Note: all talks have 40 mins duration.



TIME Wednesday August, 3rd Thursday, August 4th Friday, August 5th
08:30 Registration
09:15 Welcome words
9:30 - 10:10

Minimal Energy Configurations of Gravitationally Interacting Rigid Bodies
Rick Moeckel, University of Minnesota

Coriolis forces in non–rotating frames and Gaussian curvature.
Mark Levi, Pennsylvania State University

Problems, progress, and theories of somethings inspired by RM.
Kurt M. Ehlers, Truckee Meadows Community College

10:10 - 10:20 BREAK BREAK BREAK
10:20 - 11:00

Celestial Encounters
Andreas Knauf, Universit ät Erlangen-Nürnberg

Skewers
Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University

Limaçon metric on sunflowers
Christophe Gole, Smith College

11:00 COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10

From the Twisting Somersault to the 3-Body Problem
Holger Dullin, University of Sydney

Linearization of the isotropy subalgebra  of a transitive Lie algebra of vector fields
Misha Zhitomirski

Stochastic Soliton Scattering
Darryl D Holm, Imperial College London

12:10 - 12:20 BREAK BREAK BREAK
12:20 - 13:00 

Geometric, Algebraic, and Analytic Properties of Figure-Eight Solution
Toshiaki Fujiwara, Kitasato University

Continuous choreographies
Hector Sanchez-Morgado, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Constrained and Stochastic Variational Principles for Dissipative Equations
Tudor S Ratiu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

13:00 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
15:00 - 15:40

Geometric methods in the N-body problem
Martha Alvarez-Ramirez, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

Central Configurations, Equivariant Fixed  Points and Mutual Differences
Davide Ferrario, University of Milano-Bicocca

A first attempt at sub-Riemannian celestial mechanics.
Corey Shanbron, California State University, Sacramento

15:40 COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 16:40

Some Curvature Computations for the Strong Force N-Body Problem.
Connor Jackman , University California Santa Cruz

Magnetic traps in 2 dimensions
Gabriel Martins  

 Gil Bor (personal impressions/end)
19:00   Conference Dinner