Gloria Mari Beffa

Associate Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics Department, UW--Madison
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-1634

Email to: maribeff(at)math.wisc.edu

Education: Ph.D., Mathematics, 1991,
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities .

Currently teaching

Math 222
Second semester Calculus
Math 522
Second semester Advanced Calculus

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Recent Publications

with their files

Integrable Systems Associated to Curves in Flat Galilean and Lorentzian Manifolds,

with S. Squires, submitted.

On bi-Hamiltonian flows and their realizations as curves in real homogeneous manifold,

submitted.

Geometric Poisson brackets in in flat semisimple homogenous manifolds,

The Asian Journal of Mathematics, v. 12, 1, (2008) 1-33.

Projective-type differential invariants and geometric curve evolutions of KdV-type in flat homogeneous manifolds,

Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Tome 58,4 (2008) 1295-1335.

Hamiltonian evolutions of curves in classical affine geometries,

Physica D (2008), doi:10.1016/j.physd.2008.08.009.

Remarks on KdV-type Flows on Star-Shaped curves,

with Anna Calini and Tom Ivey, accepted for publication in Physica D.

Research Interests

Geometrical aspects of infinite dimensional Integrable systems, Geometrical reduction and symetries, Infinite dimensional Poisson geometry, KdV and Toda Hamiltonian structures, Adler-Gel'fand-Dikii brackets, Differential Invariants and Invariant Differential evolutions, specially their relationship with infinite Hamiltonians, Conformal Geometry, Projective Geometry and Mathematics in general.

For a complete list of papers and more professional information

Please, have a look at my Curriculum Vitae

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