C.R.A.N.S SEMINAR SERIES 2001 - 2002

Place: Seminar room 342. Mathematics / Biology building 


Time:                Wednesday, January 17, 6:00 p.m.

Speaker:            Tassos Bountis, Mathematics Department

Title:                  The Dynamics of Paradoxical Games: Some Provocative Thoughts about (National and International) Conflicts Between 2 Contestants


Time:                Wednesday, January 31, 6:00 p.m.

Speaker:            S. Pnevmatikos, Mathematics Department

Title:                  The Role of Singularities in Theoretical Physics


Time:                Wednesday, February 7, 6:00 p.m.

Speaker:            S. Pnevmatikos, Mathematics Department

Title:                  Hilbert's Nullstellensatz. A Technique of Removing Singularities


Time:                Wednesday, February 14, 6:00 p.m.

Speaker:            S. Pnevmatikos, Mathematics Department

Title:                 Nullstellensatz. Morphology of Nullification Locus of Ideals


Time:                Wednesday, March 28, 6:00 p.m.

Speaker:            S. Pnevmatikos, Mathematics Department

Title:                 Singularities of Infinite Dynamical Systems


Time:                Wednesday, May 2, 6:30 p.m.  

Speaker:           Mr. Adrian Cimponeriu, Department of Medicine

Title:                Exploring heart vulnerability. Ischemia and the effect of antiarrhythmic drugs on cardiac vulnerable period . Part I


Time:                Wednesday, May 9, 6:30 p.m.

Speaker:         Mr. Adrian Cimponeriu, Department of Medicine

Title:               Exploring heart vulnerability. Ischemia and the effect of antiarrhythmic drugs on cardiac vulnerable period. Part II


Time:              Wednesday, May 16, 6:30 p.m.

Speaker:        Mrs. Laura Cimponeriu, Department of Medicine

Title:              Phase-locking and synchronization in physiological signals analysis


Time:              Wednesday, October 10, 6:00 p.m.

Speaker:        S. Pnevmatikos, Mathematics Department

Title:              A Mathematical Theory of Approximating Functions I


Time:              Wednesday, October 17, 6:00 p.m.

Speaker:         S. Pnevmatikos, Mathematics Department

Title:               A Mathematical Theory of Approximating Functions II


Time:               Wednesday, October 23, 12:00 p.m.

Speaker:         Dr. Wei-mou Zheng, Pekin's Academy of Sciences researcher

Title:                Introduction to Applied Symbolic Dynamics


Time:                Wednesday, October 31, 1:00 p.m.

Speaker:          Dr. Charis Skokos, Academic center of research of Athens

Title:                Study of the Stability Problem of Trojan Asteroids


Time:                Wednesday, November 14, 6:30 p.m.

Speaker:          Pantelis Damianou, Professor, Mathematics Department, University of Cyprus

Title:                Teaching and Research in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the University of Cyprus


Time:                Wednesday, November 21, 6:00 p.m.

Speaker:          Alexandros Leoditsis, Graduate student, University of Ioannina

Title:                Methods of Analyzing and Reducing "Noise" in Chaotic Time Series


Time:               Wednesday, December 5, 6:00 p.m.

Speaker:          Dr. A. Giannakopoulos, University of Warwick

Title:                Soliton Dynamics in Stochastically Perturbed Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations


Time:                Wednesday, December 12,  6:15 p.m.

Speaker:          S. Pnevmatikos, Mathematics Department

Title:                 Contact Geometry and Hamiltonian Mechanics I


Time:                Wednesday, December 19 6:15 p.m.

Speaker:          S. Pnevmatikos, Mathematics Department

Title:                 Contact Geometry and Hamiltonian Mechanics II


Time:                Wednesday, January 9, 2002 6:15 p.m.

Speaker:          Demetrios Hadjiloucas, Post-doctoral Fellow Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester

Title:                 Regularity of invariant graphs over hyperbolic systems


Time:                Wednesday, March 13, 2002 6:15 p.m.

Speaker:          Dr. Christos Efthymiopoulos, Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics, Academy of Athens, and Department of Statistics and Actuary Science, Aegean University

Title:                 (Non-) Convergence properties of normal forms and formal integrals of motion


Time:                Wednesday, March 20, 2002 6:15 p.m.

Speaker:          Tassos Bountis, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras

Title:                 Introduction to Perturbation Theory in Hamiltonian Systems


Time:                Wednesday, March 27, 2002 6:15 p.m.

Speaker:          Tassos Bountis, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras

Title:                 Canonical Perturbation Theory. Action - Angle Variables, Examples


Time:                Wednesday, April 3, 2002 6:15 p.m.

Speaker:          Dr. Charis Skokos, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras

Title:                Lagrangian Mechanics and the Principle of Least Action


Time:                Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:00 p.m.

Speaker:          Dr. Charis Skokos, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras

Title:                Hamilton’s Equations of Motion


Time:                Wednesday, April 17, 2002 6:15 p.m.

Speaker:          Dr. Charis Skokos, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras

Title:                The symplectic formalism of Hamilton’s equations and the Hamilton - Jacobi theory


Time:                Wednesday, May 22, 2002 6:15 p.m.

Speaker:          Dr. Charis Skokos, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras

Title:                Hamilton-Jacobi theory and the action-angle variables