3. Postdoctoral Program - MSRI

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW REPORT
December 2009
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Subject: postdoc report
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:45:11 -0500
From: Abraham D. Smith
To: Hélène Barcelo
Here is my summary of my activities this semester:
From August to December 2009, my main activity was to continue my project on the
geometry of hydrodynamic PDEs, producing the paper "Integrable GL(2) Geometry
AND Hydrodynamic Partial Differential Equations" arXiv:0912.2789v1. In September, I
gave a talk on this paper at the CIRGET Geometry and Topology Seminar at UQAM.
Also, I have corresponded with Dennis The regarding generalizations and applications of
this work, and our collaborative research will begin in earnest after the holidays. I have
also begun initial exploration of several other branches of research in the geometry of
differential equations.
Aside from pure research, I have attended many seminars and participated in weekly
meetings with my mentor, Niky Kamran, and his other postdocs and graduate students.
In December 2009, I attended the "Careers in Academia" workshop at AIM.