Practical information on the Banach Center
Accommodation outside the Banach Center
Scientific
Committee:
J-P. Brasselet (Luminy), Yu. Chekanov (Moscow),
V. Goryunov (Liverpool), S. Gusein-Zade (Moscow), S. Izumiya (Sapporo), G.
Ishikawa (Sapporo), M. Kazarian (Moscow), J. Kijowski (Warsaw), R. Ribotta (Orsay),
M. Saia (Sao Carlos), N. Schwartz (Passau), D. Trotman (Marseille), M.
Zhitomirskii (Haifa), Y. Yomdin (Rehovot)
Advisory
Committee:
V.I. Arnol`d (Moscow), M. Berry (Bristol), V.
Vassiliev (Moscow)
Organizing
Committee:
J.W. Bruce (Liverpool), S. Janeczko (Warsaw), D. Siersma (Utrecht), M. Soares Ruas (Sao
Carlos), V. Zakalyukin (Moscow)
Local organizers:
W. Domitrz, B. Janisz, M. Zajac
Proposed
research topics include:
I. Local models
- Lagrangian and legendrian singularities
- Asymptotic behaviour around caustics and wavefronts
- Singular symplectic, contact and Poisson spaces
- Systems of rays, optical caustics
- Bifurcations of caustics and wavefronts
- Singularities of J-holomorphic curves
- Differential geometry of singularities
II.
Symplectic invariants
- Vassiliev invariants, Gromov-Witten invariants
- Lagrangian cobordism invariants
- Symplectic capacities
- Singular reduction
- Hamiltonian systems and their generalizations
- Symplectic singularities of curves and surfaces
- Applications to natural and physical systems
Proceedings:
We plan to publish the Banach Center Volume Proceedings. As a rule we would not
want regular papers to exceed 12 pages and survey papers to exceed 20 pages. We
will
encourage the researchers to deliver special historical review lectures and submit
them to the proceedings.
Proceedings of Caustics '98 (abstracts only)
Proceedings of Caustics '02 (full texts available)
