MS38 ~ Wednesday, May 24, 1995 ~ 10:00 AM
Applied Hamiltonian Systems
Many problems of classical and modern physics can be formulated as Hamiltonian systems. The speakers in this minisymposium will present four different problems in conservative mechanics along with four different solution approches. They will discuss applications to celestial mechanics, quantum mechanics, DNA supercoiling, and shadowing properties of geodesics.
Organizer: Kenneth R. Meyer, University of Cincinnati
- Shadowing Properties of Geodesics in Hedlund's Metric and Motions in Bumpy Potentials
- Mark Levi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Continuation, Symmetry and a Boundary Value Problem for a Hamiltonian System Modeling DNA Supercoiling
- Y. Li and John Maddocks, University of Maryland, College Park
- Classical Periodic Orbits and Atomic Absorption Spectra, Observations of Order, Chaos and Bifurcations in a Quantum System
- John Delos, College of William and Mary
- Integral Manifolds of the Spatial Three Body Problem
- Chris McCord, University of Cincinnati; Kenneth Meyer, Organizer; and Q. Wang, University of Cincinnati
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