CURRICULUM VITAE

Florin DiacuProfessor of Mathematics

Department of Mathematics and StatisticsUniversity of Victoria

P.O. Box 3045 STN CSCVictoria, B.C.

Canada, V8W 3P4Phone: 1-250-721-6330Fax: 1-250-721-8962

E-mail: diacu@math.uvic.caWeb page: http://www.math.uvic.ca/faculty/diacu/index.html

March 21, 2007

Year of Birth: 1959

Country of Birth: Romania

Nationality: Canadian

Degrees:

— Diploma in Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania,1983.

— Doctor rerum naturarium (Ph.D. in Mathematics), Ruprecht-Karl Uni-versity, Heidelberg, Germany, 1989.

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Positions:

— 1983-1987 Scoala Generala 5, Medias, Romania, Mathematics Teacher.

— 1987-1988 Liceul “Axente Sever,” Medias, Romania, Mathematics Teacher.

— 1988-1989 Institute for Applied Mathematics, Ruprecht-Karls Univer-sitat, Heidelberg, Germany, Forschungs Angestellter (Research Assis-tant).

— 1989-1990 Faculty of Mathematics, Universitat Dortmund, Germany,Wissenschafltlicher Angestellter (Scientific Assistant).

— 1990-1991 Centre de recherches mathematiques, Universite de Montreal,Postdoctoral Fellow.

— 1991-1996 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vic-toria, Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

— 1996-2000 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vic-toria, Associate Professor of Mathematics.

— 2000-present Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University ofVictoria, Professor of Mathematics.

Short-Term Visiting Appointments:

— January 1993, Department of Mathematics, Victoria University of Welling-ton, Wellington, New Zealand.

— April-May 1995, Departamento de Matematicas, Universidad AutonomaMetropolitana, Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico.

— March-April 1998, Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics,University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.

— January-February 1999, Departamento de Matematica, UniversidadeFederal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.

— July-August 2004, Bernoulli Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Administrative Appointments:

— 1999-2003, UVic-Site Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathemat-ical Sciences

— 1996-2001, Member of the Mathematics-Computer-Science NSERC Schol-arships and Fellowships Committee

— 2000 and 2001, Chair of the Mathematics-Computer-Science NSERCScholarships and Fellowships Committee

— 1999-2001, Director of the Canadian Branch for the American RomanianAcademy of Arts and Sciences

— 2003-2004, Board Member, Victoria School of Writing.

Major Fields of Scholarly Interest: celestial mechanics, differential equa-tions, qualitative theory of dynamical systems, chaos, mathematical physics,history of mathematics and astronomy, philosophy of mathematics, teachingand popularization of mathematics.

Membership in Learned and Professional Societies: Fellow of theAmerican Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Canadian Mathemat-ical Society, American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association ofAmerica.

Major Awards:

— The 1996 Prize of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences(from the prize citation:) “in recognition of his outstanding scholarlycontributions to the modern theory of dynamical systems.”

— The 1997 Outstanding Academic Book Award

Language Skills: English, German, French, Romanian, Spanish (reading,writing, speaking); Italian, Portuguese (reading).

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Courses taught at UVic since 1991:

Undergraduate: Calculus, Introductory Differential Equations, Interme-diate Differential Equations, Advanced Differential Equations, Intro-duction to Partial Differential Equations, Mathematics for the Elemen-tary Teacher, Noneuclidean Geometry, History of Mathematics.

Graduate: Dynamical Systems, Advanced Ordinary Differential Equa-tions, Chaos Theory, Topology, Differential Geometry, Partial Differ-ential Equations.

Grants: received since 1991 from NSERC of Canada, University of Victoria,Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.

Publications:

Research papers:

— F. Diacu. Simple properties with cosmogonical interpretations in then-body problem, Gazeta Mat. Metod. Metodol. 3-4 (1984), 118-124 (inRomanian).

— F. Diacu. Collision and escape geometry in the 2-body problem, StudiaUniv. Babes-Bolyai, Mathematica 2, 32 (1987), 22-27.

— F. Diacu. Some regularization in the n-body problem, Astron. Nachrichten308 (1987), 163-168.

— F. Diacu. A rudimentary Tauberian theorem, Babes-Bolyai Univ., Fac.Math. Res. Sem. 2 (1987), 43-46.

— F. Diacu. A collision theorem in the non-gravitational n-body problem,Babes-Bolyai Univ., Fac. Math. Res. Sem. 2 (1987), 35-41.

— F. Diacu and A. Pal. Fundamental results in the theory of real singular-ities in the n-body problem, Babes-Bolyai Univ., Fac. Math. Res. Sem.2 (1987), 3-34.

— F. Diacu and A. Pal. Improbability of some special solutions in then-body problem with generalized attraction law, Babes-Bolyai Univ.,Fac. Math. Res. Sem. 10 (1987), 19-24.

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— F. Diacu, Improbability of collinear solutions in the n-body problem withgeneralized attraction law, Astron. Nachrichten 309 (1988), 233-236.

— F. Diacu. Wintner’s collinear and flat solutions are nowhere dense, Ce-lestial Mechanics 44 (1989), 261-265.

— F. Diacu, The masses in a symmetric solution of the four-body problem,Celestial Mechanics 46 (1989), 27-30.

— F. Diacu. On the planar syzygy solutions of the planar 3-body problem,Celestial Mechanics 46 (1989), 119-128.

— F. Diacu. The masses in a symmetric centered solution of the n-bodyproblem, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 109 (1990), 1079-1086.

— F. Diacu. Total collapse dynamics for particle systems, Libertas Math.10 (1990), 161-170.

— F. Diacu. Tame and chaotic behavior in the planar isosceles three-bodyproblem, Celestial Mechanics 50 (1991), 313-324.

— F. Diacu. Regularization of partial collisions in the N -body problem,Differential and Integral Equations 5 (1992), 103-136.

— F. Diacu. A generic property of bounded syzygy solutions, Proc. Amer.Math. Soc. 116 (1992), 809-812.

— F. Diacu. On the smoothness of regularization in Newtonian gravita-tional systems, Libertas Math. 12 (1992), 161-179.

— G. Ballinger and F. Diacu. Collision and near-collision orbits in post-Newtonian gravitational systems, Romanian Astron. Journ. 3, 1 (1993),51-59.

— L. Bakker and F. Diacu. On the existence of celestial bodies with un-predictable motion in the solar system and on the Kirkwood gaps,Romanian Astron. Journ. 3, 2 (1993), 139-155.

— F. Diacu. The planar isosceles problem for Maneff’s gravitational law,Journ. Math. Physics 34, 12 (1993), 5671-5690.

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— F. Diacu. Syzygy solutions of the planar 3-body problem, in Interna-tional Conference on Differential Equations, Barcelona 1991, C. Perelloand C. Simo, edit., vol. I, pp. 433-437, World Scientific, 1993.

— D. Saari and F. Diacu. Superhyperbolic expansion, noncollision singu-larities and symmetry configurations, Celestial Mechanics 60 (1994),91-98.

— F. Diacu. On the importance of Manev’s gravitational law, Acta Tech.Napocensis 37 (1994), 48-50.

— F. Diacu. On the Mucket-Treder gravitational law, in New Trends forHamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics, E.A. Lacomba and J.Llibre, edit., Advanced Series in Nonlinear Dynamics, World Scientific,1996.

— F. Diacu. Near-collision dynamics for particle systems with quasihomo-geneous potentials, Journ. Differential Equations 128 (1996), 58-77.

— F. Diacu, A. Mingarelli, V. Mioc, and C. Stoica. The Manev two-bodyproblem: quantitative and qualitative theory, in Dynamical Systemsand Applications, World Scientific Series in Applicable Analysis, G.Agarwal, edit., pp. 213-227, World Scientific, 1995.

— J. Delgado, F. Diacu, E.A. Lacomba, A. Mingarelli, V. Mioc, E. Perez-Chavela, and C. Stoica. The global flow of the Manev problem, Journ.Math. Phys. 37, 6 (1996), 2748-2761.

— F. Diacu and D. Selaru. Chaos in the Gylden problem, Journ. Math.Phys. 39, 12 (1998), 6537-6546.

— S. Craig, F. Diacu, E.A. Lacomba, and E. Perez-Chavela. On theanisotropic Manev problem, Journ. Math. Phys. 40, 3, (1999), 1359-1375.

— F. Diacu. Two-body problems with drag: qualitative results, CelestialMechanics 75 (1999), 1-15.

— F. Diacu. Finite versus infinite in singularity dynamics, (invited paper)in Finite versus Infinite—Contributions to an Eternal Dilemma, com-memorative volume in the honor of Solomon Marcus’s 75th birthday,

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G. Paun and C. Calude, editors, pp. 101-117, Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 2000.

— F. Diacu, V. Mioc, and C. Stoica. Phase-space structure and regulariza-tion of Manev-type problems, Nonlinear Analysis 41 (2000), 1029-1055.

— F. Diacu, Stability in the anisotropic Manev problem, Journ. Phys. A33 (2000), 6573-6578.

— F. Diacu and M. Santoprete. Nonintegrability and chaos in the anisotropicManev problem Physica D 156 (2001), 39-52.

— F. Diacu. The Manev n-body problem as a perturbed harmonic oscilla-tor. Rom. Journ. Info. Sci. Techn. 5, 1-2 (2002), 83-88.

— H. Cabral, F. Diacu, and E. Perez-Chavela. Regularization of binarycollisions for quasihomogeneous potentials, in Developments in Math-ematical and Experimental Physics, A. Macias, F. Uribe, and E. Diaz,editors, pp. 99-116, Kluwer, New York, 2003.

— F. Diacu and E. Perez-Chavela. On the dynamics of the Langmuir prob-lem, Journ. Phys. A 36 (2003), 9053-9066.

— F. Diacu and M. Santoprete. On the global dynamics of the anisotropicManev problem, Physica D. 194 (2004), 75-94.

— F. Diacu, E. Perez-Chavela, and M. Santoprete. The Kepler problemwith anisotropic perturbations, Journ. Math. Phys. 46, 7, (2005), 3120-3140.

— F. Diacu, E. Perez-Chavela, and M. Santoprete. Saari’s conjecture for thecollinear n-body problem, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 357, 10, (2005),4215-4223.

— F. Diacu, E. Perez-Chavela, and M. Santoprete. Central configurationsand total collisions for quasihomogeneous n-body problems, NonlinearAnalysis 65, (2006), 1425-1439.

— F. Diacu, T. Fujiwara, E. Perez-Chavela, and M. Santoprete. Saari’s ho-mographic conjecture for the three-body problem, Trans. Amer. Math.Soc. (accepted).

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History of mathematics papers:

— F. Diacu, Painleve’s conjecture, Math. Intelligencer 15 (1993), 6-12, alsoreprinted in Mathematical Conversations, Selections from the Math-ematical Intelligencer, Robin Wilson and Jeremy Gray, editors, pp.175-184, Springer Verlag, 2001.

— F. Diacu. The solution of the n-body problem, Math. Intelligencer 18,3 (1996), 66-70 (translated and also published in Czech in 1998).

— F. Diacu. A century-long loop, Math. Intelligencer 22, 2 (2000), 19-25.

— F. Diacu and T. Ratiu. Haretu and the stability of the solar system,Romanian Astron. Journ. 11 (1) (2001), 85-92.

Books:

— F. Diacu. Singularities of the N-Body Problem—An Introduction toCelestial Mechanics, Les Publications CRM, Montreal, 1992.

— F. Diacu and P. Holmes. Celestial Encounters—The Origins of Chaosand Stability, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1996.

Translations: Romanian (1996), Chinese (2002), Japanese (2004), Greek(2004), Hungarian (2004), Russian (2004).

Reviewed in Science, Nature, Scientific American, The New Scientist,Mathematical Reviews, Metascience, ISIS, SIAM News, MAA Online,Le Scienze (Italy), UK Nonlinear News (Britain), Romanian Astro-nomical Journal, Bull. London Math. Society, The Times Higher Edu-cation Supplement, Choice Magazine, Toronto Star, Mathematical Sci-ences (Japan), etc.. An essay review appeared in Studies in the Historyand Philosophy of Modern Physics. In 2003 the Chinese translationwas reviewed in Science News (China). Celestial Encounters receivedtwo awards: “Outstanding Academic Book,” by Choice Magazine andwas one of best nonfiction books of 1997 for The American ReporterBook Review. In 1999 the paperback edition appeared in the Prince-ton Science Library, a collection “committed to bringing the writingsof leading scientists to a broad professional and general audience [asstated on the book cover],” inaugurated in 1922 by the publication of

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Albert Einstein’s The Meaning of Relativity. The collection also con-tains books by Richard Feynman, Jacques Hadamard, Hermann Weyl,Hans Rademacher, Otto Toepliz, David Ruelle, etc.

— F. Diacu. An Introduction to Differential Equations—Order and Chaos,W.H. Freeman, New York, 2000. Translations: Portuguese (2004),published in Brazil.

— H. Cabral and F. Diacu. Classical and Celestial Mechanics—The RecifeLectures, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002.

— F. Diacu. The Lost Millennium—History’s Timetables Under Siege, Al-fred A. Knopf Canada, Toronto, 2005; Vintage Canada, Toronto, 2006.(National bestseller in Canada; reviewed in tens of media publications.)

— F. Diacu. Before Tragedy Strikes—The Quest for Predicting Megadis-asters. Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press (toappear in 2008).

Popular science articles:

— F. Diacu, The slingshot effect of celestial bodies, Pi in the Sky 2 (2000)16-18.

— F. Diacu, The Top Mathematics Award, Pi in the Sky 3 (2001), 17-18.

— F. Diacu, On the Dynamics of Karate, Pi in the Sky 6 (2003) 9-11 (alsotranslated and published in Finnish in 2003).

Proposed problems:

— E. Cornea and F. Diacu. Problem 10361, The American Math. Monthly101, 2 (1994).

Newspaper articles:

— F. Diacu, Make elections fairer: use Borda count, Times Colonist, Sat-urday, December 9, 2000, p. A19.

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— F. Diacu, Reality is this: new millennium starts tomorrow, Times Colonist,Saturday, December 30, 2000, p. A11.

— F. Diacu, And the Fields medal goes to. . . , The Ring, February 2, 2001,p. 6.

— F. Diacu, No doubt about it: STV makes good mathematical sense, saysFlorin Diacu, The Globe and Mail, May 6, 2005, p. A15.

— F. Diacu, The math shows STV is fairer, Times Colonist, May 12, 2005,p. A15.

— F. Diacu, When votes don’t matter, FOCUS: Victoria’s Magazine ofPeople, Ideas, and Culture, May 2006.

Invited Talks:

— 12 June 1985, A collision theorem in the nongravitational n-body problem(1 hour talk), Celestial Mechanics Seminar, Astronomical Observatory,University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

— 8 February 1986, Blow-up methods in celestial mechanics (1 hour talk),Celestial Mechanics Seminar, Astronomical Observatory, University ofCluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

— 10 October 1987, Fundamental results in the theory of singularities in then-body problem (1 hour talk), Celestial Mechanics Seminar, Astronom-ical Observatory, University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

— 20 March 1988, Measure theory and celestial mechanics (1 hour talk),Differential Equations Seminar, Faculty of Mathematics, University ofBucharest, Romania.

— 24 February 1989, Syzygy solutions of the n-body problem (1 hour talk),Institute for Applied Mathematics, Ruprecht-Karl University, Heidel-berg, Germany.

— 11 April 1990, Time regularization for partial collisions, (1 hour talk),Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Dortmund, Dortmund,Germany.

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— 11 October 1990, Regularization in the n-body problem I, (1 hour talk),Centre de recherches mathematiques, University of Montreal, Montreal,Quebec, Canada.

— 18 October 1990, Regularization in the n-body problem II, (1 hour talk),Centre de recherches mathematiques, University of Montreal, Montreal,Quebec, Canada.

— 5 December 1990, Singularities of the n-body problem: Painleve’s con-jecture, (1 hour talk), Dynamics Seminar, Center for Applied Mathe-matics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

— 21 January 1991, Recent results on central configurations I (1 hour talk),Celestial Mechanics Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statis-tics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

— 28 January 1991, Recent results on central configurations II (1 hour talk),Celestial Mechanics Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statis-tics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

— 4 February 1991, Recent results on central configurations III (1 hourtalk), Celestial Mechanics Seminar, Department of Mathematics andStatistics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

— February-April 1991, Singularities of the N-body problem, a series of12 lectures (11

2hours for each lecture) during the Dynamical Systems

Year at Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (CRM), University ofMontreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada:

— 11 February 1991, The N-body problem. Generalities.

— 18 February 1991, Criteria for the occurrence of singularities.

— 25 February 1991, Von Zeipel’s theorem on pseudocollisions.

— 4 March 1991, The Pollard-Saari criterion regarding collisions.

— 11 March 1991, Regularization of equations and solutions.

— 18 March 1991, Easton’s surgery method.

— 25 March 1991, Central configurations I.

— 1 April 1991, Central configurations II.

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— 8 April 1991, McGehee transformations and the collision manifold.

— 15 April 1991, Asymptotic results.

— 22 April 1991, Structural stability of homothetic solutions.

— 29 April 1991, The power series solution of the n-body problem.

— 15 February 1991, The n-body problem, (1 hour talk), Colloquium, De-partment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Victo-ria, BC, Canada.

— 1 March 1991, The gravitational n-body problem, (1 hour talk), Col-loquium, Department of Mathematics, Queen’s University, Kingston,ON, Canada.

— 4 September 1991, Singularities of the n-body problem, (1 hour talk),Seminario de Fisica Teorica, Departamento de Fisica Teorica y FisicaAtomica y Nuclear, Facultad de Ciencias (5a Plarita), Universidad deValladolid, Valladolid, Spain.

— 12 September 1991, The collision manifold in the symmetric four-bodyproblem (1 hour talk), Applied Mathematics Seminar, Department ofMathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.

— 29 April 1992, Singularities in celestial mechanics, (1 hour talk), SecondAnnual UBC-UVic-SFU Mathematics Gathering, Dunsmuir Lodge, Vic-toria, BC, Canada.

— 1 October 1992, Chaotic orbits in the solar system, (1 hour talk), Physicsand Astronomy Colloquium, Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.

— 26 November 1992, Dynamical aspects of the Mucket-Treder gravitationallaw, (1 hour talk), Applied Mathematics Seminar, Department of Math-ematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.

— 13 January 1993, Painleve’s conjecture of celestial mechanics, (1 hourtalk), Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Victoria University ofWellington, Wellington, New Zealand.

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— 1 February 1993, Noncollision singularities in celestial mechanics, (1 hourtalk), Graduate Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics,University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.

— 19 February 1993, Pseudocollisions in celestial mechanics, (1 hour talk),Applied mathematics Colloquium, Department of Mathematics andStatistics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

— 8 July 1993, Collision and near-collision orbits in some non-Newtonian3-body problems, (1 hour talk), Graduiertenkolleg Mathematik im Bere-ich ihrer Wechsekwirking mit der Physik, Mathematisches Institut derLudwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munchen, Germany.

— 14 July 1993, Zusammenstosslosungen beim Dreikorperproblem, (1 hourtalk), Seminar des Fachbereichs Mathematik und Informatik, Fernuni-versitat-Gesamthochschule in Hagen, Hagen, Germany.

— 16 July 1993, Qualitative aspects of collision and near-collision solutionsof the 3-body problem, (1 hour talk), Kolloquium fur Technomathe-matik, Fachbereich Mathematik, Universitat Kaiserslautern, Kaiser-slautern, Germany.

— 3 June 1994, series of talks: 1. Collision dynamics in the 3-body prob-lem with Manev’s gravitational law (1 hour talk), 2. The Canadianmathematical educational system, (1 hour talk), Colloquium, Facultyof Mathematics, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania.

— 9 June 1994, The astronomical implications of Manev’s gravitational law,(1 hour talk), Celestial Mechanics Seminar, Astronomical Observatory,University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

— 6 December 1994, Quasihomogeneous potentials, central configurations,and asymptotic results, (1 hour talk), Seminar of Applied Mathemat-ics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University,Ottawa, ON, Canada.

— 7 December 1994, How likely are collision between celestial bodies? (1hour talk), Le Club Mathematique, Department of Mathematics andStatistics, University of Montreal.

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— 20 March 1995, Collision in the three-body problem with perturbed poten-tials, (1 hour talk), Applied Mathematics Seminar, Program in Appliedand Computational Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Prince-ton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

— 24 May 1995, Manev’s 3-body problem, (1 hour talk), Seminar, Depar-tamento de Matematicas, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Izta-palapa, Mexico City, Mexico.

— 19 July 1996, Speech at the launching of the Romanian translation ofthe book Celestial Encounters—The Origins of Chaos and Stability,Astronomical Observatory, Bucharest, Romania.

— 4 June 1997, Collisions in Manev’s gravitational model, (1 hour talk),Colloquium, Faculty of Mathematics, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu,Romania.

— March-April 1998, Singularities in celstial mechanics, a series of 3 lec-tures, Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, Universityof Bucharest.

— 22 January 1999, The anisotropic Manev problem (1 hour talk), Collo-quium, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

— 4 February 1999, Manev versus Newton (1 hour talk), Colloquium, De-partamento de Matematica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Re-cife, Brazil.

— February 1999, Singularities of the N-body problem, a series of 5 1-hourlectures at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.

— 2 February 1999, The nature of singularities.

— 4 February 1999, Regularization of singularities.

— 8 February 1999, Triple collisions.

— 10 February 1999, The collision manifold.

— 11 February 1999, Structural stability.

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— 6 April 1999, Dynamical properties for particle systems given by quasi-homogeneous potential laws, (1 hour talk), Seminar, Department ofMathematics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

— 8 April 1999, Newton + Einstein = Manev, (1 hour talk), Colloquium,Department of Mathematics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta,Canada.

— 7 July 1999, The dynamics of quasihomogeneous potential laws, (1 hourtalk), Department of Mathematics, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Ro-mania.

— 4 April 2000, On the stability of the Helium atom, (1 hour talk), Dynam-ics Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University ofVictoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada.

— 13 October 2000, Die Dynamik der klassischen Atome, (1 hour talk), Col-loquium, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Tubingen, Germany.

— 22 November 2000, On the dynamics of the atom, (1 hour talk), Institutefor Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,B.C., Canada.

— 2 April 2001, A century-long loop: form celestial mechanics to algebraictopology and back to celestial mechanics, (1 hour talk), Graduate Semi-nar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria,B.C., Canada.

— 21 September 2001, Periodic orbits for the classical atom, (1 hour seminartalk), Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Vancou-ver, B.C., Canada.

— 30 August 2002, On the global dynamics of the Manev and the AnisotropicManev problems, (1 hour seminar talk), National Astronomical Obser-vatory, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan.

— 6 December 2002, Variational Methods in the anisotropic Manev prob-lem, (1 hour colloquium talk), Fields Institute, University of Toronto,Toronto, ON, Canada.

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— 16 January 2003, Stability properties in the n-body problem, (1 hourseminar talk), Department of Mathematics, Universidad AutonomaMetropolitana—Iztapalapa, Mexico City.

— 13 February 2003, Theory of Chaos (1 hour talk), Math Club for Under-graduate Students, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada.

— 8 April 2003, Chaos and Catastrophes (1 hour talk), Lunch Box LectureSeries, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

— 8 October 2004, Mathematical Methods in the Study of History (1 hourtalk + 1 hour discussions), University of Victoria Philosophy Collo-quium, Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC,Canada.

— 22 October 2004, Mathematical Methods in the Study of History (1 hourtalk), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Alberta,Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

— 24 November 2004, Saaris Conjecture in the Collinear Case (1 hourtalk), Applied Mathematics Seminar, Department of Mathematics andStatistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.

— 12 January 2005, Saaris ConjectureA Review (1 hour colloquium talk),Department of Mathematics, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena,Chile.

— 2 March 2005, Scientific Methods in the Study of Historical Chronology(1 hour talk), Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, National ResearchCouncil of Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada.

— 24 August 2005, Central Configurations and Total Collisions for Quasi-homogeneous N-Body Problems (1 hour seminar talk), Department ofMathematics, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania.

— 19 September 2005, Mathematical, Statistical, and Astronomical Methodsin the Study of Historical Chronology (1 hour colloquium talk), Depart-ment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria,BC, Canada.

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— 18 March 2006, Is this the year 2006? Calendars and time-reckoningfrom antiquity to the present (1 hour public talk), Centre of the Uni-verseDominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, BC, Canada.

— 24 April 2006, The Extended Saari’s Conjecture, (1 hour seminar talk)Department of Mathematics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

— 11 October 2006, Is this the year 2006? Calendars and time reckoningfrom antiquity to the present, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada,Victoria, BC, Canada.

— 2 February 2007, Is this the year 2007? Calendars and time reckoningfrom antiquity to the present, (1 hour colloquium talk), Department ofMathematics and Statistics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC,Canada.

Talks at Meetings and Conferences:

— 16 May 1985, Cosmogonical properties in the n-body problem, (12

hourtalk), National Conference for the Anniversary of the Military Astro-nomical Observatory, Military Astronomical Observatory, Bucharest,Romania.

— 20 August 1987, Some regularization in the n-body problem, (12

hourtalk), National Conference for the Anniversary of 300 hundred yearsfrom the publication of Newton’s Principia, Astronomical Observatory,Bucharest, Romania.

— 11 December 1990, On the smoothness of regularization in Newtoniangravitational systems, (1

4hour communication), Canadian Mathemat-

ical Society Winter Meeting, 9–11 December 1990, University of Wa-terloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

— 23 March 1991, Syzygy solutions of the n-body problem, (14

hour commu-nication), Ontario-Quebec Mathematics Meeting, Faculty of Science,University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

— 30 May 1991, On the topological structure of negligible invariant sets forflows, (1

4hour communication), Canadian Mathematical Society Sum-

mer Meeting, 29 May–1 June 1991, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec,Canada.

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— 27 August 1991, Syzygy solutions of the three-body problem, (13

hourcommunication), Equadiff 91, International Conference on DifferentialEquations, 26-31 August 1991, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona,Barcelona, Spain (communication published in the refereed proceedingsof the conference).

— 10 December 1991, Singularities of planar symmetric four-body prob-lems, (1

4hour communication), Canadian Mathematical Society Winter

Meeting, 7-10 December 1991, University of Victoria, Victoria, BritishColumbia, Canada.

— 4 June 1992, On some regularization techniques, (1 hour invited talk),Mathematics Section, The 17th Congress of the American RomanianAcademy of Arts and Sciences, 3- 7June 1992, California State Univer-sity at Northridge, Northridge, California, USA.

— 7 January 1993, On Painleve’s conjecture of celestial mechanics, (12

hourtalk), International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differ-ential Equations, 4-8 January 1993, University of Auckland, Auckland,New Zealand,

— 26 March 1993, Collision-ejection solutions, (1 hour invited talk), Mid-west Dynamical Systems Conference, 26-28 March 1993, University ofColorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

— 17 April 1993, Collision-ejection orbits for some non-Newtonian 3-bodyproblems, (1 hour invited talk), Pacific Northwest Dynamical SystemsSeminar, 16-17 April 1993, Western Washington University, Belling-ham, Washington, USA.

— 21 July 1993, Collision and near-collision orbits in some non-Newtonian3-body problems, (1 hour invited talk), Dynamische Systeme, Mathe-matisches Forschungsinstitut, 18-24 July 1993, Oberwolfach, Germany.

— 25 May 1994, Manev’s gravitational law and the black-hole effect, (1 hourinvited talk), International Conference: Romania and the Romaniansin Contemporary Science, Mathematics Section, 24-27 May 1994, Ro-manian Academy, Sinaia, Romania.

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— 7 June 1994, Mathematics in the Canadian educational system, (1 houropening talk), The 4th International Conference in Applied Mathemat-ics and Mechanics, 7-12 June 1994, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

— 8 June 1994, The dynamics of particle systems with quasihomogeneouspotentials (1

2hour talk), The 4th International Conference in Applied

Mathematics and Mechanics, 7-12 June 1994, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

— 12 December 1994, Newton, Manev, and the n-body problem, (12

hourinvited talk), Candian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting, 11-13December 1994. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

— 29 June 1995, The isosceles Manev problem, (1 hour invited talk), JointSummer Research Conference in Mathematics: Hamiltonian Systemsand Celestial Mechanics, 25-29 June 1995, University of Washington,Seattle, WA.

— 21 August 1995, Collisions in the Manev three-body problem, (1 hourinvited talk), The 6th International Colloquium on Differnetial Equa-tions, 18-23 August 1995, University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

— 15 July 1996, Singularities for quasihomogeneous potentials, (34

hour in-vited talk), Second World Congress in Nonlinear Analysis, 10-17 July1996, University of Ahtens, Athens, Greece.

— 29 September 1996, The global flow of the Manev problem, (1 hour invitedtalk), The 21st Congress of the American Romanian Academy of Artsand Sciences, Mathematics Section, 26-29 September 1996, Universityof Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

— 27 May 1997, Gravitation theories, (1 hour invited talk), InternationalConference: Romania and the Romanians in Contemporary Science,Mathematics Section, 27-31 May 1994, Romanian Academy, Brasov,Romania.

— 4 December 1997, Chaos in the Gylden problem, (12

hour invited talk),Third Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical and Mexican Math-ematical Societies, Special Session in Celestial Mechanics and Mathe-matical Biology, 3-6 December 1997, Oaxaca, Mexico.

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— 14 December 1997, Chaos in the Gylden problem, (12

hour invited talk),Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting, 14-16 December 1997,University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

— 22 June 1998, The Melnikov method for the Gylden problem, (12

hourinvited talk), Celestial Mechanics, Separatrix Splitting, and ArnoldDiffusion, Aussois, France, 21-27 June 1998.

— 11 December 1998, Fundamental results on the Manev problem (1 hourinvited talk), Celestial Mechanics and Hamiltonian Systems, Patzcuaro,Mexico, 7-11 December 1998.

— 14 January 1999 The anisotropic Manev problem, (12

hour invited talk),Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Math-ematical Association of America, 13-16 January 1999, San Antonio,Texas, USA.

— 22 July 1999 Quasihomogeneous potentials, (1 hour invited talk), The24th ARA Congress, 21-25 July 1999, Liege, Belgium.

— 11 December 1999, Qualitative properties for quasihomogeneous poten-tials, (1

2hour invited talk), Special Session in Celestial Mechanics and

Hilbert’s 16th Problem, Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meet-ing, 11-13 December 1999, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

— 12 December 1999, A century-long loop: celestial mechanics → algebraictopology → celestial mechanics, (1

2hour invited talk), Special Session

in the History of Mathematics, Canadian Mathematical Society WinterMeeting, 11-13 December 1999, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

— 18 December 1999, A model for the Helium atom, (1 hour invited talk),Dynamical Systems (Conference in celebration of Donald Saari’s 60thbirthday), 15-19 December 1999, Northwestern University, Evanston,Illinois, USA.

— 19 July 2000, On the stability of atoms, (1 hour invited talk), The 3rdWorld Congress in Nonlinear Analysis, Catania, Italy, 16-21 July 2000.

— 12 October 2000, Periodic orbits in atomic systems, (12

hour invited talk),Trends in Nonlinear Analysis (Conference in celebration of Willi Jager’s

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60th birthday), Ruprecht-Karl University, Heidelberg, Germany, 8-12October, 2000.

— 19 March 2001, On the dynamics of the atom, (1 hour invited talk),Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics, CIMAT, Guanajuato,Mexico, 18-24 March 2001.

— 10 May 2001, Periodic orbits of the classical atom, (1 hour invitedtalk), Symmetry and Perturbation Theory, SPT-2001, Cala Gonone,Sardinia, Italy, 6-13 May 2001.

— 21 August 2001, On motion in a classical atom, (1/2 hour invited talk),The Second Canada-China Meeting, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, B.C. Canada, 20-23 August 2001.

— 12 September 2001, Periodic orbits for the Langmuir Problem, (1 hourinvited plenary talk), Mexican Meeting on Mathematical and Exper-imental Physics, El Colegio Nacional, Mexico City, 10-14 September2001.

— 20 May 2002, Qualitative properties of the anisotropic Manev problem(1/2 hour invited talk), Symmetry and Perturbation Theory, SPT-2002,Cala Gonone, Sardinia, Italy, 19-26 May 2002.

— 2 June 2002, Periodic orbits in the anisotropic Manev problem (1 hourplenary talk), Teodor Angheluta Conference, Baisoara, Cluj-Napoca,31 May-2 June 2002.

— 8 December 2002, Spiru Haretu and the stability of the solar system (1/2hour invited talk), Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting,Ottawa, 7-10 December, 2002.

— 8 May 2003, The global flow of the anisotropic Manev problem (1 hourtalk), Geometry, Symmetry and Mechanics III, Institute d’Etudes Sci-entifique de Cargse, Corsica, France, 5-10 May 2003.

— 2 September 2003, On mathematics writing (1 hour invited talk), BIRSWorkshop, Banff, Alberta, 30 August—4 September 2003.

— 19 April 2004, Mathematical methods of chronology (1 hour invited talk),BIRS Workshop, Banff, Alberta, 17-22 April 2004.

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— 20 May 2004, On the Manev isotropic and anisotropic problem (1 hourmain invited address), Contemporary Aspects of Astronomy, Theoreti-cal and Gravitational Physics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sophia,Bulgaria, 20-22 May 2004.

— 3 June 2004, Saaris conjecture in the collinear case (1/2 hour invitedtalk), SPT-2004, Cala Gonone, Sardinia, Italy, May 30-June 6 2004.

— 7 July 2004, On Saaris conjecture, ICNDEE-2004, Memorial Universityof Newfoundland, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada, July 6-10 2004.

— 12 July 2004, Saaris conjecture in the collinear case, First Joint Canada-France Meeting of the Mathematical Sciences, Centre de Congrs PierreBaudis, Toulouse, France, 12-15 July 2004.

— 16 July 2004, Saaris and it’s implications in celestial mechanics (1 hourmain invited talk), MASIE-2004, Lasuanne, Switezerland, 12-16 July2004.

— 18 January 2005, Saaris Conjecture in the Collinear Case, Pan-AmericanConference in Nonlinear Studies, Pan-American Advanced Studies In-stitute, Santiago, Chile, 15-22 January 2005.

— 8 April 2005, Saaris conjecture: results and perspectives (3/4 hour invitedtalk), Saarifest 2005, International Conference Dedicated to DonaldSaaris 65th Anniversary, CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico, April 3-9, 2005.

— 2 December 2005, Mathematical Methods in Historical Chronology (1hour invited talk), Celestial Mechanics, Conference in the honour ofErnesto Lacombas 60th anniversary, UAM, Mexico, City, 1-2 December2005.

— 26 May 2006, Saaris homographic conjecture for the three-body problem (1hour invited talk), Third International Conference in Celestial Mechan-ics, 25-27 May 2006, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

— 27 May 2006, The Lost Millenniumcelestial mechanics and historicalchronology (1 hour invited talk), Third International Conference inCelestial Mechanics, 25-27 May 2006, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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— 31 May 2006, Saaris homographic conjecture for the three-body problem (1hour invited talk), The Teodor Angheluta Conference, 30 May-2 June2006, Baisoara, Romania.

— 18 June 2006, Make votes matterhow voting methods shape the world(1 hour invited talk), Creative Writing in the Mathematical Sciences,17-22 June 2006, Banff International Research Station (BIRS), Banff,Alberta, Canada,

— 25 August 2006, Saaris conjecture of celestial mechanics (1/3 hour talk),International Congress of Mathematicians, 22-30 August 2006, Madrid,Spain.

University of Victoria’s Speakers Bureau:

— 5 October 1999, Understanding chaos, Kiwanis Club, Victoria, BC,Canada.

— 27 March 2000, Chaos and Catastrophe Theory, William Head Institu-tion, Victoria, BC, Canada.

— 28 October 2001, Chaos Theory, The Humanist Society, Victoria, BC,Canada.

— 16 October 2002, The Theory of Chaos, Retired Professor’s Forum, Vic-toria, BC, Canada.

— 30 September 2003, The Theory of Chaos, The Carpe Diem Club, Camo-sun College, Victoria, BC, Canada.

— 4 October 2005, Chaos and Celestial Mechanics, Gordon Head UnitedChurch, Mens Club, Victoria, BC, Canada.

Advisory Appointments:

— 2000-2007, Member of the Scientific Committee for Mathematics, ScoalaNormala Superioara, Bucharest.

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Editorial Appointments:

— 1999-present, Founding member of the Editorial Board, The Far EastJournal of Dynamical Systems, a research journal published by PushpaPublishing, India.

— 2000-present, Founding memeber of the Editoria Board, Pi in the Sky,an educational magazine for senior high-school students published byPIMS.

— 2001-present, Member of the Editorial Board, Romanian AstronomicalJournal, a research journal of the Romanian Academy.

— 2007-present, Honorary Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for theJournal of Mathematical Sciences.

Refereeing Activity:

— Papers for the following journals:

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis; Canadian Applied Math-ematics Journal; Canadian Journal of Physics; Celestial Mechanics andDynamical Astronomy; Complex Systems; Dynamics of Continuous,Discrete, and Impulsive Systems; Journal of Differential Equations;Journal of Mathematical Physics; Journal of Nonlinear Science; Jour-nal of Physics A; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,UK; Physica D.; Physics Letters A; Romanian Astronomical Journal;SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis; SIAM Journal on AppliedDynamical Systems; The Mathematical Intelligencer.

— Books for the following publishers: Princeton University Press, Pren-tice Hall, W.H. Freeman & Company, Johns Hopkins University Press,Springer Verlag.

Reviewing Activity:

— Papers and Books for the following journals: Mathematical Reviews,Historia Mathematica.

— Applications for the following grant agencies: NSF of the United States,NSERC of Canada, FCAR of Quebec.

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Papers reviewed for the Mathematical Reviews:

— Cassayas, J., Llibre, J. and Nunes, A.: Central configurations of theplanar 1+n body problem, Celestial Mech. Dynam. Astronom. 60, 2,(1994), 273-288.

— Elmabsout, B.: Stability of some degenerate positions of relative equi-librium in the n-body problem, Dynam. Stability Systems 9, 4, (1994),305-319.

— Moeckel R. and Sim, C.: Bifurcation of spatial central configurationsfrom planar ones, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 26, 4, (1995), 978-998.

— Albouy, A.: Symtrie des configurations centrales de quatre corps, C.R.Acad. Sci. Paris Ser. I Math. 320, 2, (1995), 217-220 (featured review).

— Saari, D.G. and Xia, Z.: Off to infinity in finite terms, Notices Amer.Math. Soc. 42, 5, (1995), 538-546.

— Moeckel, R.: Linear stability analysis of some symmetrical classes ofrelative equilibria, Hamiltonian Dyn. Syst. (Cincinnati, OH, 1992), pp.291-317, IMA Vol. Math. Appl. 63, Springer, New York, 1995.

— Meyer, K.R. and Wang, Q.: The global phase structure of the three-dimensional isosceles three-body problem with zero energy, Hamilto-nian Dyn. Syst. (Cincinnati, OH, 1992), pp. 265-282, IMA Vol. Math.Appl. 63, Springer, New York, 1995.

— Cors, J. and Llibre, J.: The global flow of the hyperbolic restricted three-body problem, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 131 (1995) (4), 335-358.

— Balan, R.: Horseshoes and nonintegrality in the restricted case of a spin-less axisymmetric rigid body in a central gravitational field, CelestialMech. Dynam. Astronom. 63, 1, (1995/96), 59-79.

— Adomian, G.: A non-perturbative solution of N -body dynamics, Found.Phys. Lett. 9, 3, (1996), 301-308.

— Chicone, C., Mashhon, B. and Petrloff, D.G.: On the ionization of aKeplerian binary system by periodic gravitational radiation, J. Math.Phys. 37, 8, (1996), 3997-4016.

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— Milani, A.: Proper elements and stable chaos, From Newton to chaos(Cortina d’Ampezzo, 1993), 47-48, NATO Adv. Sci. Inst. Ser. B. Phys.,336, Plenum, New York, 1995.

— Falconi, M. and Lacomba, E.A.: Asymptotic behavior of escape solu-tions of mechanical systems with polynomial potentials, Hamiltoniandynamics and celestial mechanics (Seattle, WA, 1995), 191-195, Con-temp. Math. 198, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I., 1996.

— Kaplan, S.R.: The collinear one-bumper two-body problem, Hamilto-nian dynamics and celestial mechanics (Seattle, WA, 1995), 87-107,Contemp. Math., 198, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I., 1996.

— Moeckel, R.: Transition tori in the five-body problem, J. DifferentialEquations 129, 2, (1996), 290-314 (featured review).

— Tajdari, M.: The moving singularities of the perturbation expansionof the classical Kepler problem, SIAM J. Appl. Math. 56, 5, (1996),1363-1378.

— Saari, D.G. and Xia, Z.: Singularities in the Newtonian n-body problem,in Hamiltonian dynamics and celestial mechanics (Seattle, WA, 1995),21-30, Contemp. Math. 198, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I., 1996.

— Contopoulos, G. and Polymilis, C.: Recurrence in the homoclinic tangle,Celestial Mech. Dynam. Astr. 63 (1995/96), no. 2, 189-197.

— Morrisey, Thomas J.: A degenerate Hartman theorem, Israel J. Math.95 (1996), 157-167.

— Contopoulos, G., Grousouzakou, E. and Polymilis, C.: Distribution of pe-riodic orbits and the homoclinic tangle, Celestial Mech. Dynam. Astr.64, 4, (1996), 363-381.

— Umehara, H. and Tamikawa, K.: Triple collision and escape in the three-body problem, Dynamical Systems and Chaos, vol. 2 (Hachioji, 1994),404-407, World Sci. Publishing, River Edge, NJ, 1995.

— Virarelli, M.D.: The Levi-Civita time transformation and a Killing vectorfor the Kepler problem, Meccanica 32, 2, (1997), 135-142.

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— Bors, C.I.: Two-body problem in a non-invertral frame of reference andthe advance of perihelion, Tensor (N.S.) 53 (1993), CommemorationVolume I, 174-179.

— Chenciner, A.: Les rle de collisions dans le problme des n corps, Mcaniquecleste, 32 pp., SMF Journ. Annie., 1996.

— Kandrup, H.E. and Mahon, M.E.: Stochastic processes and the gravita-tional N-body problem, Stochastic processes in astrophysics (Gainsville,FL, 1993), 81-83, Ann. New York, Acad. Sci., 706 New York Acad. Sci.,New York, 1993.

— Bozis, G. and Borghero, F.: A new formulation of the two-dimensionalinverse problem of dynamics, Inverse Problems 14, 1, (1998), 41-51.

— Martinez, A.J. and Orellana, R.B.: Orbit’s structure in the isosceles rec-tilinear restricted three-body problem, Celestial Mech. Dynam. Astron.64, 4, (1997), 275-291.

— Nardone, P.: Regularization of the three-dimensional gravitational po-tential, J. Phys. A 31 (1998), 2889-2898.

— Aparicio, J. and Floria, L.: A BF-regularization of a nonstationary two-body problem under the Manev perturbing potential, Extracta Math.bf 12, 3, (1997), 291-299.

— Cheniciner, Alain and Desolneux, Nicole: Minima de l’intgrale d’actionet quilibries relatifs de n corps, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris SerI, Math. 326, 10, (1998), 1209-1212.

— Cheniciner, Alain and Desolneux, Nicole: Erratum: Minima de l’intgraled’action et quilibries relatifs de n corps, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci.Paris Ser I, Math. 327 , 2, (1998), 193.

— Fontich, E.: Stable curves asymptotic to a degenerate fixed point, Non-linear Analysis, Ser. A: Theory, Methods 35, 6, (1999), 711-733.

— Floria, Luis: Universal S variables of the TR-type for a class of perturbedKerplerian systems, XV Congress on Differential Equations and Appli-caations/V Congress on Applied Mathematics, Vol. I, II (Spanish).(Vigo 1997), 255-260, Colec. Congr., 9, Univ. Vigo, Vigo, 1998.

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— McCord, Christopher, Meyer, Kenneth, and Wang, Quidong: The inte-gral manifolds of the three-body problem, Memoirs Amer. Math. Soc.132 (1998), 1-91 (featured review).

— Varadi, F., Ghil, M., Kaula, W.M.: Mass-weighted symplectic formsfor the N -body problem, Celestial Mech. Dynam. Astronom. 72, 3,(1998/99), 187-189.

— Laurodogorita, Jon Perez: Escape to infinity, Internat. Journ. Theoret.Phys. 38, 8, (1999), 2231-2239.

— Martinez, Regina and Simo, Carles: Simultaneous binary collisions inthe planar four-body problem, Nonlinearity 12, 4, (1999), 903-930.

— Umehara, Hiroaki and Tanikawa, Kiyotaka: Orbital distribution arbi-trarily close to the homothetic equilateral triple collision in the free-fallthree-body problem with equal masses, Celestial Mech. Dynam. As-tronom. 74, 2, (1999), 69-94.

— Bryant, John G.: Canonical variables of the second kind and the reduc-tion of the N-body problem, Impact of modern dynamics in astronomy(Namur, 1998), Celestial Mech. Dynam. Astronom. 73, 1-4, (1999),269-280.

— Broucke, Roger A.: Motion near the unit circle in the three-body prob-lem, Impact of modern dynamics in astronomy (Namur, 1998), CelestialMech. Dynam. Astronom. 73, 1-4, (1999), 281-290.

— Szczesny, J. and Dobrowolski, T.J.: Geodesic deviation equation ap-proach to chaos, Ann. Phys. 277, 2, (1999), 161-176.

— Chenciner, A.: Collisions totales, mouvements compltement paraboliqueset rduction des homothties dans le problme des corps., Regular. ChaoticDynam. 3, 3, (1999), 93-106.

— Prasad, A., Srivastava, G.P., Das, R.K., Das, A.K.: Relativistic treat-ment of periodic orbits of collision in the circular restricted problem ofthree bodies in a three-dimensional coordinate system, Indian Journ.Pure Appl. Math. 30, 12, (1999), 1243-1259.

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— Cicogna, G. and Santoprete, M.: An approach to Melnikov theory incelestial mechanics, Journ. Math. Phys. 41, 2, (2000), 805-815.

— Daboul, J. and Hickman, M.: New Hamiltonians with closed orbits,Phys. Lett. A 267, 4, (2000), 232-239.

— Zhang, Shiqing: A relationship between the period and energy and angu-lar momentum, Int. Journ. Math. Game Theory Algebra 9, 4, (1999),241-243.

— Kahane, Jean-Pierre: Hadamard et al stabilit du systme solaire, Travausemathmatiques, Fasc/ XI (Luxembourg, 1998), 33-48, Sm. Math. Lux-embourg, Centre Univ. Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 1999.

— Shi, He and Zou, Fengmei: Square and rhombus central configurations,Systems Sci. Math. Sci. 13, 1, (2000), 74-84.

— Cabral, Hildeberto and Vidal, Claudio: Periodic solutions of symmet-ric perturbations of the Kepler problem, Journ. Differential Equations163, 1, (2000), 76-88.

— Vozmischeva, Tatiana G.: Mathematical aspects in celestial mechanics,the Langrange and Euler problems in the Lobachevsky space, in Geom-etry, integrability and quantization ) Varna, pp. 283-298, Coral PressSci. Publ., Sofia, 2000.

— Nemec, Jan: An alternative proof of Painlev’s theorem, Appl. Math. 45,4, (2000), 291-299.

— Posch, H.A. and Thirring, W.: The classical three-body problem – whereis abstract mathematics, physical intuition, computational physics mostpowerful? Mathematical Physics 2000, 289-305, Imp. Coll. Press, Lon-don, 2000.

— Posch, H.A. and Thirring, W.: Some aspects of the classical three-bodyproblem that are close or foreign to physical intuition, Journ. Math.Phys. 41, 6, (2000), 3430-3447.

— Marmi, Stefano: Chaotic behaviour in the solar system (following J.Laskar) Sminaire Bourbaki, Vol. 1998/99, Astrisque No. 266 (2000),Exp. No. 854, 3, 113-116.

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— Gascon, F.G. and Peralta-Salas, D.: Escape to infinity in a Newtonianpotential, Journ. Phys. A 33, 3, (2000), 5361-5368.

— Floria, Luis: Reduction of algebraic integrands involving universal func-tions, Application to Sundman-type transformations in orbital motion,Mech. Res. Comm. 27, 5, (2000), 511-517.

— Xie, Zhifu and Zhang, Shiqing: A simpler proof of regular polygon solu-tions of the N -body problem, Phys. Letters A 277, 3, (2000), 156-158.

— Bolotin, S.V. and Mackay, R.S.: Periodic and chaotic trajectories of thesecond species for the n-centre problem, Celest. Mech. Dyn. Astron.77, 1, (2000), 49-75.

— Chenciner, Alain and Montogomery, Richard, A remarkable periodicsolution of the three-body problem in the case of equal masses, AnnalsMath. 152, 3, (2000), 881-901 (featured review).

— Nucci, M.C. and Leach, P.G.L.: The harmony in the Kepler and relatedproblems, Journ. Math. Phys. 42, 2, (2001), 746-764.

— Shiqing, Zhang: Sundman’s inequalities in N -body problems and theirapplications, Math. Inequal. Appl. 4, 1, (2001), 85-91.

— Montgomery, Richard: A new solution to the three-body problem, No-tices Amer. Math. Soc. 48, 5, (2001), 471-481.

— McCord, Christopher K. and Meyer, Kenneth, R.: Integral manifoldsof the restricted three-body problem, Ergodic Theory and DynamicalSystems 21 (2001), no. 3, 885-914.

— McCord, Christopher K. and Meyer, Kenneth, R.: On the homology ofthe integral manifolds in the planar N-body problem, Ergodic Theoryand Dynamical Systems 21 (2001), no. 3, 861-883.

— Zhang, Shiqing and Zhou, Qing: Geometric characterizations for the leastLagrangian action of n-body problems, Sci. China Ser. A. 44(2001),no. 1, 15-20.

— Zhang, Shiqing and Zhou, Qing: Double pyramidal central configura-tions, Phys. Letters A 281 (2001), no. 4, 240-248.

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— Zhang, Shiqing and Xie, Zhifu: Nested regular polygon solutions of the2N -body problem, Phys. Letters A 281, 2-3, (2001), 149-154.

— Marchal, Christian: The family P12 of the three-body problem - the sim-plest family of periodic orbits, with twelve symmetries per period, NewDevelopments in the dynamics of planetary systems (Badhofgastein,2000) Celest. Mech. Dyn. Astron. 78, 1-4, (2001), 279-298.

— Martinez, Regina and Sim, Carles: The Degree of differentiability ofthe regularization of simultaneous binary collisions in some N -bodyproblems, Nonlinearity 13, 6, (2000), 2107-2130.

— Osserman, Robert: Kepler’s laws, Newton’s laws, and the search for newplanets, Amer. Math. Monthly 108, 9, (2001), 813-820.

— Chenciner, Alain: Action minimizing periodic orbits in the Newtoniann-body problem, Celestial Mechanics, 71-90. Contemporary Math. 292(Amer. Math. Society, Providence, RI, 2002.

— Aubin, David and Dalmedico, A.D.: Writing the history of dynamicalcultures, Historia Math. 29 (2002), 273-339.

— Chenciner, Alain: Comment on ”A singular proof of regular polygonsolutions of the N-body problem” by Zhifu Xie and Shiqing Zhang[Phys. Lett. A 277 (2000), 156-158]. Phys. Letters A 300 (2002),101-102.

— Scheeres, D.J.: Stability in the full two-body problem, Celest. Mech.Dyn. Astron. 83 (2002), 155-169.

— Vozmischeva, T.G.: The Lagrange and two-center problems on the Lobachevskyspace, Celest. Mech. Dyn. Astron. 84 (2002), 65-85.

— Zhang, Shiqing: Notes on regular polygon solutions of planar N-bodyproblems, Xinan Shifau Daxue Xuebao Ziran Keswe Ban 28 (2003),344-346.

— Martinez, Regina and Sam Anna: On the centre manifold of collinearpoints in the planar three-body problem, Celest. Mech. Dyn. Astron.85 (2003), 311-340.

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— Arribas, M., Elipe, A., Riquas, A.: Non-integrability of anisotropic quasi-homogeneous Hamiltonian systems, Mech. Res. Comm. 30 (2003), 209-216.

— Hauser, Kai and Lang, Reinhard: On the geometrical and physical mean-ing of Newtons solution to Keplers problem, Math. Intelligencer 25, 4(2003), 35-44.

— Albouy, Alain: The underlying geometry of the fixed centers prob-lems, Topological methods, variational methods and their ApplicationsTaiyuan, 2002), 11-21, World Sci. Publishing, River Edge, NJ, 2003.

— Chenciner, Alain: Some facts and more questions about the Eight, Topo-logical methods, variational methods and their Applications Taiyuan,2002), 77-88, World Sci. Publishing, River Edge, NJ, 2003.

— Cors, Josep M., Llibre Jaume and Oll, Merc: Central configurations ofthe planar coorbital satellite problem, Celest. Mech. Dyn. Astron. 89,4, (2004), 319-342.

— Cordani, B: From order to chaos in a perturbed Kepler problem, Regul.Chaotic Dyn. 9, 3, (2004), 351-372.

— Szenkovits, Ferenc: Two-body type problemsa topological view, Pro-ceedings of the BOLYAI 2000 International Conference on Geometryand Topology, 149-153, Cluj Univ. Press, Cluj Napoca, 2003.

— Falconi, M., Lacomba E. A. and Vidal C.: The flow of classical me-chanical cubic potential systems, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Systems 11, 4,(2004), 827-842.

— Zhu, Changrong: Central configurations of nested regular tetrahedrons,Journ. Math. Anal. Appl. 312, 1, (2005), 83-92.

— Ouyang, Tiancheng; Xie, Zhifu; and Zhang, Shiqing: Pyramidal cen-tral configurations and perverse solutions, Electron. Journ. DifferentialEquations 106 (2004), 9 pp.

— Szpiro, George G.: The Secret Life of Numbers50 Easy Pieces on HowMathematicians Work and Think, Joseph Henry Press, Washington,D.C., 2006, SIAM Reviews, 2007 (to appear).

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Books reviewed for the Mathematical Reviews

— Beletsky, Vladimir, V., 1995. Regulre und chaotische Bewegung star-rer Krper (German), Teubner Studienbcher Mechanik, G.B. Teubner,Stuttgart.

— Grossman, N., 1996.: The sheer joy of celestial mechanics, Birkhuser,Boston, MA.

— Boccaletti, D. and Pucacco, G., 1996. Theory of orbits, vol. I: Integrablesystems and non-perturbative methods. Astronomy and AstrophysicsLibrary. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

— Anisiu, Mira-Cristiana, 1998. Metode ale Analizei Nelineare, cu aplicatiiin mecanica cereasca (Romanian) , Presa Universitara Clujeana.

— Szenkovits, Ferenc: Metode topologice in mecanica cereasca (in Roma-nian), Presa Universitara Clujeana, Cluj-Napoca, 2002.

Books reviewed for Historia Mathematica

— Green-Barrow, J.: Poincar and the Three-Body Problem, AmericanMathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1997. Hist. Math. 26 (1999).

Organization of Conferences:

— Session Co-organizer, Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting,7-10 December 1991, Victoria, B.C., Canada.

— Chair of the Organizing Committee, The 21st Congress of the Ameri-can Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 26-29 September 1996,University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada.

— Member of the Organizing Committee, First PIMS Conference (for theestablishment of PIMS), 4 October 1996, University of Victoria, Vic-toria, B.C., Canada.

— Session Co-organizer, Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting,14-17 December 1997, Victoria, B.C., Canada.

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— Session Co-organizer, Third World Congress of Nonlinear Analysis, Uni-versity of Catania, Catania, Italy, 19-26 July 2000.

— Chair of the Scientific Committee and Session Organizer, Canadian Ap-plied and Industrial Mathematics Society Meeting, 7-9 June 2001, Vic-toria, B.C., Canada.

— Session organizer: Dynamical Systems, at the Canadian MathematicalSociety Winter Meeting, 6-8 December 2003, Simon Fraser University,Vancouver, B.C, Canada.

— Co-organizer (with Donald Saari, UC Irvine): Celestial Mechanics, BIRSWorkshop, 17-22 April 2004, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

— Member of the Scientific Committee, Contemporary Aspects of Astron-omy, Theoretical and Gravitational Physics, 20-22 May 2004, Sophia,Bulgaria.

— Member of the Scientific Committee, Fluid and Celestial Mechanics, 16-18 September 2004, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

— Orgnizer of BIRS 2006, Work in Teams, Saaris Conjecture, 11-25 Febru-ary 2005, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

— Member of the Scientific Committee, Celestial Mechanics, 25-27 May2006, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

— Member of the Scientific Committee, The Teodor Angheluta Conference,30 May-2 June, 2006, Baisoara, Romania.

External Examiner of Ph.D. Theses:

— 1995 Nelly Faycal, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, CarletonUniversity, Ottawa.

— 1999 James Chalmer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Car-leton University, Ottawa. (Gold Medal for the best Ph.D. thesis in1999 at Carleton University)

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Member of Prize-Awarding Committies

— Mathcounts competition, jury president, 1993

— PIMS Educational Prize, 2000

— PIMS Educational Prize, 2001

Postdoctoral Fellows:

— Samuel Kaplan, 1999.

Graduate Students:

— Lennard Bakker, M.Sc. degree 1993, thesis: Arnold Diffusion in theElliptic Restricted Planar Three-Body Problem

— Mona Popescu, M.Sc. degree 1994, thesis: The Theorem of Von Zeipelfor Quasihomogeneous Potentials

— Cristina Stoica, Ph.D. degree 2000, thesis: Particle Systems with Quasi-homogeneous Interaction

— Manuele Santoprete, Ph.D. degree 2003: Chaos, Nonintegrability, andPeriodic Orbits in the Anisotropic Manev Problem (received the Gov-ernor General’s Medal at the University of Victoria for 2003).

— Bogdan Verjinschi, M.Sc. degree 2003: The Sitnikov Problem for Quasi-homogeneous Potentials

— Scott Craig, M.Sc. thesis in preparation: Collisions in the AnisotropicManev Problem

— Robert Jones, M.Sc. thesis in preparation: Qualitative Methods forLennard-Jones Potentials

— Ashley Blacquiere, M.Sc. thesis in preparation: Central Configurationsfor Quasihomogeneous Potentials

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Consulting:

— consultant for the play Proof by David Auburn, played at the BelfryTheatre in Victoria (March-May 2003), Director: Brian Johnson.

Radio and TV interviews:

— on CBC Radio, Victoria, “On the Island,” host David Greerson, inter-view given on Monday, 1 October 2001, about mathematics in Canada.

— on CH News, Channel 6, Victoria, interview given at the MathMania show held at Sooke Elementary School on October 2, 2001 (airedon October 3, 2001).

— on CFUV Radio, Victoria interview on Chaos Theory, given onNovember 7, 2001, aired on November 16, 2001.

— on Multicultural Channel, Channel 10, interview on Chaos Theory,Part I, broadcast on November 9, 2004 and repeated on November 13,2004.

— on Multicultural Channel, Channel 10, interview on Chaos Theory,Part II, broadcast on November 16, 2004 and repeated on November20, 2004.

— on CH News, Channel 6, Victoria, interview on lottery odds, tapedand aired on October 25, 2005.

— on CKRW Radio, Waterloo, Ontario, host John Maciel, interviewabout historical chronology (live), January 25, 2006.

— on Rogers Radio, “Maritime Mornings” (Halifax, St. John and Monc-ton), 60 minute show with callers, host Andrew Krystal, about histor-ical chronology (live interview), January 30, 2006.

— on CBC Radio, Vancouver, “Free Style” (national show), hosts CameronPhilips and Kelly Ryan, about historical chronology (taped interviewaired the same day), February 3, 2006.

— on CBC Radio, Victoria, “On the Island,” host Paul Vasey, interviewabout historical chronology (live, 8:20 to 8:30 AM), February 6, 2006.

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— on CFAX Radio, Victoria, “Talk it Over,” host Terry Spence, inter-view about historical chronology (live, 11:10 to 11:30 AM), February6, 2006.

— on Shaw TV, Vancouver, Studio 4, “Fanny Kiefer Show,” host FannyKiefer, interview about historical chronology, February 8, 2006 in Van-couver (Channel 4), February 9, 2006 in Victoria (Channel 11).

— on TVR Cultural (Romanian Television), telephone interview abouthistorical chronology, host Raluca Rogojina, taped February 11, 2006,aired February 12, 2006.

— on CKNW Radio, Vancouver, telephone interview about historicalchronology, host John McHolm, live, February 28, 2006.

— on CFAX Radio, Victoria, at “News PM,” host Terry Moore, tele-phone interview about historical chronology (live 5:10 to 5:30 PM),March 7, 2006.

— on CFUV Radio, Victoria, “Insights,” host Mary Ruth Snyder, onehour live interview (10:00–11:00 AM) about historical chronology, April12, 2006.

— on CH News, Channel 6, Victoria, interview on lottery odds, tapedand aired on May 5, 2006.

— on Multicultural Channel, Channel 10, interview on “The LostMillennium,” taped on May 5, 2006 and aired on May 23 and 27.

— on RIC Radio, Sweden, one-hour telephone interview about historicalchronology, host Henrik Palmgren, December 10, 2006.

— on A-Channel Television Channel 12, Victoria, evening-news inter-view about lottery odds, host Tara Fedun, taped and aired on December29, 2006.

— on Radio One Network, Phoenix, Arizona, two-hour live talk showabout historical chronology, host Kevin Smith on “The Kevin SmithShow,” (7 to 9 PM PST) January 11, 2007.

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Newspaper interviews and articles that mention my work:

— Neuer Weg, December 19, 1987, p. 5, “A celestial mechanician at homein Medias,” by Hannelore Baier (in German)

— The Ring (University of Victoria), July 15, 1994, “Honours in his na-tive land, freedom in CanadaLuck follows young mathematician fromRomania” by Donna Danylchuk.

— Jurnalul Afacerilor, 6, 288 (38), 1996, “A unique book,” by NicolinaGarici (in Romanian)

— Rondul, July 27, 1996, “A native of Sibiu uncovers the mysteries ofchaos,” by Dorin Teodorescu (in Romanian)

— Scientific American, February 1997, “Prize Mistake,” by ChristophPoppe and Madhusree Mukerjee.

— The Times Colonist (Victoria), May 20, 1999, “Prof makes sense ofchaos,” by Patrick Murphy.

— The New York Times, December 21, 1999, “Jurgen Moser, WhoProved Celestial Theory, Dies at 71,” by Sylvia Nasar.

— The Gateway (University of Calgary), October 21, 2004, vol. XCIV,no. 13, “History 1,000 years too long, researcher says,” by NatalieClimenhaga.

— Macleans Magazine, December 19, 2005, “Does Anybody Really KnowWhat Time It Is?” by Brian Bethune.

— The Globe and Mail, December 24, 2005, “The Times They Are A-Changin” by Allan Levine.

— The Ring (University of Victoria) January 6, 2006, “Time Lapse” byJessical Gillies.

— The Telegramm (St. John’s), January 26, 2006, “No time like thepresent,” by John Mckay.

— Winnipeg Free Press, January 22, 2006, “Book Review: The LostMillennium,” by John Mckay.

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— The Hamilton Spectator, January 28, 2006, “Book Review: The LostMillennium,” by John Mckay.

— The Windsor Star, January 28, 2006, “Book Review: The Lost Mil-lennium,” by John Mckay.

— The Toronto Sun, January 29, 2006, “Book Review: The Lost Millen-nium,” by John Mckay.

— The Brandon Sun, January 29, 2006, “Book Review: The Lost Mil-lennium,” by John Mckay.

— The Times-Colonist (Victoria), January 30, 2006, “Book Review: TheLost Millennium,” by John Mckay.

— Canada.com, January 30, 2006, “Book Review: The Lost Millennium,”by John Mckay.

— The Leader-Post (Regina), February 1, 2006, “Book Review: The LostMillennium,” by John Mckay.

— The Toronto Star, February 4, 2006, “Mathematician asks: is our his-tory wrong?” by Judy Stoffman (in the series BEAUTIFUL MINDS).

— The London Free Press, February 11, 2006, “How could 1,000 yearsgo missing?” by John MacKay.

— FOCUS: Victoria’s Magazine of People, Ideas and Culture,March 1, 2006, vol. 18. no. 6. “The trouble with history–an interviewwith Dr. Florin Diacu,” by Sara Cassidy, pp. 30-32.

— Metro Toronto, March 6, 2006, p. 26. “History rewrite might benecessary, author says,” by Rick McGinnis.

— The Edmonton Journal, March 8, 2006. “Is there a wrinkle in time?”by Marc Horton.

— Observatorul: Romanian-Canadian Digest of Toronto, March11, 2006, p. 18, “The Lost Millennium,” by Alexandra Cristea (inRomanian).

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— The Times-Colonist (Victoria), April 2, 2006, p. D11. “Just a minute .. . : Victoria mathematician ponders the possibility that we’re actuallyliving in the 10th or 11th century AD,” by Diane Dakers.

— Victoria News, April 14, 2006. “Are you descendant from Jesus?” byMark Browne.

Hobbies:

— reading (fiction and nonfiction: a list of recent readings available uponrequest)

— fitness workouts

— distance running (participant in 10 km and half-marathon races)

— hiking, downhill and cross-country skiing, snowshoeing

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