Previous Special Year Seminar

We consider the Restricted Planar Elliptic 3 Body Problem, which models the Sun, Jupiter and an Asteroid (which we assume that has negligible mass). We take a realistic value of the mass ratio between Jupiter and the Sun and their eccentricity...

In 1964 Arnold constructed an example of instabilities for nearly integrable systems and conjectured that generically this phenomenon takes place. There has been big progress attacking this conjecture in the past decade. Jointly with Ke Zhang we...

Both of these talks will be useful preparation for Helmut Hofer's up coming mini-course on polyfold theory on April 4th and 5th.