SEMINAR LIST
(for period 17/07/2000 to 06/07/2001)

Monday 17 July

09.20-09.25 K Moffatt	FBP
Welcome

09.25-09.30 J Ockendon	FBP
Introduction

09.30-10.45 P Lillford (Unilever)	FBP
Discussion on eating, drinking, etc

11.45-13.00 P Fryer (Birmingham)	FBP
Discussion on chocolate and sticky food

14.00-14.30 J Sethian (Berkeley)	FBP
Level set methods

14.30-15.45 J Mitchell (Nottingham)	FBP
Discussion on bubbles in baked systems

16.30-17.45 R Davies (Aberystwyth)	FBP
Discussion on gel extrusion in tubes and sheets, manufacture of chewy sweets, dough mixing and flaking in cereals manufacture

Tuesday 18 July

09.30-11.00 E Tuck (Adelaide)	FBP
Gas layers in extrusion

09.30-11.00 J Chapman (Oxford)	FBP
Thermomechanical effects and plastics

09.30-11.00 J Ockendon (Oxford)	FBP
Bolus (GOB) formation

11.45-12.45 P Sadd (RHM Technology Ltd)	FBP
Free boundary problems in RHM

14.00-15.00 N Barton (CSIRO)	FBP
Extrusion and granular flow

15.00-16.00 A Lacey (Heriot-Watt)	FBP
Differential scanning calorimetry

15.00-16.00 J Hinch (Cambridge)	FBP
Growth of bubbles in sticky materials

15.00-16.00 R Davies (Aberystwyth)	FBP
Two-phase squeeze films

16.45- .	FBP
Continued Discussions

Wednesday 19 July

09.30-11.00 E Tuck (Adelaide)	FBP
Fracture of porous media

09.30-11.00 R Davies (Aberystwyth)	FBP
Rheologically complex fluids

09.30-11.00 J Sethian, C Elliott (Berkeley and Sussex)	FBP
Level-set and other numerical methods

11.30-13.00 A Fasano (Degli Studi de Firenze)	FBP
Presentation

11.30-13.00 L Alvarez-Vazquez (Vigo)	FBP
Presentation

14.00-15.00 W Rudnicki (Warsaw)	FBP
Presentation

15.00-16.00 J Ockendon (Oxford)	FBP
Foams, sponges and crust formation

15.00-16.00 J Hinch (Cambridge)	FBP
Sticky contacts

16.45- .	FBP
Continued discussions

Thursday 20 July

09.30-11.00 C Please (Southampton)	FBP
Chocolate extrusion: airgaps and iternal structure

09.30-11.00 A Lacey (Heriot-Watt)	FBP
Crust, foam, sponge and phase changes

12.00-13.00 R Davies (Aberystwyth)	FBP
Flaking and gel drawdown

14.00-16.00 P Sadd, S Howison (RHM Technology Ltd and Oxford)	FBP
Coating

14.00-16.00	FBP
Other (organic) discussion

Friday 21 July

09.30-10.45	FBP
Wind up session of study groups

11.45-13.00	FBP
Review sessions

Monday 24 July

09.30-10.45 R Mattheij (TU Eindhoven)	FBP
Discussion on bottle manufacture

11.45-13.00 P Howell (Nottingham)	FBP
Discussion on thin sheets

14.00-14.45 D Gelder, D Martlew (Pilkington)	FBP
Discussion on the glass industry

14.45-15.45 H Loch (Schott)	FBP
Discussion on the glass industry

16.30-17.15 EJ Hinch (Cambridge)	FBP
Discussion on numerical methods

Tuesday 25 July

09.30-10.45 J Hinch, J Ockendon (Cambridge and Oxford)	FBP
Flux/foam modelling

09.30-10.45 J Harper (Victoria University, Wellington)	FBP
Refractory corrosion

11.00-13.00 B Van der Linden, N Siedow (TU Eindhoven and Kaiserlautern)	FBP
Radiation problems

14.00-15.45 J Hinch (Cambridge)	FBP
Numerical methods

16.00-17.45 P Howell, D Gelder (Nottingham and Pilkington)	FBP
Fictive temperature

16.00-17.45 R Mattheij (TU Eindhoven)	FBP
Radiatic problems

18.00- .	FBP
Summing up of the day's activities

Wednesday 26 July

09.30-10.45 C Please (Southampton)	FBP
Optimum inlet mould design

09.30-10.45 D Gelder, J Ockendon (Pilkington and Oxford)	FBP
Toughened glass fracture

11.30-13.00 P Howell (Nottingham)	FBP
Visco-elastic buckling

11.30-13.00 N Barton, J Hinch (CSIRO and Cambridge)	FBP
Gob deformation

14.00-15.00 Y Stokes (Adelaide)	FBP
Lens moulding

15.00-16.00 D Martlew, H Tucker (Pilkington and Birmingham)	FBP
Condensation and weathering

15.00-16.00 D Salazar, J Ockendon (TU Eindhoven and Oxford)	FBP
Windscreen sag and lift-off

16.30-18.00 D Mattheij, J Harper (TU Eindhoven and Victoria University, We)	FBP
Stick-slip and rippling

16.30-18.00 C Please (Southampton)	FBP
Foam mechanics

18.00- .	FBP
Summing up of the day's activities

Thursday 27 July

09.30-10.15 V Entov (Russian Academy of Sciences)	FBP
Multifibre drawing

10.15-11.00 J Hinch (Cambridge)	FBP
St Gobain problems

11.30-13.00 H Loch, U Lange (Schott)	FBP
Optimal stirrers

14.00-15.30 J Hinch (Cambridge)	FBP
Visco-elastic buckling will be revisited

16.00- . D Mattheij (TU Eindhoven)	FBP
Rippling/stick-slip will be revisited

Friday 28 July

09.30-11.00	FBP
Wind up session of study groups

11.15-12.30	FBP
Continuation of wind up session

Monday 31 July

09.30-10.45 P Davidson (Cambridge)	FBP
Discussion on aluminium reduction

The geometry of unfoldings I

09.45-10.45 CTC Wall (Liverpool)	SGT

Stratification theory and metric properties of analytic sets I

11.15-12.15 A Parusinski (Angers)	SGT

11.45-13.00 V Voller (Minnesota)	FBP
Discussion on microsegregation

14.00-15.15 N Barton, N Stokes (CSIRO)	FBP
Discussion on casting, including high pressure die casting

The geometry of families of singular curves I

14.00-15.00 GM Greuel, C Lossen (Kaiserslautern)	SGT

Equisingularity of complex sets and mappings I

15.30-16.30 T Gaffney (Boston)	SGT

16.30-17.45 H Engl (Linz)	FBP
Discussion on control of inverse problems

Tuesday 1 August

The geometry of unfoldings II

09.00-10.00 CTC Wall (Liverpool)	SGT

09.30-11.00 A Howe, S Rogers (Corus and Alcan International Ltd)	FBP
Solidification and microstructure in the steel and aluminium industries

Non-isolated singularities I

10.30-11.30 D Siersma (Utrecht)	SGT

11.30-13.00 J Etay, Y Fautrelle, A Sneyd (EPM-MADYLAM and Waikato)	FBP
MHD flows, instabilities, dome shaping

Newton talk: Kuo-Verdier regularities, normal cones, and continuous density

11.45-12.30 D Trotman (Marseille)	SGT

14.00-15.30 Z Djuric (Oxford)	FBP
Spray forming

14.00-15.30 J Ockendon (Oxford)	FBP
Sloshing and ledges in aluminium reduction

14.00-15.30 S Luckhaus (Leipzig)	FBP
Ternary allot solidification

Stratification theory and metric properties of analytic sets II

14.00-15.00 A Parusinski (Angers)	SGT

Sandwiched triangles, stochastic matrices and the topology of the space of explanations

15.30-16.30 D Mond (Warwick)	SGT

15.45-18.00 Z Djuric (Oxford)	FBP
Spray forming

15.45-18.00 J Ockendon (Oxford)	FBP
Sloshing and ledges in aluminium reduction

15.45-18.00 S Luckhaus (Leipzig)	FBP
Ternary allot solidification

18.00- .	FBP
Summing up of the day's activities

Wednesday 2 August

Equisingularity of complex sets and mappings II

09.00-10.00 T Gaffney (Boston)	SGT

09.30-10.45 L Katgerman, P Quintela, P Davidson (Delft, Santiago de Compostela and Cambri)	FBP
Aspects of aluminium casting

Non-isolated singularities II

10.30-11.30 D Siersma (Utrecht)	SGT

11.45-13.00 D Jenkins (CSIRO)	FBP
Coke ovens

Newton talk: Zariski-Lefschetz type theorems for non-generic pencils

11.45-12.30 M Tibar (Lille)	SGT

14.00-18.00 J Hinch, S Rogers (Cambridge and Alcan International Ltd)	FBP
Hot tearing

14.00-18.00 P Davidson, V Voller (Cambridge and Minnesota)	FBP
Freckles

14.00-18.00 J Ockendon, P Quintela, S Rogers (Oxford, Santiago de Compostela and Alcan)	FBP
Butt curl

The geometry of families of singular curves II

14.00-15.00 G-M Greuel, C Lossen (Kaiserslautern)	SGT

Bifurcation and topology of meromorphic functions I

15.30-16.30 I Luengo (Madrid)	SGT

18.00- .	FBP
Summing up of the day's activities

Thursday 3 August

Non-linear sections of complete intersections I

09.00-10.00 J Damon (Chapel Hill)	SGT

09.30-11.00 A Lacey, A Movchan (Heriot-Watt and Liverpool)	FBP
Electrode damage and fracture

Hodge theoretic invariants of singularities I

10.30-11.30 J Steenbrink (Nijmegen)	SGT

11.30-13.00 V Voller (Minnesota)	FBP
Exudation and periodic segregation

Newton talk: Cohen-Macaulay modules over surface singularities

11.45-12.30 Y Drozd (Kiev)	SGT

14.00-15.30 N Barton, P Davidson (CSIRO and Cambridge)	FBP
Coherency, Davidson paradox

Guest lecture: The Poincare' series of a quasihomogeneous surface singularity

14.00-15.00 W Ebeling (Hannover)	SGT

Bifurcation and topology of meromorphic functions II

15.30-16.30 I Luengo (Madrid)	SGT

16.00-17.00 K Parrott (Greenwich)	FBP
Level set methods

17.00-18.00 W Engl (Linz)	FBP
Numerical modelling of hot rolling and other topics left over from Wednesday

Friday 4 August

Non-linear sections of complete intersections II

09.00-10.00 J Damon (Chapel Hill)	SGT

09.30-10.45	FBP
Wind up session

Topological invariants dual to singular sets I

10.30-11.30 V Vassiliev (Steklov)	SGT

11.00-12.00	FBP
More wind up and post mortem

Newton talk: The geometric minimal model of an analytic space

11.45-12.30 S Ishii (Tokyo)	SGT

Hodge theoretic invariants of singularities II

14.00-15.00 J Steenbrink (Nijmegen)	SGT

Guest lecture: Applications of global theory of singularities

15.30-16.30 A Szu"cs (Budapest)	SGT

Monday 7 August

Singularities and non commutative geometry I

09.00-10.00 JP Brasselet (CNRS)	SGT

Classification of map-germs, and their applications I

10.30-11.30 JW Bruce (Liverpool)	SGT

Newton talk: The elliptic genus of a singular variety

11.45-12.30 B Totaro (Cambridge)	SGT

Topological invariants dual to singular sets II

14.00-15.00 V Vassiliev (Steklov)	SGT

Guest lecture: Variance of the spectral numbers and Frobenius manifolds

15.30-16.30 C Hertling (Bonn)	SGT

Tuesday 8 August

Classification of map-germs, and their applications II

09.00-10.00 JW Bruce (Liverpool)	SGT

Singularities of contact with flags & their vanishing topology I

10.30-11.30 V Zakalyukin (Moscow SAI)	SGT

Newton talk: Moduli spaces for space curve singularities

11.45-12.30 A Fru"hbis-Kru"ger (Kaiserslautern)	SGT

Guest lecture: Proof of gradient conjecture of R. Thom

14.00-15.00 K Kurdyka (Chambery)	SGT

Contributed papers: Deforming Stanley-Reisner rings (Room 1)

15.30-16.10 J Christophersen (Oslo)	SGT

Contributed papers: Thom-Sebastiani theorem for constructible sheaves (Room 2)

15.30-16.10 J Schu"rmann (Hamburg)	SGT

Contributed papers: Local topology of maps C $^{2n}$ to C $^{3n}$ (Room 1)

16.20-17.00 K Houston (Leeds)	SGT

Contributed papers: On a class of representations of the fundamental group of the complementary of a singular hypersurface (Room 2)

16.20-17.00 O Neto (Lisboa)	SGT

Wednesday 9 August

Topological zeta functions and motivic integration I

09.00-10.00 J Denef (Leuven)	SGT

Singularities and non commutative geometry II

10.30-11.30 JP Brasselet (CNRS)	SGT

Newton talk: Newton filtration, graded algebras and ideals (Room 1)

11.45-12.30 M Saia (Sao Carlos)	SGT

Newton talk: Singularity formulas for Smale invariants of homotopy spheres (Room 2)

11.45-12.30 T Ekholm (Stanford)	SGT

Stokes sets and their relation to combinatorics, K-theory and some other fields I

14.00-15.00 Y Baryshnikov (Eindhoven)	SGT

Demonstration of "SINGULAR"

15.30-16.30 GM Greuel, A Fru"hbis-Kru"ger, C Lossen (Kaiserslautern)	SGT

Thursday 10 August

Singularities of contact with flags and their vanishing topology II

09.00-10.00 V Zakalyukin (Moscow SAI)	SGT

Topological zeta functions and motivic integration II

10.30-11.30 J Denef (Leuven)	SGT

Newton talk: Calculation of Thom polynomials for group actions

11.45-12.30 R Rimanyi (Budapest)	SGT

Unitary reflection groups related to functions with cyclic symmetry

14.00-15.00 V Goryunov (Liverpool)	SGT

14.30-15.30 A Tsinober (Tel Aviv)	QVD
Self amplification of velocity derivitives in turbulent flows

Contributed papers: Real tangent cones and Nash spaces (Room 1)

15.30-16.10 L Wilson (Hawaii)	SGT

Contributed papers: Moduli spaces of polynomial mappings in two variables up to right equivalence (Room 2)

15.30-16.10 J De Bobadilla (Nijmegen)	SGT

Contributed papers: Monodromy of elliptic surfaces (Room 1)

16.20-17.00 M Lo"nne (Hannover)	SGT

Contributed papers: Euler characteristic of the spaces of real meromorphic functions (Room 2)

16.20-17.00 S Shadrin (Moscow)	SGT

Friday 11 August

Stokes sets and their relationship to combinatorics, K-theory and some other fields II

09.00-10.00 Y Baryshnikov (Eindhoven)	SGT

Guest lecture: Simple singularities and complex reflections

10.30-11.30 P Slodowy (Hamburg)	SGT

11.30-12.30 A Gilbert (Exeter)	QVD
Vortices and magnetic field lines in classical fluids

Newton talk: Monodromy conjecture for some surface singularities

11.45-12.30 A Melle (Madrid)	SGT

Problems session

14.00-15.00	SGT

Guest lecture: Hodge structures at infinity and monodromy of polynomials

15.30-16.30 A Dimca (Bordeaux)	SGT

Monday 14 August

Welcome by Dr Robert Hunt (Deputy Director)

08.55-09.00	QVD

Introduction to superfluidity and turbulence

09.00-10.00 C Barenghi (Newcastle)	QVD

Vortex reconnections in superfluid helium

10.00-11.00 J Koplik (City College of New York)	QVD

10.00-11.00 P Norbury (Adelaide)	SGT
Topological invariants of affine plane curves

Reconnections in MHD flows

11.30-12.00 A Brandenburg (Nordita & Newcastle)	QVD

11.30-12.30 M Tibar (Lille)	SGT
Models of fibers, $\gamma*$-sequences, equi-singularity and vanishing cycles

Nonlocality in fluid turbulence

12.00-12.30 A Tsinober (Tel Aviv)	QVD

Superfluid vortex filaments

14.00-15.00 D Samuels (Newcastle)	QVD

14.00-16.00	SGT
Open discussions: Zeta functions, local and global, old and new results

Magnus force on a vortex and Aharonov-Bohm effect in superfluids

15.00-15.30 E Sonin (Hebrew)	QVD

Longitudinal and transverse forces on vortices in two-fluid hydrodynamics

15.30-16.00 DJ Thouless (Washington)	QVD

Energy exchange between the normal fluid and the superfluid

16.30-17.00 O Idowu (Newcastle)	QVD

The geometry of magnetic and vortex reconnections

17.20-17.40 G Hornig (Bochum)	QVD

Current sheet formation near an hyperbolic magnetic neutral line

17.40-18.00 B Shivamoggi (Central Florida)	QVD

Tuesday 15 August

Experiments on superfluid turbulence

09.00-10.00 RJ Donnelly (Oregon)	QVD

TBA

10.00-10.30 PJR Tabeling (ENS Paris)	QVD

10.00-11.00 H Hamm (Munster)	SGT
Absence of vanishing cycles

Experiments on quantized turbulence at Mk temperatures

10.30-11.00 P McClintock (Lancaster)	QVD

The drag crisis on a sphere in flowing HeII

11.30-12.00 SW Van Sciver (Florida)	QVD

11.30-12.30 M Oka (Tokyo)	SGT
Fundamental group of tame torus sextics and some remarks

An oscillating microsphere in superfluid helium4 at mK temperature

12.00-12.30 W Schoepe (Regensburg)	QVD

Grid generated turbulence

14.00-14.30 J Niemela (Oregon)	QVD

14.00-15.00 S Tyurina (Pedagogical Institute)	SGT
Kontsevich integral of toric knots

Intermittent switching between potential flow and turbulence in superfluid helium at mK temperatures

14.30-15.00 M Niemetz (Regensburg)	QVD

Applications of superfluid helium in large scale superconducting systems

15.00-16.00 SW Van Sciver (Florida)	QVD

15.15-16.15	SGT
Open discussions: Geometric vanishing cycles at infinity and related Picard-Lefschetz formulas

The generation and detection of turbulence in superfluid 3He

16.30-17.00 S Fisher (Lancaster)	QVD

3D superfluids made of sub monolayer He films

17.00-17.30 M Kubota (Tokyo)	QVD

Stability of helium II flow

17.30-18.00 SP Godfrey (Newcastle)	QVD

Wednesday 16 August

An introduction to the theory of superfluid turbulence

09.00-10.00 WF Vinen (Birmingham)	QVD

Vortex tangle dynamics without mutual friction in superfluid helium4

10.00-10.30 M Tsubota (Osaka)	QVD

10.00-11.00 C Gorzel (Munster)	SGT
Le numbers and singularities at infinity

Turbulence in a system of quantum vortices

10.30-11.00 D Kivotides (Newcastle)	QVD

The experimental evidence for vortex nucleation and vortex pinning and collapse in superfluid helium4

11.30-12.30 E Varaquaux (Paris-Sud)	QVD

11.30-12.30 S Gusein-Zade (Moscow)	SGT
Integration with respect to the Euler characteristic over the space of functions and the Alexander polynomial of a plane curve singularity

What DC flow tells us about vortex nucleation

14.00-14.30 RE Packard (Berkeley)	QVD

From vortex reconnection to quantum turbulence

14.30-15.00 T Lipniacki (Warsaw)	QVD

Using the HVBK model to investigate the Couette flow of helium II

15.00-15.30 KL Henderson (University of the West of England)	QVD

Modified HVBK model

15.30-16.00 D Holm (Los Alamos)	QVD

Stochastic dynamics of vortex loops

16.30-17.10 S Nemirowskii (Novosibirsk)	QVD

Applications of Gaussian model of the vortex tangle in the superfluid turbulent HeII

17.10-17.30 S Nemirowskii (Novosibirsk)	QVD

Interpretation of the Oregon grid experiment

17.30-18.00 L Skrbek (Oregon)	QVD

Thursday 17 August

The NLSE model of superfluid helium

09.00-10.00 PH Roberts (UCLA)	QVD

Vortex nucleation and critical speed for a flow passing around a disk in the NLSE

10.00-10.30 LPS Rica (LPS & ENS Paris)	QVD

10.00-11.00 A Campillo (Vailladolid)	SGT
The singular scheme of foliations on the projective plane

Vortex structures in dilute quantum fluids

10.30-11.00 C Adams (Durham)	QVD

Subcritical dissipation in three dimensional superflows

11.30-12.00 C Huepe (Chicago)	QVD

11.30-12.30 P Cassou-Nogues (Bordeaux)	SGT
A$_{k}$-singularities for curves of a given degree

Vortices in nonlocal condensate model of superfluid helium

12.00-12.30 N Berloff (UCLA)	QVD

Hidden symmetry of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates: results and a mystery

14.00-14.30 L Pitaevskii (Trento)	QVD

14.00-16.00	SGT
Open discussions: Problems and conjectures on polynomial and meromorphic maps

Spin up and vortex creation in a rotating cylinder

14.30-15.00 V Steinberg (Weizmann)	QVD

Tropic and linking measures for vortex tangles

15.00-15.30 R Ricca (UCL)	QVD

The Kibble mechanism vortex lines as models of cosmic strings

15.30-16.00 P McClintock (Lancaster)	QVD

Dynamics of superfluid phase transition and superfluid turbulence in two and three dimensions

16.30-17.00 G Williams (UCLA)	QVD

An eddy viscosity model of the dissipative voltage steps in quantum Hall breakdown

17.00-17.30 L Eaves (Nottingham)	QVD

Friday 18 August

Rotating Bose Einstein condensates

09.00-10.00 S Stringari (Trento)	QVD

09.00-12.00	SGT
SGT Seminar

Stability of a vortex in a rotating trapped Bose condensate

10.00-10.30 AL Fetter (Stanford)	QVD

Vortex foramtion and motion in trapped Bose Einstein

10.30-11.00 C Adams (Durham)	QVD

Quantized vorticity in 3He superfluids: structure and dynamics

11.30-12.30 M Krusius (Helsinki)	QVD

Bose condensation and superfluidity in low density helium systems

14.00-14.30 J Reppy (Cornell)	QVD

Weak turbulence theory for the NLSE and GP equations

14.30-15.00 S Nazarenko (Warwick)	QVD

Kinetics of strongly nonequilibrium Bose Einstein condensation

15.00-15.30 B Svistunov (Kurchatov Institute)	QVD

Quantum nucleation of phase slips in Bose-Einstein condensates

15.30-16.00 HB Buchler (ETH Zu"rich)	QVD

Vortices in metastable He4 films

16.30-17.00 R Blossey (Essen)	QVD

Atomic Bose condensate with a spin structure: the use of Bloch state

17.00-17.30 H Kuratsuji (Kusatsu)	QVD

Close

17.30-17.35 RJ Donnelly (Oregon)	QVD

Monday 21 August

14.00-15.00 A Tsinober (Tel Aviv)	QVD
Superfluid versus "ordinary" turbulence

Tuesday 22 August

10.00-11.00 Y Pomeau (ASCI, Orsay)	QVD
Vortices in quantum systems, lessons from the first principles

11.30-12.30 L Pismen (Technion)	QVD
Vortex nucleation and the NLSE model

14.00-15.00 M Polyak (Tel Aviv)	SGT
Configuration spaces and degrees of mappings

15.15-16.30	SGT
Programme Discussion with the Semester Participants

Wednesday 23 August

10.00-11.00 J Niemela (Oregon)	QVD
Ultra high turbulent convection

12.00-13.00 B Svistunov (Kurchatov Institute)	QVD
Scenario of decay of superfluid turbulence at T=0

14.00-15.00 V Matveev (IHES)	SGT
Topology and singularities of geodesically equivalent metrics

Thursday 24 August

14.00-15.00 P Giblin (Liverpool)	SGT
The geometry of the medial axis

15.15-16.15 S Natanzon (Independent University, Moscow)	SGT
tba

Tuesday 29 August

14.00-15.00 H Hamm (Muenster)	SGT
On embedded Morse theory for real and complex analytic spaces

15.15-16.15 S Anisov (Instituto Superior Tecnico)	SGT
Towards lower bounds for S. Matveev complexity of 3-manifolds

Thursday 31 August

14.00-15.00 V Sedykh (Gubkin University)	SGT
On vertices of a submanifold in Euclidean space

15.15-16.15 M Polyak (Tel-Aviv)	SGT
Finite type invariants of 3-manifolds

Tuesday 5 September

14.00-15.00 K Houston (Leeds)	SGT
Classification and topology of map-germs C$^{n}$ \mapsto C$^{p}$ (n$<$p) of corank 1 and A$_{e}$ codimension 1

16.30-17.30	GTF
Discussion Meeting

Wednesday 6 September

11.30-12.30 S Friedlander (Illinois)	GTF
Linear and nonlinear instability for ideal fluids

14.30-15.30 S Kida (NIFS)	GTF
Geometric structure of turbulent flow fields

Thursday 7 September

14.00-15.00 I Bogaevsky (Independent University, Moscow)	SGT
Lagrange mappings of the open Whitney umbrella

Monday 11 September

Opening

09.20-09.30	GTF

Classical knot theory (1)

09.30-10.30 C Weber (Geneva)	GTF

Differential geometry of curves and surfaces (1)

11.00-12.00 R Langevin (Bourgogne)	GTF

An introduction to topological fluid mechanics: the legacy of Kelvin and Tait (1)

14.00-15.00 R Ricca (UCL)	GTF

Topology and 2D fluid motions: chaotic stirring (1)

15.30-16.30 PL Boyland (Florida)	GTF

Tuesday 12 September

Introduction to geometry of fluid flows and dynamical systems (1)

09.30-10.30 T Kambe (Tokyo)	GTF

Geometric structures and manifolds (1)

11.00-12.00 G Misiolek (Notre Dame)	GTF

Classical knot theory (2)

14.00-15.00 C Weber (Geneva)	GTF

14.00-15.00 G Ishikawa (Sapporo)	SGT
Versality theorem for non-linear subspaces of map-germs

Differential geometry of curves and surfaces (2)

15.30-16.30 R Langevin (Bourgogne)	GTF

Wednesday 13 September

Fluid invariants and magnetic relaxation (1)

09.30-10.30 HK Moffatt (Newton Institute)	GTF

Introduction to knot theory and its applications (1)

11.00-12.00 L Kauffman (Illinois at Chicago)	GTF

Topological magnetohydrodynamics: applications of magnetic helicity (1)

14.00-15.00 M Berger (UCL)	GTF

Geometric structures and manifolds (2)

15.30-16.30 G Misiolek (Notre Dame)	GTF

16.40-17.40 S Kida (NIFS, Japan)	GTF
Special Seminar The geometry of ``elementary vortices" in turbulence

Thursday 14 September

Topology and 2D fluid motions: vortex dynamics (2)

09.30-10.30 P Boyland (Florida)	GTF

Introduction to knot theory and its applications (2)

11.00-12.00 L Kauffman (Illinois at Chicago)	GTF

An introduction to topological fluid mechanics: from magnetic knots to complex systems (2)

14.00-15.00 R Ricca (UCL)	GTF

14.00-16.30	SGT
SGT Seminar

Introduction to geometry of fluid flows: and dynamical systems (2)

15.30-16.30 T Kambe (Tokyo)	GTF

16.40-17.40 P Boyland (Florida)	GTF
Special Seminar Covering spaces and differential forms

Friday 15 September

Topological methods in hydrodynamics (1)

09.30-10.30 B Khesin (Toronto)	GTF

Fluid dynamical systems exactly reducible to a finite system of ODEs (1)

11.00-12.00 H Aref (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)	GTF

Global geometry of the group of volume preserving diffeomorphisms (1)

14.00-15.00 A Shnirelman (Tel Aviv)	GTF

Topological magnetohydrodynamics: applications of braid theory (2)

15.30-16.30 M Berger (UCL)	GTF

Monday 18 September

Fluid invariants and magnetic relaxation (2)

09.30-10.30 HK Moffatt (Newton Institute)	GTF

Fluid dynamical systems exactly reducible to a finite system of ODEs (2)

11.00-12.00 H Aref (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)	GTF

Global geometry of the group of volume preserving diffeomorphisms (2)

14.00-15.00 A Shnirelman (Tel Aviv)	GTF

Topological aspects of fast dynamos (1)

15.30-16.30 S Childress (Courant Institute)	GTF

Tuesday 19 September

Fluid dynamics from A to B (1)

09.30-10.30 E Spiegel (Columbia)	GTF

Introduction to Arnold stability theory (1)

11.00-12.00 V Vladimirov (Hong Kong)	GTF

A history of the hydrodynamic blow-up problem (1)

14.00-15.00 R Pelz (Rutgers)	GTF

14.00-15.00 L Dung-Trang (Marseille)	SGT
Blowing-up surface singularities

Euler singularities from the Lagrangian viewpoint: some early efforts (2)

15.00-16.00 S Childress (Courant Institute)	GTF

Poster Session

16.30-17.30	GTF

Wednesday 20 September

Topological methods in hydrodynamics (2)

09.30-10.30 B Khesin (Toronto)	GTF

Introduction to Arnold stability theory (2)

11.00-12.00 V Vladimirov (Hong Kong)	GTF

The geometry of reconnection (1)

14.00-15.00 G Hornig (Bochum)	GTF

Are ``all" ideal fluid flows unstable?

15.30-16.30 S Friedlander (Illinois-Chicago)	GTF

16.40-17.40 S Dobrokhotov (Russian Acad. Sciences)	GTF
Special Seminar Hugoniot-Maslov chains, solitary vortices and typhons' trajectories

17.00-18.00 TBA	GTF
Special Seminar

Thursday 21 September

Topology and the CH problem

09.30-10.30 A Ruzmaikin (JPL, Pasadena)	GTF

Geometry of singularities for the multi-dimensional Burgers equation (1)

11.00-12.00 U Frisch (Nice)	GTF

14.00-15.00 M Zhitomirskii (Technion)	SGT
Integral curves in contact 3-space and their Cartau prolongations

15.30-18.00	SGT
SGT Seminar

15.30-16.30 B Dubrovin (Trieste)	SGT
Introduction to Frobenius manifolds

Friday 22 September

Fluid dynamics from A to B (2)

09.30-10.30 E Spiegel (Columbia)	GTF

Geometry of singularities for the multi-dimensional Burgers equation (2)

11.00-12.00 U Frisch (Nice)	GTF

The geometry of reconnection (2)

14.00-15.00 G Hornig (Bochum)	GTF

14.00-15.00 M Van Manen (Utrecht)	SGT
Legendrian properties of conflict sets

A history of the hydrodynamic blow-up problem (2)

15.00-16.00 R Pelz (Rutgers)	GTF

15.30-17.00 B Dubrovin (Trieste)	SGT
Lectures on Frobenius manifolds

Round Table discussion

16.30-17.30	GTF

Closing

17.30-17.40	GTF

Monday 25 September

09.30-09.45 Welcome	SGT

Fuchsian inequalities on a compact Kohler manifold

09.45-10.30 A Bolibroukh (Moscow)	SGT

Singularities in contact geometry

11.00-11.45 M Chaperon (Paris-7)	SGT

Equivalence problem in non-holonomic Riemannian geometry

11.50-12.35 B Kruglikov (Tromsoe, Norway)	SGT

Linear systems: normal forms and unfoldings

14.00-14.45 I Hoveijn (Warwick)	SGT

Analytic linearizability of resonant vector fields

14.50-15.35 JB Goncalves (Porto)	SGT

Steady-state branching in reversible equivariant vector fields

16.00-16.45 P-L Buono (Warwick)	SGT

Hamilton - Jacobi equation and minimizers for Random Lagrangian systems

16.50-17.35 R Iturriaga, K Khanin (Cambridge)	SGT

Tuesday 26 September

Isoenergetical structure of an integrable 3 d.o.f. system near its singular leaves

09.00-09.45 L Lerman (Nizhny-Novgorod)	SGT

Singularities of the Liouville foliation for geodesically equivalent metrics

09.50-10.35 V Matveev (Cambridge & Chelyabinsk)	SGT

Singularity theory and monodromy

11.00-11.45 R Cushman (Utrecht)	SGT

A stratification of the momentum map

11.50-12.35 J Montaldi (INLN)	SGT

Normal forms of singularities of relative minima and parametric optimization

14.00-14.45 A Davydov (Vladimir)	SGT

The zoology of spheres, caustics and wave fronts in subriemannian geometry

14.50-15.35 JP Gauthier (Dijon)	SGT

15.00-16.00 L Kauffman (Illinois)	GTF
Tutorial on knot theory

Cartan prolongation, Legendre curves, Gursat flags and related problems

16.00-16.45 M Zhitomirskii (Haifa)	SGT

Singularities of stability boundaries of linear Hamiltonian systems

16.50-17.35 A Mailybaev, A Seyranian (Moscow)	SGT

Special Seminar A continuation of Professor Dubrovin's lectures on Frobenius manifolds

18.00-19.00 B Dubrovin (SISSA)	SGT

Wednesday 27 September

Characteristic classes of Lagrangian singularities

09.00-09.45 M Kazarian (Moscow)	SGT

Constraints on Legendre knots that come from Lagrangian intersections

09.50-10.35 E Ferrand (Grenoble)	SGT

Arnold's 4-cusp conjecture and decomposition of fronts

11.00-11.45 Y Chekanov, P Pushkar (Moscow)	SGT

Contact directional fields and Legendrian singularities in the global geometry of submanifolds

11.50-12.35 MC Romero-Fuster (Valencia)	SGT

Strong stability in nonlinear wave equations near the fundamental linear mode

14.00-14.45 NN Nekhoroshev (Moscow)	SGT

14.45-15.30 V Zeitlin (Paris-6)	GTF
Nonlinear geostrophic adjustment, fronts and frontogenesis

On the Hamiltonian structure of reversible normal forms

14.50-15.35 J Lamb (Imperial)	SGT

Geometric aspects of resonance tongues in Hill's equation with periodic and quasi-periodic forcing

16.00-16.45 H Broer (Groningen)	SGT

The inverted pendulum: a singularity theory approach

16.50-17.35 M Van Noort (Groningen)	SGT

Thursday 28 September

Persistence of extremal relative equilibria in symmetric Hamiltonian systems

09.00-09.45 T Tokieda (Montreal)	SGT

Bifurcation of Hamiltonian relative equilibria

09.50-10.35 M Roberts (Warwick)	SGT

Stability of Hamiltonian relative equilibria

11.00-11.50 C Wulff (Berlin)	SGT

Semi-quantum description of formation and rearrangements of molecular energy bands

11.50-12.35 B Zhilinskii (Littoral)	SGT

Versality of Legendrian and Grassmannian fronts

14.00-14.45 G Ishikawa (Sapporo)	SGT

Vertical points of symplectic relations

14.50-15.35 S Janeczko (Warsaw)	SGT

Developable surfaces and Legendre line congruence

16.00-16.45 S Izumiya (Sapporo)	SGT

Relationship between the discriminant curve and other bifurcation diagrams

16.50-17.35 P Simon, H Farkas, E Hild (Budapest)	SGT

Friday 29 September

Some invariants of admissible homotopies of space curves

09.00-09.45 V Sedykh (Moscow)	SGT

Bifurcations of the inflections of solutions of implicit differential equations

09.50-10.35 R Uribe-Vargas (Paris-7)	SGT

Propagation of linear waves in 2- and 3-dimensional spaces

11.00-11.45 I Bogaevski (Moscow)	SGT

Computation of Morse spectrum of dynamical systems

11.50-12.35 G Osipenko (St Petersburg)	SGT

14.00-15.00 R Pasmanter (KNMI)	GTF
The search for a metric in compressible flows

Special Seminar A continuation of Professor Dubrovin's lectures on Frobenius manifolds

15.30-17.00 B Dubrovin (SISSA)	SGT

Monday 2 October

14.00-15.00 A Gilbert (Exeter)	GTF
Spiral windup in two-dimensional vortices

Tuesday 3 October

14.00-15.00 D Chillingworth (Southampton)	SGT
Geometry and dynamics for a nematic liquid crystal in a shear flow

15.00-16.00 P Boyland (Florida)	GTF
TBA

15.30-17.00 B Dubrovin (SISSA)	SGT
A continuation of Professor Dubrovin's lectures on Frobenius manifolds

Wednesday 4 October

14.30-15.30 P Davidson (Cambridge)	GTF
Angular momentum, turbulence, and the Geodynamo

15.30-17.00 B Dubrovin (SISSA)	SGT
A continuation of Professor Dubrovin's lectures on Frobenius manifolds

Thursday 5 October

11.00-12.00 M Iima (Hokkaido)	GTF
A model of flapping flight in 2D using a discrete vortex method

11.00-12.30 B Dubrovin (SISSA)	SGT
A continuation of Professor Dubrovin's lectures on Frobenius manifolds

Monday 9 October

14.00-15.00 S Cowley (Cambridge)	GTF
Vortex sheet and boundary layer singularities

Tuesday 10 October

11.00-12.00 L Kauffman (Illinois)	GTF
Tutorial on knot theory (cont)

15.30-17.00 B Dubrovin (SISSA)	SGT
A continuation of Professor Dubrovin's lectures on Frobenius manifolds

Wednesday 11 October

14.30-15.30 J Mestel (Imperial)	GTF
Helical flows applied to haemodynamics

15.30-17.00 B Dubrovin (SISSA)	SGT
A continuation of Professor Dubrovin's lectures on Frobenius manifolds

Thursday 12 October

Ideal knots and physical knots

10.00-11.00 A Stasiak (Lausanne)	GTF

Field theory realizations of knots and links

11.00-12.00 A Niemi (Uppsala)	GTF

Knotted phase singularities in motionless media

12.00-13.00 A Winfree (Arizona)	GTF

Electromagnetic knots

14.00-15.00 A Fernandez-Ranada (Complutense)	GTF

Global curvature, thickness, ideal shapes and self-contact

15.00-16.00 J Maddocks (EPFL)	GTF

Knots in DNA

16.30-17.30 DW Sumners (Florida State)	GTF

Friday 13 October

Can you tie a knot with 1ft of 1in (or 12cm of 1cm) rope?

09.30-10.30 R Kusner (Amherst)	GTF

Symbiologic, rational knots and DNA

11.00-12.00 L Kauffman (Chicago)	GTF

On energy of knots

14.00-15.00 J O'Hara (Tokyo Metropolitan)	GTF

A history of Kelvin's vortex knots

15.00-16.00 R Ricca (UCL)	GTF

Physical knots: radiating tubes, occlusion, ropelength, and the n-body problem

16.30-17.30 G Buck (Saint Anselm College)	GTF

Round table discussion

17.30-18.30	GTF

Tuesday 17 October

14.00-15.30 C Hertling (Bonn)	SGT
Frobenius manifolds and singularities

15.00-16.00 P Boyland (Florida)	GTF
Tutorial on differential geometry

16.00-17.00 D Van Straten (Mainz)	SGT
Curves on surface singularities

Wednesday 18 October

14.00-15.00 E Kuznetsov (Landau)	GTF
Breaking of vortex lines - a new mechanism of collapse in hydrodynamics

Thursday 19 October

14.00-15.00 S Shnirelman (Tel-Aviv)	GTF
Weak solutions of the incompressible Euler equations

14.00-15.30 C Hertling (Bonn)	SGT
Frobenius manifolds and singularities

Monday 23 October

Welcome

09.45-10.00	SGT

F-Manifolds and Coxeter groups

10.00-11.00 C Hertling (Bonn)	SGT

Relative Lefshetz action and Gromov-Witten invariants

11.30-12.30 A Takahashi (Kyoto)	SGT

Deformations of the root systems and WDVV equations

14.00-15.00 A Veselov (Loughborough)	SGT

Grassman like varieties and mirror symmetry

15.30-16.30 D Van Straten (Mainz)	SGT

Topological field theory in integrable systems

17.00-18.00 B Dubrovin (Trieste)	SGT

18.00-19.00 Wine Reception	SGT

Tuesday 24 October

Frobenius manifolds and moduli spaces for singularities

10.00-11.00 C Hertling (Bonn)	SGT

Feynman diagrams and degrees of maps

11.30-12.30 M Polyak (Tel-Aviv)	SGT

14.00-15.00 A Shnirelman (Tel-Aviv)	GTF
Weak solutions of incompressible Euler equations II

Flat invariants for elliptic Lie algebras

14.00-15.00 K Saito (Kyoto)	SGT

Loop groups, bundles over elliptic curves and elliptic singularities

15.30-16.30 P Slodowy (Hamburg)	SGT

Witten conjecture and the string solution of Gelfand-Dickey hierarchy

17.00-18.00 S Natanzon (Bonn)	SGT

Wednesday 25 October

Exotic quantum field theories from singularities

10.00-11.00 D Morrison (Duke)	SGT

Symmetries of Painleve' equations, Okamoto-Painleve' pairs and rational double points

11.30-12.30 M-H Saito (Kobe)	SGT

14.00-15.00 G Misiolek (Nortre-Dame)	GTF
The Cauchy problem for an integrable shallow water equation

Large complex structure limits of K3 surfaces

14.00-15.00 P Wilson (Cambridge)	SGT

Automorphic forms as invariants

15.30-16.30 V Gritsenko (Lille)	SGT

Thursday 26 October

Topological and Lagrangian torus fibrations

10.00-11.00 M Gross (Warwick)	SGT

Semi-infinite variations of Hodge structures and WDVV equations

11.30-12.30 S Barannikov (Paris)	SGT

12.00-13.00 P Boyland (Florida)	GTF
Tutorial on differential geometry III

Quantum periods and mirror symmetry in higher dimensions

14.00-15.00 S Barannikov (Paris)	SGT

Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality and the Hitchin system

15.30-16.30 M Thaddeus (New York)	SGT

Rational surfaces with many nodes

17.00-18.00 I Dolgachev (Ann Arbor)	SGT

Friday 27 October

A new perspective on Calabi-Yau geometry

10.00-11.00 D Morrison (Duke)	SGT

Exotic quantum field theories from branes

11.30-12.30 D Morrison (Duke)	SGT

Locally symmetric arrangements in locally symmetric varieties and their occurrence in algebraic geometry

14.00-15.00 E Looijenga (Utrecht)	SGT

About classification of Lorentzian Kac-Moody algebras of the rank three

15.30-16.30 V Nikulin (Liverpool)	SGT

Monday 30 October

14.00-15.00 SC Cowley (Imperial)	GTF
A tutorial on current sheets

Tuesday 31 October

14.00-15.00 R Ghrist (GATECH)	GTF
Contact topology and Beltrami fields

14.00-15.30 VA Vassiliev (Steklov Math Inst)	SGT
Ramified integrals

16.00-17.30 B Shapiro (Stockholm)	SGT
Hurwitz spaces and Hodge integrals

Wednesday 1 November

14.00-15.00 C Barenghi (Newcastle)	GTF
Vortex knots and tangles

14.00-15.30 VA Vassiliev (Steklov Math Inst)	SGT
Ramified integrals

Thursday 2 November

11.00-12.30 R Ghrist (GATECH)	GTF
Tutorial on differential geometry IV

14.00-15.30 VA Vassiliev (Steklov Math Inst)	SGT
Ramified integrals

Friday 3 November

11.00-12.00 Y Ponti (Nice)	GTF
Dynamo action in flows driven by shear and convection

16.00-17.30 B Shapiro (Stockholm)	SGT
Hurwitz spaces and Hodge integrals

Monday 6 November

14.00-15.30 K Khanin (Hewlett Packard Senior Research Fellow)	GTF
Multi-dimensional Burgers equation and dynamical systems

Tuesday 7 November

11.00-12.30 Y Brenier (CNRS Nice)	GTF
Approximate geodesics on groups of volume preserving maps

14.00-15.30 M Brons (Denmark)	GTF
Stagnation points in point vortex flow and the topology of vortex breakdown

14.00-15.30 VA Vassiliev (Steklov Math Inst)	SGT
Ramified integrals

Wednesday 8 November

14.00-15.30 H Aref (Illinois)	GTF
Vortex statics

14.00-15.30 VA Vassiliev (Steklov Math Inst)	SGT
Ramified integrals

16.00-17.30 N Nekrasov (IHES)	SGT
Non-commutative instantons and Hilbert schemes

Thursday 9 November

11.00-12.30 R Ghrist (GATECH)	GTF
Tutorial on differential geometry V

14.00-15.30 VA Vassiliev (Steklov Math Inst)	SGT
Ramified integrals

Friday 10 November

11.00-12.30 K Bajer (Warsaw)	GTF
The influence of a vortex on magnetic fields and passive scalars

Monday 13 November

14.00-15.30 R Ghrist (GATECH)	GTF
Tutorial on Morse theory

Friday 17 November

15.00-16.00 T Lipniacki (IFTR, Warsaw)	GTF
Vortex motion in superfluids

Monday 20 November

Opening

09.30-09.40 C Sparrow (Cambridge)	GTF

Orbit invariants in hydrodynamical systems

09.40-10.25 B Khesin (Toronto)	GTF

Geometrical aspects of dynamical systems: a vortex filament and KdV system

10.25-10.40 T Kambe (Tokyo)	GTF

Topological shocks in BRIMS

10.40-11.10 K Khanin (Hewlett-Packard Senior Research Fellow)	GTF

One-dimensional rotating shallow water equations: geometry, exact solutions and singularities

11.30-12.15 V Zeitlin (Paris VI)	GTF

Infinite dimensional regular Lie groups and equations on them

14.00-14.45 P Michor (E. Schroedinger Inst.)	GTF

Some recent results on the Cauchy problem for the Camassa-Holm equation

14.45-15.30 G Misiolek (Notre Dame)	GTF

15.00-16.30 V Nikulin (Liverpool)	SGT
On the classification of hyperbolic root systems

Kinetic theory in cosmology

15.45-16.30 E Spiegel (Columbia)	GTF

Tuesday 21 November

Riemannian approach to Hamiltonian chaos and applications to statistical mechanics

09.30-10.15 M Pettini (Firenze)	GTF

Three-dimensional motion of a vortex filament and its relation to an integrable hierarchy

10.15-11.00 Y Fukumoto (Kyushu)	GTF

On the motion of fluids with surface tension

11.30-12.15 D Ebin (SUNY)	GTF

Dynamical stability and the topology of 2D fluid mixing

14.00-14.45 P Boyland (Florida)	GTF

Relaxation of chaotic fields - current sheets and vortex sheets

14.45-15.30 K Bajer (Warsaw)	GTF

Variational and multisymplectic integration

16.00-16.45 J Marsden (Caltech)	GTF

Asymptotic potential theory for slender tubes, intrinsic kinematics and minimal surfaces

16.45-17.30 R Ricca (UCL)	GTF

Wednesday 22 November

11.00-12.00 D Holm (Los Alamos)	GTF
"Modelling fluids with the Euler-Poncare' approach I"

14.00-15.30 C Vizman (Timisoara)	GTF
Superconductivity equation as geodesic equation; stability

14.00-15.30 V Nikulin (Liverpool)	SGT
Dynamics of the automorphism group of a K3 surface

Thursday 23 November

11.00-12.00 I Klapper (Montana)	GTF
Formation of isolated singularities in ideal MHD

14.00-15.00 D Holm (Los Alamos)	GTF
"Modelling fluids with the Euler-Poncare' approach II"

14.00-15.00 S Izumiya (Hokkaido)	SGT
Singularities of hyperbolic Gauss maps

Friday 24 November

Deformations of simplicial complexes

10.00-11.00 K Altman (Berlin)	SGT

The symmetric product of spaces and multi symmetric polynomials

11.15-12.15 V Buchstaber (Moscow)	SGT

A'Campo-Gusein-Zade diagrams as partially ordered sets

14.00-15.00 G Ilyuta (Moscow)	SGT

Progress on real stratified spaces

15.15-16.15 D Trotman (Marseille)	SGT

Equisingularity of families of equidimensional spaces: first steps

16.45-17.45 T Gaffney (Boston)	SGT

Saturday 25 November

The dimension of the mu-constant stratum of a plane curve singularity

10.00-11.00 Th.de Jong (Saarbruecken)	SGT

Braid monodromy invariants of generic coverings of the plane

11.15-12.15 V Kulikov (Moscow)	SGT