 Yeah, so welcome you all to the school and dynamics geometry and integral systems I'm the head of the math section at ICTP and my name is Fernando Rodrigo Villegas I started as a head this January and been here only a couple years Not quite two yet So I thought I'll just say a few words about ICTP for those who are Never been here or maybe those who've been here as well The stuff in the section mathematics at the moment, this is only four of us that we could You see here and So my main point in this Introduction is a plea for your help As you may know ICTP was founded 1964 by Abdul Salam So this year it marks the 50th anniversary Which will celebrate in October with a big big party It's a tripartite is run at the moment by a tripartite agreement between the government of Italy UNESCO and the International Agency Atomic energy 85% of the budget for ICTP comes from the Italian government So the help we need is really To to continue doing what we do in the best way we can In 50 years the ICTP has been associated to a lot of people some of you have been here they've been coming often for a long time and well we We do many different things to help science in the developing world and Often what I find is the most difficult thing is to actually reach the people that could most benefit for From the things that we do and that's where You can come in So let me just quickly run through a few of the things that ICTP does in particular Associated to the To the mathematics section so starting from From the Bottom so to speak the Lowest level that we are directly involved with in in scientific level is the program of the diploma program Which you can find here postgraduate program and this Brings in ten about ten students every year In mathematics and in ten in other sections of physics So it's about a total of 40 every year and they come from the From developing countries and the stood in a fairly strict sense So it gives the opportunity for people who don't have it in their own home countries to Reach a level Ideally that after a year they're prepared to start a PhD program and in in a good research program And so people come from many different parts of the world and here it is Crucial that this program is known in and in a swipe Way as possible and for this We we would be grateful if you Could help us identify people that can come so it roughly works as a first year Graduate student graduate school in a PhD program so the courses are very intense at the level of roughly the last year of undergraduate or graduate school say in the United States and There's a very rigorous program Which the students Go through I mean they they work very hard and many of them indeed go on to do a PhD from here somewhere else I Be happy to talk more about this any of these things with any of you individually as we go up We have a program of postdocs and I can come back and as well as visitors in The in visitors to the math section in particular you can see here our Current postdocs as well as some long-term visitors and short-term visitors visitors typically will come for up to say three months and Work here with either someone in the section or perhaps a group of visitors could come together Various combinations I should say that Forgot to mention that starting from two or three years ago two of those who come for the diploma program have the option to We take two of those who would like to stay on and do a PhD here in Tresde they could either do a So it's a joint program with CISA the other mathematical Institute here in in Tresde and They could either work with someone at ICTP Or work with someone in CISA But this is a joint program So they actually get a PhD degree from CISA ICTP Given the nature of this institution cannot grant a degree but CISA of course can is a Teaching institution as well as a research one so Next up another very important Program that ICTP runs is the program of associates which At the moment is also partially funded by the Simons Foundation And this is possibly is one of the oldest programs and possibly one of the most useful for people in the developing world Gives them the chance to come Visit ICTP in mostly get away from their duties back home and have a Quiet time to do the work. So either they can work on their own It's a fairly free Program or they can come at the time where there is a school like this one and take advantage of Coming and attending something happening here or possibly collaborating with somebody here And there's a junior and senior and regular and so on. There's a various flavors of this And this again is something that is I think important to reach everybody that would benefit for such a program and made them aware of the existence of this and Encourage them to apply I find that this is Extremely useful for people that may live far away from from strong research Centers and this keeps them is a way to keep in touch and Also a way to focus on your research exclusively Salam it was a Pakistani researcher who Felt very strongly that he had a hard time going back to Pakistan and continue his his his work once he graduated And one of his his vision was to a program of this sort of associates that allowed people to continue to be in touch with with research internationally and so this is a program that that we value very much at ICTP within that I Don't know how much of this legalese will Will you you'll care about but there is within that a system where actually individual institutions can have an agreement that ICTP this call this federation scheme that also goes back to Salam and It's a sort of a shared scheme where the local institution pays for example the the travel and ICTP pays the lodging and So that's another thing that if you think your institution could benefit from army such an agreement You can try to talk to the head of the Institute and suggest a possible scheme of this sort Basically, there are many many different aspects of how ICTP does what it does and One thing that I found most remarkable about coming here is the flexibility Once the the goal has been set up that the goal of ICTPs to help science is the developing world basically anything goes And so if you actually have ideas of something completely different that is here please feel free to talk to any one of us and I'm sure we can find a way to to Implement it or it may just be that it's in somewhere in this website, but you haven't found it Because there's just way too many things for example There is a there's a step program for doing a joints PhD For those that are in experimental science is the trail program that ICTP pays to to have People work at Italian laboratories and so on. This is way Many different sorts of ways that I should be does Try to fulfill its goal and finally the last thing is of course the activities like the one you're currently sitting on These activities are planned way in advance We just finished the a month ago the selection for 2015 The deadline for application activities is February of the year before so That's something you may want to also consider for 2016 17 If you think of an activity that you would like to host You have to have here. This is something you can consider applying for it It would be a matter of sort of setting Your goals contacting some of us to perhaps help with the formulating the Given it shape and then I go through the application process So this is more or less all I had to say I'm sorry that the the weather gods In Italy seem to be somewhat distracted with the World Cup Last week it was in the 30s and everybody was on the beach from here to Trieste, but not today Maybe better for mathematics. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much It is a Good morning everybody It is my great pleasure to address you on behalf of the directors of organizers of This event. This is a fifth Meeting of geometry then dynamics and integrable systems. We call this a GDIS GDIS 2014 is the first time that we have together school and international conference going after that So first I would like to thank our hosts the ICTP The Mathematics section of ICTP professor Villegas the head of the section who addressed you just now the members of The section professor Lothar Goche who is a local organizer professor Luzato who also took Part in the organization and he will also deliver a lecture later So let me say a few few words about About this this conference is we started this about seven years ago as a modest attempt of our group Doing integrable systems geometry integral systems in Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and then with a Big support of our colleagues and friends from Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences We started this in 2008 the first conference held in Belgrade then the second one 2010 again in Serbia then the third one When to to Lisbon has been organized by Mathematical Physics group of University of Lisbon the fourth one was Organized in Russia and now we especially pleased that we have such an honor to be hosted by such a prestigious international institution like ICTP is Personally, I'm always glad to be back in Trieste. I spent some lovely years as a former researcher of CISA and I also Participated in this he mentioned by Professor Villegas. I was a Associate of ICTP and I must admit that it was really Very nice opportunity to have this peaceful time for getting some things At this home institution and can focus here on science and so it's really something worth to to be involved in so Let me say if you few to few technical few technical words as you have already seen the program We are especially thankful to two distinguished lectures. We have Professor Marcelo Viana from Impa Rio de Janeiro Brazil and professor Sergei Tabaschenko from Penn State University Both of these places, you know are very famous for also not only for mathematics I mean Rio de Janeiro and Penn State, but also for football or different kinds of football Now of course this European version of football is is more popular and I must say that I Have to to bring to you the message from one of the organizers mrs. Kutumobilo who said that since we have this Destruction from from from the sea and from World Cup She will do her special efforts to check the presence especially in the afternoon So I have to ask all participants to take this into account So finally let me Let me Send you my Send the best regards from other organizers who are not present at the moment Professor Kozlov and Borisov from Russia who will who will come and Be active in the second week and professor Dubrovina who has been very active in selecting participants, but due to some Some commitments with his major project in Russia He's unable to take more active part in this in this event. Finally, I have to mention that with the pleasure that Of course, ICTP is the main sponsor of this event But there is another major sponsor This is National Sounds Foundation from the United States and we are of course very grateful to all To all sponsors and all people who helped in organization of this event. Finally, I must say I was really pleased to to pass through this list of participants and There is a 107 participants coming from 43 countries from all six Continents and I can read the country's Bulgaria Senegal Turkey Benin Macedonia Madagascar Afghanistan Indonesia Sweden Slovenia Pakistan Peru China Cameroon Vietnam Tunisia Austria Korea Georgia Armenia Island Poland Mexico Ukraine Sudan Guinea India Morocco Uzbekistan Argentina Iran Romania Togo Jordan Italy Portugal Australia France Brazil United States Germany and the organizers mostly come from Russia and Serbia so this impressive list of countries is impressive list of of People coming from North South East where this is something which became possible thanks to our host to ICTP and it's really a very important Mission for the development of science. So let's thank our hosts and let's greet our lecturers. Thank you very much as Final moment of this first first introduction. Let me say that today we have a special privilege and pleasure that at 430 there will be a special Lecture delivered by by professor Wierkowski. So instead of it's a So it's 430 in this room. We will have this special special lecture. There are some tutorials also announced and it depends on the Assessment of the lectures if they think they need these tutorials they will use them Otherwise, there is more time for discussions and individual work. So thank you very much