First Iberoamerican Meeting on Geometry, Mechanics and Control
The First Iberoamerican Meeting on Geometry, Mechanics and Control will be held on June 23–27, 2008 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Download poster (pdf) in Spanish/Portuguese/English.
Summary
- Committees
- Program
- Participants
- Registration
- Important dates
- Accommodation
- Financial Support
- How to get here
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This event is an activity of the Programa Intensivo de Investigación "Mecánica Geométrica y Teoría de Control" (Intensive Research Program "Geometric Mechanics and Control Theory").
Contact: gmcnet@ull.es
Committees
Scientific and Program Committee
- José F. Cariñena
- Hernán Cendra
- Jair Koiller
- Manuel de León (Chairman)
- Juan Carlos Marrero
- Miguel Muñoz-Lecanda
- Joana M. Nunes da Costa
- Modesto Salgado
Organizing Committee
- Modesto Salgado
- Sebastián Ferraro
- David Martín
- Edith Padrón
- Silvia Vilariño
Program
| Monday 23 | Tuesday 24 | Wednesday 25 | Thursday 26 | Friday 27 | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Opening | David Martín de Diego | Michael Forger | Fátima Silva Leite | Mariano Santander |
| 10:00-11:00 | Jair Koiller | Juan Carlos Marrero | Sergio Blanes | Jorge Moiola | Alberto Ibort |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee |
| 11:30-12:00 | Henrique Bursztyn | Hernán Cendra | Leandro Gomes | Ernesto Pérez Chavela | Diana Sosa |
| 12:00-12:30 | Excursion | Santiago Capriotti | |||
| 12:30-13:00 | Miguel Rodríguez Olmos | Marila Etchechoury | Alejandro Cabrera | Closing | |
| 13:00-16:00 | Lunch break | Lunch break | Lunch break | ||
| 16:00-16:30 | Sandro Romero | Paula Balseiro | Sergio S. Rodrigues | ||
| 16:30-17:00 | Luis García Naranjo | Sergio Grillo | Poster session – Coffee and typical “tarta de Santiago” | ||
| 17:00-17:30 |
Plenary speakers
- Sergio Blanes (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain) — Geometric integrators: composition, splitting and Lie group methods — [Talk]
- Henrique Bursztyn (IMPA, Brazil) — Quasi-Poisson geometry, Dirac structures and moment maps — [Talk]
- Hernán Cendra (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina) — Dirac manifolds and the Dirac theory of constraints
- Michael Forger (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) — Approaches to a covariant hamiltonian formulation of classical field theory — [Talk]
- Alberto Ibort (Universidad Carlos III, Spain) — Optimal control of DAE's: aplications to spin systems — [Talk]
- Jair Koiller (Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil) — Dynamics of vortices on surfaces — [Talk]
- Fátima Silva Leite (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal) — Geometric nonlinear control and applications — [Talk]
- David Martín de Diego (CSIC, Spain) — The geometry of nonholonomic mechanical systems — [Talk]
- Juan Carlos Marrero (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain) — Nonholonomic mechanics: a Lie algebroid perspective — [Talk]
- Jorge Moiola (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina) — On the use of a frequency domain method for classifying the oscillatory behavior in nonlinear control problems — [Talk]
- Ernesto Pérez Chavela (UAM, Mexico) — The Saari's conjecture in celestial mechanics — [Talk]
- Mariano Santander (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain) — Geometric aspects of Integrability: an elementary overview — [Talk]
Invited talks
- Alejandro Cabrera (Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina, and IMPA, Brazil) — Base-controlled mechanical systems and geometric phases — [Talk]
- Paula Balseiro (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina) — Generalized non holonomic systems on Lie algebroids — [Talk]
- Luis García Naranjo (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) — Reduction of almost Poisson brackets for mechanical systems with nonholonomic constraints — [Talk]
- Santiago Capriotti (Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina) — EDS and Dirac theory of constraints — [Talk]
- Sergio Grillo (Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina) — Generalized nonholonomic mechanics and the control of servomechanisms — [Talk]
- Miguel Rodríguez Olmos (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) — Nonlinear stability of Hamiltonian relative equilibria in simple mechanical systems — [Talk]
- Diana Sosa (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain) — Vakonomic mechanics on Lie affgebroids — [Talk]
- Marila Etchechoury (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina) — Examples of the Dirac theory of constraints for Dirac manifolds and further generalizations — [Talk]
- Sandro Romero (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil) — The relation between covariant and functional Hamilton equations — [Talk]
- Leandro Gomes (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, and University of California, Berkeley) — Polysymplectic and multisymplectic geometry of fiber bundles — [Talk]
- Sergio S. Rodrigues (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, and SISSA, Trieste, Italy) — Controllability of Navier-Stokes equations by means of finite-dimensional forcing — [Talk]
Poster session
The meeting will include a poster session. Those participants interested in presenting a poster (in English, maximum size: A1 or 6 x A4) should send an abstract to gmcnet@ull.es before May 15th, 2008. They will be informed by email whether it was accepted.
List of posters
- Explicit solution for the Zhukovski-Volterra gyrostat (Inna Basak)
- Geometrical structures of classical general relativistic phase space given by gravitational and electromagnetic fields (Josef Janyška, Marco Modugno)
- Reduction of discrete nonholonomic mechanical systems with symmetry (Javier Fernández, Cora Inés Tori, Marcela Zucalli)
- Lagrange-d'Alembert-Poincaré equations by stages (Hernán Cendra, Viviana Díaz)
- Symmetries in k-symplectic field theories (Narciso Román Roy, Modesto Salgado, Silvia Vilariño)
- Abnormal trajectories in affine connection control systems (María Barbero Liñán, Miguel C. Muñoz Lecanda)
- Berry phases quantum transition and Chern numbers (Hugo Contreras, Andrés Reyes)
- Jet Prolongations of fibered supermanifolds (Michael Krbek)
- Constraint algorithm for generalized Dirac structures (Germán Zorba)
- An extension of the SHAKE and RATTLE methods for nonholonomic mechanics (Sebastián Ferraro, David Iglesias, David Martín)
- Examples of optimal momentum map calculation (María Eugenia García)
- Integrability of Lie systems in classical and quantum mechanics (José Cariñena, Javier de Lucas)
Participants
List of preregistered participants as of May 27th, 2008.
| Daniel Amariei | Eftimie Murgu University of Resita | Romania |
| Paula Balseiro | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas | Spain |
| Inna Basak Gancheva | Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña | Spain |
| Amina Belhachemi | University of Mostaganem | Algeria |
| Mª Esperanza Blanco Ramírez | Universidad Juárez | Mexico |
| Sergio Blanes | Universidad Politécnica de Valencia | Spain |
| Djillali Bouagada | University of Mostaganem | Algeria |
| Miguel Brozo Vázquez | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela | Spain |
| Henrique Bursztyn | IMPA | Brazil |
| Alejandro Cabrera | Universidad Nacional de la Plata | Argentina |
| Esteban Calviño Louzao | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela | Spain |
| Santiago Capriotti | Universidad Nacional de Villa María | Argentina |
| José F. Cariñena | Universidad de Zaragoza | Spain |
| Hernán Cendra | Universidad Nacional del Sur | Argentina |
| Domingo Chinea | Universidad de La Laguna | Spain |
| Leo Colombo | Universidad de La Plata | Argentina |
| Hugo Alejandro Contreras Palacios | Universidad de los Andes | Colombia |
| Sérgio da Silva Rodrigues | Universidad de Aveiro | Portugal |
| Araceli de Francisco Iribarren | Universidad de León | Spain |
| Manuel de León | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas | Spain |
| Javier de Lucas | Universidad de Zaragoza | Spain |
| Antonio de Nicola | Universidad de Coimbra | Portugal |
| Alejandro Díaz | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Mexico |
| Viviana Alejandra Díaz | Universidad Nacional del Sur | Argentina |
| Nabahats Adiba Dib | université de Tlemcen Algérie | Algeria |
| Marila Etchechoury | Universidad Nacional de La Plata | Argentina |
| Yuri Fedorov | Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña | Spain |
| Sebastian Ferraro | Universidad Nacional del Sur | Argentina |
| Michael Forger | Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil | Brazil |
| Mª Eugenia García | Universidad Nacional de La Plata | Argentina |
| Luís García Naranjo | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
| Leandro Gómes | Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil | Brazil |
| Eduardo Gracía-Rio | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela | Spain |
| Sergio Grilllo | Instituto Balseiro | Argentina |
| Elisa Lavinia Guzman Alonso | Universidad de La Laguna | Spain |
| Claudia H. Mena | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, | Mexico |
| Alberto Ibort | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Spain |
| Josef Janyška | Masaryk University at Brno | Czech Republic |
| Dariusz Karaś | Nicolaus Copernicus University | Polonia |
| Jair Koiller | Fundação Getulio Vargas | Brazil |
| Michael Krbek | Czech Technical University | Czech Republic |
| Nutan Kumar Tomar | Indian Institute of Technology | India |
| Ramiro Lafuente | Univeridad Nacional de la Plata | Argentina |
| Fatima Leite | Universidade de Coimbra | Portugal |
| Mª Montserrat López Cabeceira | Universidad de León | Spain |
| Juan Carlos Marrero | Universidad de La Laguna | Spain |
| David Martín de Diego | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas | Spain |
| Eduardo Martinez | Universidad de Zaragoza | Spain |
| Cédric Martínez Campos | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas | Spain |
| Carlos Meniño Cotón | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela | Spain |
| Eugenio Merino-Gayoso | Universidad de A Coruña | Spain |
| Jorge Moiola | Universidad Nacional del Sur | Argentina |
| Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda | Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña | Spain |
| Joana Nunes da Costa | Universidade de Coimbra | Portugal |
| Cristian Ortiz González | IMPA | Brazil |
| Edith Padrón | Universidad de La Laguna | Spain |
| Giancarlo Germán Pastor Figueroa | Universidad Complutense de Madrid | Spain |
| Ernesto Perez Chavela | UAM | Mexico |
| María Pérez Fernández de Córdoba | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela | Spain |
| Andres Fernando Reyes Lega | Universidad de los Andes | Colombia |
| Miguel Rodríguez-Olmos | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
| Narciso Román-Roy | Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña | Spain |
| Sandro Romero | Universidade Federal de Vicosa | Brazil |
| Modesto Salgado | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela | Spain |
| Rafael Santamaría Sánchez | Universidad de León | Spain |
| Mariano Santander | Universidad de Valladolid | Spain |
| Laura Patricia Schaposnik Massolo | Universidad de La Plata | Argentina |
| Javier Seoane Bascoy | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela | Spain |
| Diana Sosa | Universidad de La Laguna | Spain |
| Cora Inés Tori | Universidad Nacional de La Plata | Argentina |
| Ramón Vázquez Lorenzo | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela | Spain |
| Susana Vega Casielles | Universidad de León | Spain |
| Silvia Vilariño | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela | Spain |
| Tatevik Yeghiazaryan | National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Institute of Mechanics | Armenia |
| Wael Youssef | Université de Paul Verlaine | France |
| German Zorba | Universidad Nacional de La Plata | Argentina |
| Marcela Zuccalli | Universidad Nacional de La Plata | Argentina |
Registration
In order to register for the meeting, you must:
- Send an e-mail to gmcnet@ull.es with the following information:
- Important: Include the text "Registration to the First Iberoamerican Meeting on Geometry, Mechanics and Control"
- First & middle name
- Last name(s)
- University or research center
- Department or institute
- Mailing address
- E-mail address
- Indicate whether you are a graduate student or postdoc
- Pay the registration fee by bank transfer:
- Registration fee: 200 euros
- Registration fee for graduate students and postdocs: 100 euros
- Account info:
Bank: Cajacanarias
Account: 2065 0067 61 1400223636
IBAN: ES31 2065 0067 6114 0022 3636
BIC/SWIFT: CECAESMM065 - Please ask your bank to write explicitly in your transfer order the text "EIGMC + surname of the participant".
- As soon as you make the transfer, send us a message to gmcnet@ull.es and tell us the date of the operation. You will receive a confirmation e-mail.
Important
- Deadline for making the bank transfer: May 15th, 2008.
- The registration will not become effective until the fee is paid.
Important dates
- April 20th, 2008: Deadline for applications for financial support.
- May 15th, 2008: Deadline for making the bank transfer of the registration fee.
- May 15th, 2008: Deadline for sending abstracts for the poster session.
Accommodation
Addresses
- Colegio Mayor Fonseca
- Colegio Mayor San Clemente
- Residencia Universitaria Monte da Condesa
Praza Rodríguez Cadarso, s/n.
Campus Universitario Sur.
15782 Santiago de Compostela
A Coruña (Spain)
Phone: +34 981 547 150 / +34 981 587 111
Fax: +34 981 560 441
Email: cmfnseca@usc.es
Praza Rodríguez Cadarso, s/n.
Campus Universitario Sur.
15782 Santiago de Compostela
A Coruña (Spain)
Phone: +34 981 583 244 / +34 981 547 149
Fax: +34 981 560 441
Email: cmclemen@usc.es
Campus Universitario Sur, s/n.
15782 Santiago de Compostela
A Coruña (Spain)
Phone: +34 981 547 153 / +34 981 580 809
Fax: +34 981 574 696
Email: RMC221@si.usc.es
We have arrangements for 15 double rooms at Residencia Monte de la Condesa and student residences. Their price is 25 euros per room. If you wish to book a room, send an e-mail to modesto@zmat.usc.es mentioning the check-in and check-out dates.
A travel agency will deal with hotel bookings. You can see the hotel rates and make the reservations in http://santyagocongresos.com/gmc2008/ (in Spanish).
Financial Support
The organization can provide a limited number of grants to co-finance the accommodation or travel expenses for young researchers.
If you want to apply, send an e-mail to gmcnet@ull.es with a brief CV attached, no later than April 20th, 2008.
How to get here
By plane
Santiago de Compostela Airport (SCQ) is located 10km from the city center. The following airlines fly to SCQ from different countries:
- Aer Lingus
- Air Europa
- Air Berlin
- Click Air
- Iberia
- British Airways
- Plaza
- Ryanair
- Spanair
- Lufthansa
- Vueling
You can take a taxi or a Compañía Freire bus to get from the airport to the city center.
Other airports near Santiago de Compostela:
By train
Santiago de Compostela is connected to the international rail network through RENFE. The train station is located near the city center.
By bus
The bus station is located in the east side of the city, about 10 minutes from the city center. The following companies connect Santiago de Compostela to different European cities:
By car
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