Nonlinearity & Geometry

20-23 January 2017, Wydział Fizyki (lecture room 0.06), Uniwersytet Warszawski

Programme

Friday the 20th

• Arrivals
• 19:00 Reception

Saturday the 21st

• 09:30 - 09:40   Welcome:   Jan Cieśliński
• 09:40 - 10:20   Antoni Sym,     "Two mentors of mine";
• 10:20 - 10:50   Daniel Wójcik & Paweł Goldstein,  "History of an unusual didactics experiment"

• 10:50 - 11:20             Coffee break

• 11:20 - 11:50   Gernot Neugebauer,    "Application of the inverse scattering method to Einstein's field equations"
• 11:50 - 12:20   Reinhard Meinel,    "Quasi-stationary collapse scenarios in general relativity"
• 12:20 - 12:50   Maciej Błaszak,     "R-separability of Stackel systems"

• 13:00 - 14:30             Lunch

• 14:30 - 15:00   Yuriy Aminov,    "To Hopf's conjecture about metric on the topological product S² × S² of two 2-spheres"  
• 15:00 - 15:30   Jacek Tafel,    "Covariant description of isothermic surfaces”
• 15:30 - 16:00   Wolfgang Schief    "The geometry and algebraic integrability of discrete confocal quadrics."

• 16:00 - 16:30             Coffee break

• 16:30 - 17:00   Michal Marvan,    "On infinitely many conservation laws of the constant astigmatism equation"
• 17:00 - 17:30   Artur Sergyeyev,    "New (3+1)-dimensional integrable systems related to contact geometry"
• 17:30 - 18:00   Andriy Panasyuk,    "Kronecker webs, Nijenhuis operators, and nonlinear PDEs"

• 19:30                        SYMposium dinner

Sunday the 22nd

• 09:00 - 09:25   Paweł Goldstein,     "Topological invariants in Sobolev spaces"
• 09:25 - 09:50   Piotr Mucha,     "Fluids in mathematics"
• 09:50 - 10:10   Piotr Szymczak,     "Laplacian growth: from groundwater flow to the Toda hierarchy"
• 10:10 - 10:30   Daniel Wójcik,     "Inverse methods in neuroscience"

• 10:30 - 11:00             Coffee break

• 11:00 - 11:30   Iwo Białynicki-Birula,     "How it all began"
• 11:30 - 12:00   Maria Przybylska,    "Note on intgerability of stretch-twist-fold (STF) flows"
• 12:00 - 12:30   Piotr Goldstein,    "Stability of nonlinear waves and solitons described by the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation"
• 12:30 - 13:00   Anatolij Prykarpatski,     "The integrable heavenly type equations and their Lie-algebraic structure"

• 13:00 - 14:30             Lunch

• 14:30 - 14:50   Mariusz Białecki,     "On a simple model of earthquake generation and Motzkin numbers recurrence"
• 14:50 - 15:10   Maciej Nieszporski,     "Standing upon the shoulders of giants, on the Bianchi surfaces"
• 15:10 - 15:35   Adam Doliwa,     "On a geometric solution of Zamolodchikov's tetrahedron equation"
• 15:35 - 16:00   Jan Cieśliński,     "The Sym formula and Spin groups"

• 16:00 - 19:00             Free afternoon
• 19:00                        Dinner

Monday the 23rd

• 8:00 - 9:30       Breakfast
• Departures