The 4th Summer School on Geometry, Mechanics and Control will be held in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) on July 5th–9th, 2010.

Latest news

• We have added some extra maps (June 21st).
• See the updated schedule (June 21st).
• Registration is now closed. Also, there are no rooms left in the University residence.

Supported by

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación	Ingenio Mathematica	Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas	Universidad de La Laguna	Geometry, Mechanics and Control Network

Committees

Organizing Committee

• Sebastián Ferraro (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina)
• Jair Koiller (Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil)
• David Martín de Diego (Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (CSIC-UAM-UC3M-UCM), Spain)
• Edith Padrón (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)
• Modesto Salgado (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
• Silvia Vilariño (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

Scientific Committee

• Anthony Bloch (University of Michigan, USA)
• Jair Koiller (Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil)
• Manuel de León (Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (CSIC-UAM-UC3M-UCM), Spain)
• Juan Carlos Marrero (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)
• Eduardo Martínez (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
• Miguel Muñoz Lecanda (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Spain)

Schedule

• Roger Brockett (Harvard University, USA) — Aspects of Subriemannian Geometry with Applications in Control Theory and Physics (course, 7 hours) [pdf with references]
• Alberto Ibort (University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) — A tribute to V.I. Arnold: Theory of Singularities and Optimal Control (course, 4 hours)
• Fátima Leite (University of Coimbra, Portugal) — Four lectures on geometric control theory (course, 4 hours) [pdf]
• Joris Vankerschaver (Ghent University, Belgium) — Rigid Bodies with circulation from a geometric point of view (talk) [pdf]

Invited short talks

List of invited short talks, with abstracts.

• Paula Balseiro (IMPA, Brazil) [pdf]
• Javier de Lucas (Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
• David Martínez (Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa, Portugal)
• Viviana Díaz (University of Nacional del Sur, Argentina) [pdf]
• Silvia Vilariño (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) [pdf]
• Marco Caponigro (Institut Elie Cartan, France) [pdf]
• Anna Korolko (University of Bergen, Norway) [pdf]
• David Ellis (Imperial College London, UK)

Important dates

• Registration: no later than May 15, 2010. Note that registration is now closed.
• Accommodation: no later than May 15, 2010.
• Scholarships: no later than April 15, 2010.

Financial Support

A limited number of scholarships for PhD students, advanced undergraduate students, and post-docs, will be provided by the organizers in order to partially cover the travel and/or lodging expenses. If you want to apply for a scholarship, please send your CV (and grade certificate in case you are an undergraduate student) to gmcnet@ull.es, not later than April 15, 2010.

Registration (closed!)

(Pre)registration for the School is already closed. Of course, you can still pay the registration fee.

The standard registration fee for participants is 200 Euros.

The fee for students and retired scientists is 100 Euros.

The registration fee includes: conference materials and coffee breaks. Payment should be made by bank order to the following bank account:

• 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 transference order the name "4GMC + surname of the participant" and send confirmation (your name and transfer details) by e-mail to gmcnet@ull.es or by fax to the number +34922318145, no later than May 15, 2010.

Lodging reservation

The number of rooms that have been reserved by the organization is limited (In Santiago 2010 is Xacobeo year and there are problems to reserve the lodging) therefore we ask you to make the reservation as soon as possible (not later than May 15, 2010).

The prices of the rooms are the following:

• MONTE DA CONDESA (University Residence) FULL
  • Double room: 15 Euros per person and day, VAT included.
• HOTEL TORRES DE COMPOSTELA
  • Single room: 90 Euros (Room + Breakfast) VAT included.
  • Double room: 50 Euros per person (Room + breakfast) VAT included.

To make the reservation of the accommodation in MONTE DA CONDESA you can send an e-mail to gmcnet@ull.es with the following information: (Disregard this information, since Monte da Condesa is already full)

• If you have a preference to share the room
• Check-in date:
• Check-out date:

To make the reservation of the accommodation contact with Agencia Viajes Santyago (congresos.santyago@grupoeuropa.com), writing explicitly “GMC” in the subject of the message.

Participants

List of preregistered participants as of June 30th, 2010.

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
• Iberia
• British Airways
• Plaza
• Ryanair
• Spanair
• Lufthansa
• Vueling

Other airports near Santiago de Compostela:

• A Coruña (LCG) 60 km
• Vigo (VGO) 90 km
• Porto (OPO) 220 km

From Santiago de Compostela Airport to the city

You can take a Compañía Freire bus to get from the airport to the city center. Also, taxis from the airport to anywhere in Santiago de Compostela cost 19 euro.

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:

• Alsa
• Socitransa

By car

Going from the train station to the University Residence (Monte da Condesa)

Going from the University Residence and the hotel to the conference venue (Faculty of Mathematics)