Plenary speakers

• Sergio Blanes (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain) — Geometric integrators: composition, splitting and Lie group methods — [Talk]
• Henrique Bursztyn (IMPA, Brazil) — Quasi-Poisson geometry, Dirac structures and moment maps — [Talk]
• Hernán Cendra (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina) — Dirac manifolds and the Dirac theory of constraints
• Michael Forger (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) — Approaches to a covariant hamiltonian formulation of classical field theory — [Talk]
• Alberto Ibort (Universidad Carlos III, Spain) — Optimal control of DAE's: aplications to spin systems — [Talk]
• Jair Koiller (Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil) — Dynamics of vortices on surfaces — [Talk]
• Fátima Silva Leite (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal) — Geometric nonlinear control and applications — [Talk]
• David Martín de Diego (CSIC, Spain) — The geometry of nonholonomic mechanical systems — [Talk]
• Juan Carlos Marrero (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain) — Nonholonomic mechanics: a Lie algebroid perspective — [Talk]
• Jorge Moiola (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina) — On the use of a frequency domain method for classifying the oscillatory behavior in nonlinear control problems — [Talk]
• Ernesto Pérez Chavela (UAM, Mexico) — The Saari's conjecture in celestial mechanics — [Talk]
• Mariano Santander (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain) — Geometric aspects of Integrability: an elementary overview — [Talk]

Invited talks

• Alejandro Cabrera (Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina, and IMPA, Brazil) — Base-controlled mechanical systems and geometric phases — [Talk]
• Paula Balseiro (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina) — Generalized non holonomic systems on Lie algebroids —[Talk]
• Luis García Naranjo (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) — Reduction of almost Poisson brackets for mechanical systems with nonholonomic constraints — [Talk]
• Santiago Capriotti (Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina) — EDS and Dirac theory of constraints — [Talk]
• Sergio Grillo (Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina) — Generalized nonholonomic mechanics and the control of servomechanisms — [Talk]
• Miguel Rodríguez Olmos (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) — Nonlinear stability of Hamiltonian relative equilibria in simple mechanical systems — [Talk]
• Diana Sosa (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain) — Vakonomic mechanics on Lie affgebroids — [Talk]
• Marila Etchechoury (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina) — Examples of the Dirac theory of constraints for Dirac manifolds and further generalizations — [Talk]
• Sandro Romero (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil) — The relation between covariant and functional Hamilton equations— [Talk]
• Leandro Gomes (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, and University of California, Berkeley) — Polysymplectic and multisymplectic geometry of fiber bundles — [Talk]
• Sergio S. Rodrigues (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, and SISSA, Trieste, Italy) — Controllability of Navier-Stokes equations by means of finite-dimensional forcing — [Talk]

Poster session

The meeting will include a poster session. Those participants interested in presenting a poster (in English, maximum size: A1 or 6 x A4) should send an abstract to gmcnetull.es before May 15th, 2008. They will be informed by email whether it was accepted.

List of posters

• Explicit solution for the Zhukovski-Volterra gyrostat (Inna Basak)
• Geometrical structures of classical general relativistic phase space given by gravitational and electromagnetic fields (Josef Janyška, Marco Modugno)
• Reduction of discrete nonholonomic mechanical systems with symmetry (Javier Fernández, Cora Inés Tori, Marcela Zucalli)
• Lagrange-d'Alembert-Poincaré equations by stages (Hernán Cendra, Viviana Díaz)
• Symmetries in k-symplectic field theories (Narciso Román Roy, Modesto Salgado, Silvia Vilariño)
• Abnormal trajectories in affine connection control systems (María Barbero Liñán, Miguel C. Muñoz Lecanda)
• Berry phases quantum transition and Chern numbers (Hugo Contreras, Andrés Reyes)
• Jet Prolongations of fibered supermanifolds (Michael Krbek)
• Constraint algorithm for generalized Dirac structures (Germán Zorba)
• An extension of the SHAKE and RATTLE methods for nonholonomic mechanics (Sebastián Ferraro, David Iglesias, David Martín)
• Examples of optimal momentum map calculation (María Eugenia García)
• Integrability of Lie systems in classical and quantum mechanics (José Cariñena, Javier de Lucas)