ALAN WEINSTEIN IN UTRECHT

Utrecht University, March 2003

Alan Weinstein will be awarded a honorary doctorate by the University of Utrecht on the 26th of March (the Dies Natalis of the university; Eredoctoraten 2003). The "honorary promotors" are J.J.Duistermaat and I. Moerdijk. During that week there will be several activities related to Alan's visit here, closing with a one day of talks in his honour. Here are the more formal activities:

March 26: The official ceremony will take place in the Domkerk in Utrecht (Domplein, near the Dom, on the left of the Academiegebouw), and it starts at 15:00. The ceremony is open, but you need an invitation (you can write to P. Grondman at grondman@math.uu.nl and ask for one).

March 27: On March 27, Alan Weinstein will give a talk in the " Stafcolloquium". The talk will start at 15:30, in room K11 ( Mathematics Department), and will be preceded by tea and coffee (15:00, Eigenruimte).

March 28: We will have a one day symposium in honour of Alan Weinstein. The invited speakers are: R. Cushman (Utrecht University), Simone Gutt (Universite Libre de Bruxelles), Kirill Mackenzie (University of Sheffield) and Nguyen Tien Zung (Universite Toulouse). Here is the programme for the day:

10:15--11:00	Coffee, tea, and cookies
11:00--11:45	Richard Cushman	Survey on reduction theory
12:00--12:45	Simone Gutt	Natural star products, symplectic connections and group actions
12:45--15:00	Lunch
15:00--15:45	Kirill Mackenzie	Poisson groupoids - an unexpected success?
15:45--16:15	Coffee and tea.
16:15--17:00	Tien Zung	Proper groupoids and Poisson convexity

All talks will be given in K11. For more informations, please contact crainic@math.uu.nl.

Home page of Alan Weinstein

Publications of Alan Weinstein

watch some of Alan's talks at the MSRI (click on the "56kps video" on the top of the pages): From Riemann geometry to Poisson geometry and back again (Chern Symposium, MSRI, March 6, 1998), Nonassociative geometry? (February 20, 2000), Dirac Structures and their Quantization (May 17, 2001).