MASESS : Individual Lectures

In addition to the 6 lecture courses, there will also be a number of individual lectures on topics associated to the summer school. So far, these are as follows:

**Invited Lectures** (1 hour)
Animal gaits and coupled oscillators	Luciano Buono (Warwick/Imperial)
Heteroclinic networks	Pascal Chossat (Nice)
Dissipation induced instabilities	Gianne Derks (Surrey)
Hamiltonian dynamics around critical elements	Juan-Pablo Ortega (Lausanne)
Relative equilibria of molecules	Mark Roberts (Warwick)
Periodic orbits in Hill's regions	Luca Sbano (Warwick/Rome)
Symmetries of the affine rigid body	Esmeralda Sousa Dias (Lisbon)
Stability of Hamiltonian relative equilibria of non-compact group actions	Claudia Wulff (Berlin)
Mathematical problems in molecular spectroscopy	Boris Zhilinskii (Dunkirk)

**Other contributions** (1/2 hour)
Bifurcations in low-Prandtl-number Benard-Marangoni convection	Thomas Boeck (Dresden)
Generic twistless bifurcations	Holger Dullin (Loughborough)
Symmetry and resonance in periodic FPU chains	Bob Rink (Utrecht)
A degenerate bifurcation in the Hénon-Heiles family	Britta Sommer (Aachen)
Some remarks on the evaluation of Casimirs in finite dimensional Poisson systems	Razvan Tudoran (Timisoara)
Higher order resonance in two degrees of freedom Hamiltonian systems	Theo Tuwankotta (Utrecht)
A variational characterization of Lagrangian planar homographic solutions	Andrea Venturelli (Paris)

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