CDS280-1: Topics in Geometric Mechanics and Dynamical Systems

Fall Term, 2003-2004

Time and Place:	W, 1:30-2:30 p.m 114 Steele (CDS Library) CDS Tea begins at 3pm Additional seminars may take place at W, 3:30-4:30, or F, 2-3
Instructor:	Jerrold Marsden marsden@cds.caltech.edu Office Hours: by email appointment
Course Coordinator:	Shane Ross shane@cds.caltech.edu Steele 11 (x4882)

Schedule

W, October 8 (1:30pm)	Frederic Gabern, Caltech	Restricted four and five body problems in the Solar System
W, October 15 (3:30pm)	Manuele Santoprete, UC Irvine	Collisions, Chaos and Periodic Orbits in the Anisotropic Manev Problem
W, October 22 (1:30pm)	Michael Leyton , Rutgers Univ.	A Generative Theory of Shape
W, October 22 (3:30pm)	Kathrin Padberg, Univ. of Paderborn, Germany	Lyapunov exponents, invariant manifolds and transport
F, October 24 (Fri, 2:00pm)	Brian Spears, UC Berkeley	Knotted tori and topological bifurcations in quasiperiodically driven oscillators
W, November 12 (1:30pm)	Anthony Bloch, Univ. of Michigan	Dynamics and Control of Oscillators and Spins Interacting with their Environment
W, November 12 (3:30pm)	Nawaf M. Bou-Rabee , Caltech	Tippe Top Inversion as a Dissipation-Induced Instability
W, November 19 (1:30pm)	Antonio Hernandez, National University of Mexico	Blowing-up near an equilibrium with non-trivial isotropy
W, November 19 (3:30pm)	Troy Smith, Caltech	Low-dimensional models of plane Couette flow using the proper orthogonal decomposition
W, December 3 (1:30pm)	Sheldon Newhouse, Michigan State Univ.	The structure of smooth diffeomorphisms of surfaces
W, December 3 (3:30pm)	Matthew Perlmutter, Univ. Tecnica de Lisboa	Reduced cotangent bundles at zero momentum
Th, December 4 (2:00pm)	Luz Vianey Vela-Arevalo, Georgia Tech	Wavelet based time-frequency analysis for phase space structure and transport