“The
Legacy of William Rowan Hamilton: Symplectic and Contact Geometry
and Hamiltonian Systems”
Friday 30th September and Saturday 1st October 2005
Academy House
Organised by the Royal Irish Academy together with Trinity College
Dublin, The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, the National
University of Ireland, Maynooth.
Supported by Science Foundation Ireland
This symposium is part of a yearlong celebration
of Hamilton events to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Hamilton
www.hamilton2005.ie
Friday 30th September,
10.00am
9.30-10.00am Registration
10.00am Opening: Professor James Slevin, President, Royal
Irish Academy
10.15am Professor Luke Drury, Dublin Institute for Advanced
Studies
A Brief Account of the Life of William Rowan Hamilton
10.35am Dr David Wilkins, School of Mathematics, Trinity College
Dublin
Selected Correspondence between William Rowan Hamilton
and Peter Guthrie Tait
11.00am Coffee Break
11.15am Professor Athanassios Fokas, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, UK
Imaging of the Brain and the Dirichlet to Neumann Map
for Bi-Hamiltonian Systems
12.15pm Discussion
12.30pm Break for Lunch
2.30pm Professor Hansjoerg Geiges, University of Cologne,
Germany
Quaternionic Contact Geometry
3.30pm Discussion
3.45pm Tea Break
4.00pm Professor Adrian Constantin, School of Mathematics,
Trinity College Dublin
Integrable Hamiltonian Systems and Geodesic Flows
5.00pm Discussion
5.15pm Close of Day One
Saturday 1st October 2005
10.00am Professor Graeme Segal, All Souls College, Oxford,
UK
From Hamilton to Quantum Field Theory
11.00am Discussion
11.15am Coffee Break
11.30am Professor Werner Nahm, Dublin Institute for Advanced
Studies
Integrable Systems, 19th and 21st Century
12.30pm Discussion
12.45pm Break for Lunch
2.00pm Professor Simon Donaldson, Imperial College, UK
The Moment Map in Complex Differential Geometry
3.00pm Discussion
3.15pm Tea Break
3.30pm Professor Dusa McDuff, Stonybrook University, New York,
USA
Symplectic Topology Today
4.30pm Discussion
4.40pm Closing Remarks
4.45pm Close of Conference
Conference dinner is at 6.30pm in the The Alexander Hotel
For further information please contact kod@maths.tcd.ie OR
mathdep@maths.tcd.ie
Telephone 003531 6081949
LIST OF HOTELS/ACCOMODATION
Alexander Hotel Merrion Square 01 6073700 €129
(room only)
Dublin 2
Blooms Hotel 6 Anglesea Street 01 3715622 €150
(Double B&B)
Dublin 2 €115 (Single B&B)
Davenport Hotel Merrion Square 01 6073500 €129
(room only)
Dublin 2
Harrington Hall 70 Harcourt Street 01 4753497
€129 (Double B&B)
Dublin 2 €115 (Single B&B)
Jury’s Inn Christchurch Christchurch Place
01 4540000 €130 (room only)
Dublin 8
Jury’s Custom House Inn Custom House Inn
01 6075000 €130 (room only)
Dublin 2
Jury’s Ballsbridge Hotel Ballsbridge 01
6605000 €130 (room only)
Dublin 4
Montclare Hotel Merrion Square 01 6073800 €105
(room only)
Dublin 2
Stauntons on the Green 83 St. Stephens Green
Sth 01 4782300 €152 (Double B&B)
Dublin 2 €96 (Single B&B)
Trinity Lodge 12 Sth. Frederick St. 01 6795044
€171 (Deluxe Double/Twin)
Dublin 2 €135 (Double B&B)
€99 (Single B&B)
