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CDS 280 -- Spring 2006 Third Term Advanced Topics in Geometric Mechanics Prerequisites: Variable Schedule of Lectures on Wednesdays, except for Week 6 when the class will be held on Thursday (for that week only). Mar 29: Week 1 11h00 - 12h00 13h00 - 14h00 - No Meeting - - No Meeting - Apr 5: Week 2 11h00 - 12h00 13h00 - 14h00 - No Meeting - - No Meeting - Apr 12: Week 3 12h00 - 13h30 CDS280/CIMMS Lunchtime Talk: Discrete Mechanics, Optimal Control and Formation Flying Spacecraft Dr. Oliver Junge Apr 19: Week 4 12h00 - 13h30 CDS280/CIMMS Lunchtime Talk: Set Oriented Numerics in Dynamics and Optimization Dr. Michael Dellnitz Apr 26: Week 5 11h00 - 12h00 13h00 - 14h00 DMOC - Applications and Future Directions The Hunter--Saxton Equation: A Geometric Approach Sina Ober-Blöbaum Jonatan Lenells Thursday May 4: Week 6 11h00 - 12h00 13h00 - 14h00 [ please note the change of day ] No talk at 11AM Linear Equations and Lie Quadratics Dr. Lyle Noakes May 10: Week 7 12h00 - 13h30 CDS/CIMMS Seminar: Nested Stochastic Simulation Algorithm for Kinetic Monte Carlo Systems with Disparate Rates Eric Vanden-Eijnden May 17: Week 8 11h00 - 12h00 13h00 - 14h00 Stability picture for problems with spatially inhomogeneous basic states Celestial Mechanics Meets Vortex Dynamics Rouslan Krechetnikov Shane Ross May 24: Week 9 11h00 - 11h30 11h30 - 12h00 13h00 - 14h00 Saddle Transport Phenomena: Scattering Reactions with 3 or more Degrees of Freedom Applications of DMOC: The 2D Diver and the Falling Cat Formation Flying and Optimal Control for New World Observer Steve Brunton James Martin Egemen Kolemen May 31: Week 10 11h00 - 12h00 13h00 - 14h00 Continuous and Discrete Mechanics with Differential Forms Lagrange Coherent Structures (LCS): definition, properties and application examples Ari Stern Elisa Franco