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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