Gloria Mari Beffa

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 376, fourth semester Honors Calculus

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Recent Publications

with their files

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

Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 247-1 (2010), pp 163-188.

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

with Peter Olver, Regular and Chaotic Dynamics 15 (2010) 532-550.

Moving frames, Geometric Poisson brackets and the KdV-Schwarzian evolution of pure spinors,

Accepted for publication in the Annales de l'Institut Fourier.

Geometric Poisson brackets on Grassmannians and conformal spheres,

with Mike Eastwood, accepted for publication in the Procceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburg.

On generalizations of the pentagram map: discretizations of AGD flows,

submitted.

A completely integrable flow of non-radial curves on the light cone,

with Tess Anderson, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 44 (2011) 445203.

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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