Dynamics and Hamiltonian Systems

Conference in Honour of Richard Cushman for his 65-th Birthday

The lectures take place in room K11, in the basement of the Mathematical Institute. Every day there is coffee in the neighbouring `Eigenruimte' from 9:00 on, on Monday from 8:30 on.

• Monday 26 March 2007

  • 8:30-9:15 Registration
  • 9:30-9:45 Opening
  • 9:45-10:45 Jan Sanders: Addition of nilpotent normal forms
  • 11:15-12:15 Nguyen Tien Zung: Normal forms of Hamiltonian systems on Poisson manifolds
  • 14:00-15:00 Andrea Giacobbe: On singularities of 2 degrees of freedom completely integrable systems
  • 15:30-16:30 Mark Roberts: The hodograph, Kepler's laws and solar sail spacecraft
  • 17:00 Borrel

• Tuesday 27 March 2007

  • 9:30-10:30 Wilberd van der Kallen: Good filtration dimension, an offshoot of Invariant Theory in positive characteristic
  • 11:00-12:00 Larry Bates: The Morse index in the presence of symmetry
  • 13:30-14:30 Jan-Cees van der Meer: Hamiltonian Hopf bifurcations, perturbed Keplerian sytems and harmonic oscillators
  • 15:00-16:00 Hans Duistermaat: The QRT map as an automorphism of a rational elliptic surface
  • 16:30-17:30 Vũ Ngọc San: Integrable Hamiltonian systems with common action integrals

• Wednesday 28 March 2007

  • 9:30-10:30 Boris Zhilinskií: Generalizations of monodromy. Physico-chemical way
  • 11:00-12:00 Frits Beukers: Monodromy and eigenvalues
  • 14:00-15:00 Holger Dullin: On the frequency map near 1:-2 resonance
  • 15:30-16:30 Dmitrií Sadovskií: Monodromy of the hydrogen atom in electric and magnetic fields
  • 16:45-17:15 Literary Reading by Ven Begamudré
  • 18:00 Conference Dinner

• Thursday 29 March 2007

  • 9:30-10:30 Henk Broer: Geometry of resonance tongues
  • 11:00-12:00 Horst Knörrer: Explicit Symmetries of the Kepler Problem
  • 14:00-15:00 Arjeh Cohen: Brauer algebra and geometry
  • 15:30-16:30 Jędrzej Śniatycki: Algebraic and Singular Reduction of Symmetries
  • 17:00 Reception

• Friday 30 March 2007

  • 9:30-10:30 Francesco Fassò: Noetherian first integrals of nonholonomic systems
  • 11:00-12:00 Ivan Mamaev: Hierarchy of dynamics of nonholomonic systems
  • 14:00-15:00 Yuri Fedorov: Reduction and integrability of nonholonomic LR systems
  • 15:30-16:30 George Patrick: Variational structure recognition for nonholonomic mechanics