PRESENTATIONS
Control of DNA Divsion
- Control of a Model of DNA Division via Parametric Resonance, Telluride Workshop on Geometric of Chemical Reaction Dynamics in Gas and Condensed Phases, Telluride, Colorado, June 10-14, 2013. (pdf)
- Control of a Model of DNA Division via Parametric Resonance, Control and Dynamical System, Caltech, November 15, 2012. (pdf)
- Control of a Model of DNA Division via Parametric Resonance, Conference on Geometric, Symmetry, Dynamics, and Control: The Legacy of Jerry Marsden, July 23-27, 2012, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada. (pdf)
- Resonant Actuation of a Model of DNA Division, College of Engineering, Peking University, China, November 22, 2011
- Resonant Actuation of a Model of DNA Division, Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech, October 11, 2011
Chemical Reaction Dynamics
- Collective Coordinates and Driving Mechanisms for Conformational Transitions of Complex Molecules, The Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation 2007 Seminar Series, University of California at Santa Barbara, April 6, 2007. (pdf)
- Application of Tube Dynamics to Non-statistical Reaction Processes, International Workshop on Critical Stability of Few-Body Quantum Systems, October 17-22, 2005, Max-Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany. (pdf)
- Theory and Computation of Non-RRKM Reaction Rates in Chemical Systems with 3 or More Degrees of Freedom, SIAM Conference on Application of Dynamcial Systems, May 22-26, 2005, Snowbird, Utah, USA. (pdf)
Astrodynamics and Space Mission Design
- Design of Low Energy Space Missions using Dynamical Systems Theory, invited speaker at the CIMMS Workshop on Engineering in the Space Sciences: Dynamics, Computations, Communications, and Autonomy,October 7-8, 2004,Caltech (pdf)
- Tube Dynamics, Lobe Dynamics, and a Low Energy Tour of Jupiter's Moons, invited speaker at the International Symposium on Geometrical Structures of Phase Space in Multi-Dimensional Chaos: Applications to Chemical Reaction Dynamics in Complex Systems, October 2003, Kyoto, Japan.
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- Invariant Manifolds, the Spatial Three-Body Problem and Petit Grand Tour of Jovian Moons, invited speaker at the International Conference on Libration Point Orbits and Applications, June 2002, Parador d'Aiguablava, Spain. (pdf)
- J2 Dynamics and Formation Flight, invited speaker at the Invariant and Symmetry-Preserving Integrators for N-Body Simulation, University of Leicester, April 25-26, 2002.
- Invariant Manifolds, the Three-Body Problem and Low Energy Transfer to the Moon, invited speaker at the Astrodynamics Workshop, University of Surrey, April 22-23, 2002.
- Invariant Manifolds, the Three-Body Problem and a Petit Grand Tour of Jovian Moons, invited speaker at the Workshop on Classical N-Body Systems and Applications, Mathematics Research Center, University of Warwick, April 14-20, 2002.
- Invariant Manifolds, the Three-Body Problem and a Petit Grand Tour of Jovian Moons, invited speaker at the Workshop on Dynamical Systems in Celestial Mechanics and Climate Dynamics, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications,University of Minnesota, October 29-November 2, 2001.
- J2 Dynamics and Formation Flight, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August, 2001. (pdf)
- Invariant Manifolds, the Spatial Three-Body Problem and Space Mission Design, AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Meeting, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, August, 2001. (pdf)
- Low Energy Transfer to the Moon, invited speaker at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society - Division on Dynamical Astronomy, April 22-25, 2001, Houston, Texas.(pdf)
- Comets, Nonlinear Dynamics and Space Mission Design, Applied Mathematics Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, February 27, 2001.
- Halo Orbit Mission Correction Maneuvers Using Optimal Control, Applied Mathematics Seminar, Department of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, September 8, 2000.
- Dynamical Systems, Three-Body Problem and Space Mission Design, Physics Seminar, Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University, September 7, 2000.
- Dynamical Systems, Three-Body Problem and Space Mission Design, Mathematics Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Techonology, September 4, 2000.
- Optimal Control for Halo Orbit Missions, SIAM Pacific Rim Dynamical Systems Conference, August 9-13, 2000, Maui, Hawaii, USA.
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- Dynamical Systems, Three-Body Problem and Space Mission Design, invited speaker at US-European Celestial Mechanics Workshop, July 3-7, 2000, Poznan, Poland. (pdf) (mpg1) (mpg2).
- Comets, Nonlinear Dynamics and Space Mission Design, Applied Mathematics Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Davis, June 1999.
- Heteroclinic Connections between Periodic Orbits and Resonance Transitions in Celestial Mechanics, Fifth SIAM Conference on Application of Dynamcial Systems, May 23-27, 1999, Snowbird, Utah, USA. (pdf) (mpg1) (mpg2) (mpg3).
- Heteroclinic Connections between Periodic Orbits and Resonance Transitions in Celestial Mechanics, Control and Dynamical Systems Seminar, February 1999, California Institute of Technology.
Nonholonomic Mechanics
- The Poisson Reduction of Nonholonomic Mechanical Systems, AFSOR/Caltech Workshop on Mechanics, Dynamics and Control, December 1997, California Institute of Technology.
- The Geometric Structure of Nonholonomic Mechanics, 36th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 1997, San Diego, California.
- The Poisson Reduction of Nonholonomic Mechanical Systems, Workshop on Nonholonomic Constraints in Dynamics, August 1997, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
- Optimal Control for Holonomic and Nonholonomic Mechanical Systems with Symmetry, AMS 1997 Summer Research Institute on Differential Geometry and Contro, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
- The Poisson Reduction of Nonholonomic Mechanical Systems, Fourth SIAM Conference on Application of Dynamcial Systems, May 1997, Snowbird, Utah, USA.
- The Hamiltonian and Lagrangian Approaches to the Dynamics of Nonholonomic Systems, seminar at Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, April 1997, University of Pennsylvania.
- Optimal Control for Holonomic and Nonholonomic Mechanical Systems with Symmetry, Control and Dynamical Systems Seminar, October 1995, California ofInstitute of Technology.