Agenda

October 10-14, 2011

All talks will take place in Wolfensohn Hall

 

Monday, October 10

 

10-11               Dusa McDuff, Columbia University, “Symplectic invariants – some progress and some problems”  abstract

 

11:30 – 12:30   Walter Craig, McMaster University, “The free surface water wave problem as a Hamiltonian system”  abstract

 

12:30 – 2:30     Lunch (IAS Dining Hall)

 

2:30 – 3:30       Patrice Le Calvez, University Paris 13, “Existence of transverse foliations to identity isotopies on surfaces and applications” abstract

 

3:30 – 4:30       Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)

 

4:30 – 5:30       Ely Kerman, University of Illinois, "A symplectic proof of a theorem of Franks" abstract

 

 

Tuesday, October 11

 

9-10                 Anton Gorodetski, University California, Irvine, “Conservative homoclinic bifurcations and the structure of a stochastic sea of the standard map”  abstract

 

10:15 – 11:15   Vadim Kaloshin, Penn State University, “On Kolmogorov’s conjecture and Hausdorff dimension of oscillatory motions for certain restricted three body problems”   abstract

 

11:30 – 12:30   Victor Ginzburg, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Action-index relations for Hamiltonian dynamical systems”  abstract

 

12:30 – 2:30     Lunch (IAS Dining Hall)

 

2:30 – 3:30       Yiming Long,  Nankai University, “Resonance identities and closed characteristics on compact star-shaped hypersurfaces in R²ⁿ”  abstract

3:30 – 4:30       Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)

 

4:30 – 5:30       Jairo Bochi, PUC-Rio, “Generic symplectic diffeomorphisms and partial hyperbolicity”  abstract

 

 

Wednesday, October 12

 

9-10                 Albert Fathi, ENS Lyon, “Convergence of discounted solutions of the Hamiltonian-Jacobi equation”  abstract

 

10:15 – 11:15   Barney Bramham, IAS, “Using pseudo-holomorphic curves to approximate zero entropy Hamiltonian systems by integrable ones" abstract

 

11:30 – 12:30   Chong-Qing Cheng, Nanjing University, “Regularity of weak KAM”  abstract

 

12:30 – 2:30     Lunch (IAS Dining Hall)

 

2:30 – 3:30       Hakan Eliasson, Université Paris 7, “KAM-Tori accumulating a Diophantine elliptic equilibrium point”  abstract

 

3:30 – 4:30       Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)

 

4:30 – 5:30       Jeff Xia, Northwestern University, “Some intersection and rigidity properties in symplectic dynamics”  abstract

 

 

Thursday, October 13

 

9-10                 Serge Tabachnikov, Penn State University, “Higher pentagram maps and cluster algebras”  abstract

 

10:15 – 11:15   Umberto Hryniewicz, IAS, "Global surfaces of section of tight Reeb flows and applications" abstract

 

11:30 – 12:30   Krystyna Kuperberg, Auburn University, “Flows with nested invariant sets”  abstract

 

12:30 – 2:30     Lunch (IAS Dining Hall)

 

2:30 – 3:30       Yakov Pesin, Penn State University, “Essential coexistence of zero and nonzero Lyapunov exponents for volume preserving maps and flows”  abstract

 

3:30 – 4:30       Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)

 

4:30 – 5:30       Richard Montgomery, University of California, Santa Cruz, “K3 and the planar 4 body problem"  abstract

 

 

 

Friday, October 14

 

9-10                 Gonzalo Contreras, CIMAT, “Generic existence of an elliptic closed geodesic in the 2-sphere”  abstract

 

10:15-11:15     Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University, "New contact Anosov flows via Foulon surgery" abstract

 

11:30 – 12:30   John Franks, Northwestern University, “Entropy zero symplectic diffeomorphisms of S²”  abstract

 

 

~fini