Description of the event

In celebration of Francesco Fassò’s 70th birthday and in honour of his contributions to mathematical physics, his former students Sara Galasso and Nicola Sansonetto, together with his colleague Luis García-Naranjo, are organising this special meeting where we will host a series of talks on some of his topics of interest.

Francesco is best known for his contributions on the global structure of non-commutative integrable systems, Hamiltonian perturbation theory, rigid body dynamics and nonholonomic mechanics. For those of us who know him closely, Francesco is an inspiration for his commitment to research, teaching and improvement of the University, all with exemplary integrity. We look forward to this celebration of Francesco’s career!

Location and dates

Where: Department of Mathematics Tullio Levi-Civita, 

University of Padova - Italy, via Trieste 63, Padova

When: Friday January 30th and the morning of Saturday January 31st, 2026 

Invited speakers

Dario Bambusi (Univ Milano)

Larry Bates (Univ Calgary)

Giancarlo Benettin (Univ Padova)

Elena Celledoni* (NTNU Trondheim)

Alessandra Celletti (Univ Roma Tor Vergata)

Holger Dullin (Univ Sidney)

Andrea Giacobbe (Univ Catania)

Massimiliano Guzzo (Univ Padova)

Heinz Hansmann (Univ Utrecht)

Sonja Hohloch (Univ Antwerp)

Boris Khesin (Univ Toronto)

James Montaldi (Univ Manchester)

San Vu Ngoc (Univ Rennes)

Tudor Ratiu (Univ Shanghai Jiao Tong)

Marta Zoppello (Politecnico Torino)

(*) To be Confirmed

Related event
Stability of Hamiltonian Systems and Beyond

Organizing and Scientific committee

Sara Galasso (Università di Padova)

Luis Garcia-Naranjo (Università di Padova)

Nicola Sansonetto (Università di Verona)

How to participate

If you would like to take part in FassòFest, please send an email to nicola.sansonetto (at) univr.it  by 30/11/2025 (unless you have already indicated your desire to participate through the registration form for the conference "Stability of Hamiltonian Systems and Beyond”)

Contact

nicola.sansonetto (at) univr.it