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 221
First semester Calculus

Math 761
Differentiable Manifolds

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Recent Publications

with their files

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

with S. Squires, to appear in Applicable Analysis' special issue on Solitons.

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

submitted.

Poisson structures for Geometric curve flows in semi-simple homogeneous spaces,

with Peter Olver, submitted.

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, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, Volume 238, Issue 8, Pages 788-797 (1 May 2009).

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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