired by Jacob Palis |
| 1.00 - 2.00 | Lunch break |
| Session 2 - Spatially extended dynamics | |
| 2.00 - 3.00 | Review by Serge Aubry |
| 3.00 - 4.00 | Review by Jean-Pierre Eckmann |
| 4.00 - 4.30 | Coffee |
| 4.30 - 6.00 | Discussion, chaired by Yakov Pesin |
| 6.30 | Coach arrives to transport to Conference Dinner |
| Tuesday 11th July | |
| Session 3 - Renormalisation | |
| 9.00 - 10.00 | Review by A M Davie |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Coffee |
| 10.30 - 12.00 | Discussion, chaired by Hans Koch |
| 12.00 - 2.00 | Lunch break |
| Session 4 - Hamiltonian Dynamics | |
| 2.00 - 3.00 | Review by Michel Herman. On a theorem of Newhouse: the notion of KAM sympletic manifold and energy surface |
| 3.00 - 4.00 | Review by Rafael de la Llave |
| 4.00 - 4.30 | Coffee |
| 4.30 - 6.00 | Discussion, chaired by Sergey Bolotin |
| Wednesday 12th July | |
| Session 5 Complex Dynamics | |
| 9.00 - 10.00 | J-C Yoccoz |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Coffee |
| 10.30 - 12.00 | discussion, chaired by Mikhail Lyubich |
| 12.00 - 2.00 | Lunch break |
| Session 6 - Applications/Posters | |
| 2.00 - 3.00 | Hakan Eliasson on quantum physics |
| 3.00 - 5.00 | Poster Session (coffee at 4.00) |
| 5.00 - 6.00 | Jaroslav Stark on life sciences |
| Thursday 13th July | |
| Session 7 - Nonuniform hyperbolicity | |
| 9.00 - 10.00 | Review by Marcelo Viana |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Discussion on Nonuniform Hyperbolicity, chaired by Vivaine Baladi |
| 12.00 - 2.00 | Lunch break |
| Session 7 - Applications/Posters | |
| 2.00 - 3.00 | Oleg Kozlovski on dynamo |
| 3.00 - 5.00 | Poster Session (coffee at 4.00) |
| 5.00 - 6.00 | Jacques Laskar on celestial mechanics |
| Friday 14th July | |
| Session 8 - Applications | |
| 9.00 - 10.00 | Albert Libchaber on molecular biology |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Coffee |
| 10.30 - 12.00 | Discussion on Applications, chaired by Colin Sparrow |
| 12.00 - 3.30 | free time |
| 3.30 - 4.30 | Guest Lecture Martin Kruskal on Surreal Numbers (added 7 July) |
| 5.00 - 8.30 | Reception at ICMS |
This meeting's pages last updated 07 July 2000