XXV Workshop on Differential Geometric Methods

in Theoretical Mechanics

Levico T. (Trento), August 22^nd-28^th, 2010

List of main speakers

1) Boris Konopeltchenko: Deformations of algebraic varieties, associative algebras and integrable systems.

2) Askold Perelomof: Explicit integration of equation of motion of integrable systems.

3) Franco Magri: Frobenius manifolds.

4) Mauro Carfora: Introduction to the Ricci flow.

5) Willy Sarlet: Gamma calculus: so what?

6) Alberto Ibort: Reduction procedures.

7) Giovanni Romano: The covariance paradigm in nonlinear continuum mechanics.

8) Luca Vitagliano: The Hamilton formalism in higher derivative calculus of variations.

9) Charles-Michel Marle: From Lie groups actions to Lie groupoid actions on the manifold of
motions of a mechanical system; example: manifold of motions of the Kepler problem.

10) Enrico Massa: Hamilton Jacobi theory: a bridge between analytical mechanics and wave mechanics.

11) Witold Respondek: Canonical contact distributions on jets bundles.

12) Janusz Grabowski: Courant brackets and Dirac structures.

13) Luis Garcia-Naranjo: Nonholonomic constrained systems.

14) Paolo Facchi: Zeno dynamics and quantum constraints.

15) Jesus Clemente-Gallardo: Zeno dynamics and control theory.

16) Alexander Vinogradov: Secondary calculus.