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M A S E S S II

Mechanics and Symmetry

Euro Summer School

Coordinator: James Montaldi
(University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis)

This is the second of two European Summer Schools on Mechanics and Symmetry (the first took place in Sept 2000).
Although taking place in France, it will mark the start of a special year at the University of Warwick Mathematics Research Centre devoted to Mechanics and Symmetry.

Dates :
Arrival: Sunday 2th September, 2001
Departure: Saturday 15th September, 2001.

Location: Peyresq, France (not far from Nice)

**Lecture courses**
Infinite Dimensional Lie Groups and Applications	Stephen Shkoller (UC Davis)
Phase Space Reduction and Reconstruction	Tudor Ratiu (Lausanne) and Matt Perlmutter* (Massey)
Multi-symplectic Geometry and Mechanics	Tom Bridges and Gianne Derks (Surrey)
Numerical Methods for Mechanics	Sebastian Reich (Imperial College)
Stability and Bifurcations of Relative Equilibria	Mark Roberts (Warwick) and Claudia Wulff (Berlin)
KAM theory and Nekhoroshev stability	Henk Broer (Groningen) and Franceso Fassò (Padova)

* = to be confirmed

There will also be other individual lectures on topics close to the lecture courses.

Scientific committee:
Jerry Marsden, James Montaldi, Tudor Ratiu, Mark Roberts

Local organizing committee:
James Montaldi, Pascal Chossat

European Commission contract number: HPCF-CT-1999-00067

James Montaldi

Last modified: Thu Jan 11 08:25:24 CET 2001