Geometry and Symmetry in Continuum Mechanics


10 - 14 December 2001

 

PROGRAMME
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9.30 - 10.15 Groves 9.30 - 10.15 Hydon 9.30 - 10.15 Lewis 9.30 - 10.15 Oliver
10.00 - 11.00 Coffee 10.15 - 11.00 Coffee 10.15 - 11.00 Coffee 10.15 - 11.00 Coffee 10.15 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 11.45 Cullen 11.00 - 11.45 Lombardi 11.00 - 11.45 Kambe 11.00 - 11.45 West 11.00 - 11.45 Bila
11.45 - 12.30 Clarkson 11.45 - 12.30 Rothos 11.45 - 12.30 Fukumoto 11.45 - 12.30 Theil 11.45 - 12.30 Roulstone
12.30 - 2.00 Lunch 12.30 - 2.00 Lunch 12.30 - 2.00 Lunch 12.30 - 2.00 Lunch 12.30 - 2.00 Lunch
2.15 - 3.00 Ricca 2.15 - 3.00 Derks 2.15 - 3.00 Heijden 2.15 - 3.00 Fern/Garc Informal Discussions
3.00 - 4.15 Tea 3.00 - 4.15 Tea 3.00 - 4.15 Tea 3.00 - 4.15 Tea 3.00 - 4.15 Tea
4.15 - 5.00 Bridges 4.15 - 5.00 Kanatchikov 4.15 - 5.00 Melbourne 4.15 - 5.00 Vann/Wiro Informal Discussions
Evening: Buffet Supper
 

TITLES OF TALKS
Nicoleta Bila Cambridge Symmetry reductions, variational symmetries and conservation laws for the shallow water and semi-geostrophic PDE systems
Tom Bridges Surrey Secondary bifurcation of multi-symplectic relative equilibria
Peter Clarkson Kent Symmetry reductions and exact solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations
Mike Cullen ECMRWF Applications of geometric mechanics to weather systems
Gianne Derks Surrey Solitary wave solutions of fifth-order KdV equations and their stability
Antonio Fernandez / Pedro Garcia Salamanca Lagrangian reduction in dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics
Yasuhide Fukumoto Kyushu Stationary configuration of a vortex filament and related integrable systems
Mark Groves Loughborough A dimension-breaking phenomenon in the theory of steady gravity-capillary water waves
Gert van der Heijden UCL Rods subject to (in)equality constraints: a variational approach
Peter Hydon Surrey Conservation laws for Multisymplectic PDEs
Tsutomu Kambe Tokyo Geometrical aspects of dynamical systems and integrable systems
Igor Kanatchikov Hamburg Poisson-Gerstenhaber brackets and polysymplectic structure in precanonical Hamiltonian field theory
Debra Lewis Santa Cruz Isotropy in Lie group integration schemes on homogeneous manifolds
Eric Lombardi INLN Gravity travelling waves for two superposed fluid layers, one being of infinite depth: a new type of bifurcation
Ian Melbourne Surrey Ginzburg-Landau theory of transitions in spatially extended systems
Marcel Oliver Tubingen Variational asymptotics for the shallow water equations in the low Rossby number limit
Renzo Ricca UCL In search of symmetries in magnetic knots
Vassilis Rothos Loughborough Chaotic Rotations of an asymmetric body with time-dependent moments of inertia and viscous drag
Ian Roulstone Met Office Quaternionic and K\"ahler structures in hydrodynamical models of geostrophic flows
Florian Theil Warwick On the evolution of oscillations in Hamiltonian PDE
Matthew West Caltech Asynchronous variational integrators for solid mechanics
Djoko Wirosoetisno / Jacques Vanneste Edinburgh Two-dimensional fluid flows in deformed domains