2001 IMA PI Summer Program for Graduate Students on

Poisson and Quantum Structures"

University of Cincinnati

1999 IMA PI Summer Program for Graduate Students:
"Dynamical Systems & Applications"

Pennsylvania State University

June 7 - July 2, 1999

The summer 1999 program, DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS , was held at Pennsylvania State University. Mark Levi was the organizer. A schedule and list of topics is as follows.

Lecture Program for June 7-July 2, 1999
Week	Lecturer	Topic
June 7-11	Helmut Hofer Courant Institute	Hamiltonian Dynamics, Variational Principles and Symplectic Invariants
June 14-18	Dima Burago Pennsylvania State University	Geometric Introduction to Control Theory
June 21-25	Anatole Katok Pennsylvania State University	Introduction to the Modern Theory of Dynamical Systems
June 28-July 2	Jeff Xia Northwestern	Celestial Mechanics

The program involves two hours of lectures each morning followed by informal or problem sessions in the afternoons. Every Monday evening there is a social event. The intense month long program allows the students to learn from and interact with the visiting speakers and one another. A certain camaraderie and sense of inclusion is fostered among the students by the chance to work closely with distinguished mathematicians over a lengthy period in a warm social and intellectual atmosphere. Student evaluations of the program are very positive. This is a good example of an excellent program available through the PIs that no one institution could provide.

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