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to Dynamical Systems by Wayne Nagata (UBC), Maciej
Krupa (Groningen), Langford, and others; and Hamiltonian
Systems and Hamiltonian Bifurcations by Richard Cushman
(Utrecht) and Jerrold Marsden. There were two focused
workshops: Conservative Systems and Quantum Chaos
(October 21–25), organized by Cushman and R.H. Gooding
(RAE, U.K.) with a series of lectures by Michael Berry
(Bristol) on quantum chaos; and Normal Forms and
Homoclinic Chaos (November 8–15; organizers, W. Langford
and W. Nagata).
The presentations in the latter
workshop were collected in Volume 4 of Fields Institute
Communications (Normal Forms and Homoclinic Chaos,
American Mathematical Society, 1995, ed. W.F. Langford and
W. Nagata).
In the winter semester, again there were two graduate
courses.
One was on Global Dynamics, Phase Space
Transport, Orbits Homoclinic to Resonances and Applications,
presented by Stephen Wiggins (Caltech). While still in
residence at the Fields Institute, Wiggins transformed his
lectures into a book, which became Volume 1 of the new Fields
Institute Monographs series (American Mathematical Society,
1993). The second course was on Dynamic Bifurcations with
Symmetry, organized by Martin Golubitsky (Houston) and Ian
Stewart (Warwick). It was intended that this course would be
developed also into a Fields Institute Monograph. However,
when it was nearly written, a computer system crash during
a system backup destroyed most of the files for the book.
Eventually, Golubitsky and Stewart rescued their research and
published it as The Symmetry Perspective: From Equilibrium
to Chaos in Phase Space and Physical Space (Birkhauser,
2002).
In February 1993, there was a workshop organized by
M. Golubitsky, W. Langford, and W. Nagata on Pattern
Formation and Symmetry Breaking. Short courses also