This workshop, held at the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM) from the 12th to the 17th of July 2010, will contain the main themes of Tudor Ratiu´s work.

The common thread running throughout is the use of geometric methods which serve to unify these diverse disciplines and help bring a wide variety of scientists and mathematicians together, speaking a language which encourages cross-fertilization. Tudor Ratiu is a unique figure in this regard as his work has significantly influenced distinctly separate communities of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers? The workshop will bring together the world’s leading figures in each of these theme areas who will give invited lectures.

One of the many appealing aspects of this event is its huge and premium quality roster of speakers:

• Anton Alekseev (Université de Genève)
• Anthony Bloch (University of Michigan)
• Henrique Bursztyn (IMPA)
• Marco Castrillón López (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
• Hernán Cendra (Bahía Blanca, Argentina)
• Pascal Chossat (Nice, France)
• Francesco Fassò (Padova)
• Laszlo Feher (Szeged)
• François Gay-Balmaz (CNRS, Paris)
• Mark Gotay (PIMS, University of British Columbia)
• Darryl Holm (Imperial College)
• Johannes Huebschmann (Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille)
• Frances Kirwan (University of Oxford)
• Jair Koiller (Fundação Getulio Vargas)
• Franco Magri (Università di Milano)
• Peter Michor (Universität Wien)
• James Montaldi (University of Manchester)
• Geneviève Raugel (CNRS, Orsay)
• Miguel Rodríguez Olmos (University of Manchester)
• Alan Weinstein (University of California, Berkeley)