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Beckman Institute Auditorium
400 S. Wilson Ave
Building #74, Room 134

Fri/Sat October 3 - 4, 2003
Fri 8:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Sat 8:45 AM - 2:15 PM


Contact
cimms-dgm@caltech.edu

Organizers
(Caltech)
Jerrold E. Marsden
Anil N. Hirani
Melvin Leok
Arash Yavari

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CIMMS focused workshop on
Discrete Geometry for Mechanics

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Schedule

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2003
lunch
today
08:30-08:45 WELCOME / OPENING ADDRESS
08:45-09:30 Mathieu Desbrun, University of Southern California
Discrete Geometry for Graphics and Beyond
[ desbrun_slides ] (pdf)
09:30-09:45 BREAK
09:45-10:30 Jerrold Marsden, California Institute of Technology
Discrete Exterior Calculus and Classical Field Theory
10:30-11:15 Jenny Harrison, University of California Berkeley
New Models for Discrete Exterior calculus with Convergence to the Continuum
11:15-11:30 BREAK
11:30-12:15 Robin Forman, Rice University
Some Aspects of Combinatorial Differential Topology and Geometry
12:15-13:30 LUNCH


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2003
08:45-09:30 Marino Arroyo, California Institute of Technology
Finite Elasticity of Curved Lattices: Application to Carbon Nanotubes
[ arroyo_slides ] (pdf)
09:30-09:45 BREAK
09:45-10:30 Alain Bossavit, CNRS
On the construction of Whitney Forms
[ bossavit_slides ] (pdf)
10:30-11:15 Alan Weinstein, University of California Berkeley
Groupoids and Discrete Geometry
11:15-11:30 BREAK
11:30-12:15 Yuri Suris, Technische Universitaet Berlin
Discrete Integrability in Geometry and Numerics: Consistency and Approximation
12:15-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:15 Peter Schröder, California Institute of Technology
Smooth Curves and Surfaces through Repeated Discrete Refinement
[ schroder.qt ] (Quicktime)