Integrable systems in Suzuka

We will hold the following workshop on the occasion of Professor Pol Vanhaecke's visit to Japan.

Added on February 20, 2011 : Slides of Ichikawa's talk avilable.
Added on February 7, 2011 : Program in pdf format avilable.
Added on January 25, 2011 : All attendees are cordially invited to join the conference dinner on February 17. Please resister by sending an e-mail to Rei Inoue by February 9. (Click here for the same announcement in Japanese.)
Added on January 4, 2011 : Information on access and accommodation (in Japanese)
Date : February 17-18, 2011
Venue : Suzuka University of medical science, Shiroko Campus
Speakers : Pol Vanhaecke (Poitiers), Takashi Ichikawa (Saga), Rei Inoue (Suzuka), Reiho Sakamoto (Tokyo), Takahiro Shiota (Kyoto), Teruhisa Tsuda (Kyushu), Yukihiro Uchida (Kyoto)

Program pdf
17 (Thu)
14:00-15:00 Pol Vanhaecke (Poitiers) Action-angle variables for integrable systems on Poisson manifolds
15:15-16:15 Takahiro Shiota (Kyoto) Difference equations and the Schottky problem
16:30-17:30 Teruhisa Tsuda (Kyushu) UC hierarchy, monodromy preserving deformation and hypergeometric function
18:00- Workshop dinner
18 (Fri)
10:00-11:00 Takashi Ichikawa (Saga) Characterizing Jacobians via nonarchimedean theta functions slides
11:15-12:15 Yukihiro Uchida (Kyoto) Valuations of Somos 4 sequences and local heights on elliptic curves
13:45-14:45 Rei Inoue (Suzuka) Introduction to tropical Jacobians and theta functions
15:00-16:00 Reiho Sakamoto (Tokyo) Box-Basket-Ball Systems
16:00- Free discussion

This workshop is financially supported by Inamori Foundation, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research (22654001) and Grand-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (22740111).
Organizers : Rei Inoue (Suzuka), Takao Yamazaki (Tohoku)