Journal

On September 25 we are organizing an one-day conference on the occasion of the thesis defense of Olga Lukina. Olga has completed her thesis on «Geometry of torus bundles in integrable Hamiltonian systems».

On August 26 I presented the work with Dmitrií Sadovskií and Olga Lukina on the hydrogen atom in electric and magnetic fields during the Hamiltonian systems session of the Dynamics Days Europe 2008 conference that took place in TU Delft. The Hamiltonian systems session was organized by Henk Broer.

Last week I presented the work with Henk Broer and Easwar Subramanian on pulse coupled oscillator networks during the mini-symposium “Coupled Cell Networks” in the “5th European Congress of Mathematics”. The mini-symposium was organized by Peter Ashwin, Ana Dias, and Jeroen Lamb.

The paper with Henk Broer and Easwar Subramanian on «Heteroclinic cycles between unstable attractors» has been accepted for publication in Nonlinearity.

Between 25 and 28 November I will visit the Institut Carnot de Bourgogne at Dijon and I will give a seminar on «Standard and fractional monodromy in physical systems».

Update: The visit has been postponed to January.

The paper with Henk Broer and Easwar Subramanian on «Robustness of unstable attractors in arbitrarily sized pulse-coupled networks with delay» has been accepted for publication in Nonlinearity.

From May 22 until June 2 I am visiting Université du Littoral at Dunkerque. Then, from June 16 until June 30 I will be in Montreal for the NATO ASI school on «Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems and Applications».

The paper with Dmitrií Sadovskií and Boris Zhilinskií on «Classification of perturbations of the hydrogen atom by small static electric and magnetic fields» has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society A.

I had the great luck of learning classical mechanics in a course taught by Nikos Voglis. He was then professor at the Department of Physics at the University of Athens and I followed his course as a second year student. He was an inspiring teacher and he commnunicated in the most skillful way the beauty and elegance of classical mechanics. So skillful, indeed, that after this course I knew that I wanted to work on classical mechanics from that moment on.