The 1st summer school on geometry of differential equations
The summer school will take place 17-21 September 2012 and will be held in the Institute of Mathematics of Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic.
Applications should be sent to: school-gde@math.slu.cz
There is no formal deadline for applications, but please contact the organizers as soon as possible, because of limited capacity of the school.
There will be two parallel courses:
Basic Course: Symmetry and conservation laws
(Raffaele Vitolo, University of Salento, and Giovanni Moreno, Silesian University in Opava)
- Jet spaces
- Differential equations
- Symmetries, conservation laws and their computation
- Applications of symmetries and conservation laws
Advanced Course: Recursion operators
(Joseph Krasil'shchik, Silesian University in Opava and Moscow Independent University, and Alexander Verbovetsky, Moscow Independent University)
- Coverings
- Nonlocal symmetries
- Recursion operators and their computation
- Examples
- Hereditary property of recursion operators and related concepts
The basic course is aimed at the beginners, with the pace and style of presentation to match. The advanced course is aimed at the students who are already familiar with the contents of the basic course.
The courses will provide students with a comprehensive presentation of the respective subjects, and introduce them to the basic motivations, methods and results of the relevant field of study. The participants will also be informed about the open problems in the field.
The courses will include training sessions, in the course of which which the participants will learn to use the software for the computer-aided calculation of symmetries and conservation laws, resp. of coverings and recursion operators.
The Summer School will take place in the North-Eastern part of the Czech Republic (the exact location will be announced later) and will last for five days with a total of 40 academic hours of lectures and training sessions.
The teaching will be in English and will take place in the form of lectures in the morning and training sessions in the afternoon.
In the course of the training sessions the participants will solve (sets of) problems given to them and submit their solutions to the instructor who will provide advice and feedback on these if need be.
The successful participants will receive a certificate; the latter will be awarded on the basis of performance at the training sessions.
Participation in the school is free of charge.
Travel and subsistence costs are to be covered by the participants themselves.
This School is the first of three summer schools on the geometry of differential equations supported by the European Social Fund under the project CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0002.
Two further summer schools on similar subjects will take place in 2013 and 2014.
Announcement (in Czech): http://projects.math.slu.cz/RVKMU/docs/ls-dgr-2012.pdf