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CDS 280 -- Winter 2006
Second Term
Advanced Topics in Geometric Mechanics
Prerequisites
: Variable
Schedule of Lectures on Tuesdays
Jan 10: Week 1
12h30 - 13h30
14h00 - 15h00
Lagrangian Coherent Structures
- Open Forum -
Phillip Du Toit
Jan 17: Week 2
12h30 - 13h30
14h00 - 15h00
On Low Dimensional Modeling of Physical Systems
- Open Forum -
Rouslan Krechetnikov
Jan 24: Week 3
12h30 - 13h30
14h00 - 15h00
Gyration-Radius Dynamics of Atomic Clusters and Polymers
Dirac Structures and the Legendre Transformation for Implicit Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Systems
Tomorhiro Yanao
Hiroaki Yoshimura
Jan 31: Week 4
12h30 - 13h30
14h00 - 15h00
Stress-Energy-Momentum Tensors
Characterization of Yang--Mills--Higgs Equations
Mark Gotay
Marco Castrillon Lopez
Feb 07: Week 5
12h30 - 13h30
14h00 - 15h00
N-linked Locomotion in Stokes Flows
(ppt)
(pdf)
Desingularization of Implicit Analytic Differential Equations
(pdf)
Jair Koiller
Hernan Cendra
Feb 14: Week 6
12h30 - 13h30
14h00 - 15h00
No Meeting
Molecular Systems Group Meeting
Feb 21: Week 7
12h30 - 13h30
14h00 - 15h00
TBA
Integrable Flows on the Symplectic Group
Paul Skerrit
Tudor Ratiu
Feb 28: Week 8
14h00 - 15h00
Pursuit, Stealth and Cohesion: Lessons from Nature
P.S. Krishnaprasad
Mar 07: Week 9
12h30 - 13h30
14h00 - 15h00
Unraveling DNA with Variational Integrators
Fast Lie Algebra Variational Integrators
Phillip Du Toit
Nawaf Bou-Rabee
Mar 14: Week 10
TBA