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CDS 280
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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
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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