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2008-2009
SPRING 2009
CDS 280c



Meetings will be in the Steele Library (114 Steele) on Mondays from 2:30-4pm unless otherwise noted.

DATE TIME LECTURE SPEAKER
Monday, March 30
2:30-4pm
  Organizational meeting
 
Monday, April 6th
2:30-4pm
  Approximate energy conservation for symplectic time semidiscretizations of semilinear Hamiltonian PDEs.
  (Abstract)
  Claudia Wulff, Surrey
Monday, April 13th
2:30-4pm   The Hamilton-Pontryagin principle for Classical Field theories.   (Abstract)
  Joris Vankershaver (Caltech)
Monday, April 20th
2:30-4pm
  Particle methods for the EPDiff equation.   (Abstract)
  Alina Chertock (NC State)
Monday, April 27th
2:30-4pm
Extending the group of symmetries of a Lagrangian to the full gauge group   (Abstract)   Marco Castrillon-Lopez

University of Madrid


Monday, May 4th
2:30-4pm
  No Meeting in Lieu of the Structured Integrator Workhop this Week
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Postponed
2:30-4pm
  Cardiovasular fluid dynamics modeling---a lecture by Mark Alber, followed by discussions by Alison Marsden (UCSD) and Shawn Shadden (Stanford and IIT).
  Mark Alber Notre Dame
Monday, May 18th
2:30-4pm
  A Short Proof of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle on Manifolds (Abstract)
  Dong Eui Chang, Waterloo
Tuesday, May 26th
2:30-4pm
  Geometric Quantization and Symplectic Reduction (Note the special day)
  Paul Skerritt




2008-2009
FALL 2008
CDS 280a


Meetings will be in the Steele Library (114 Steele) unless otherwise noted.


DATE TIME LECTURE SPEAKER
Thursday Oct 2
12-2pm
Organizational meeting

Thursday Oct 9
12-2pm
Dynamical boundaries in a variety of mechanical systems, Abstract
Shane Ross, Virginia Tech
Thursday Oct 16
12-2pm
Invariant manifolds and DMOC; optimization of spacecraft trajectories with a focus on ``shoot the moon''
Ashley Moore
Thursday Oct 23
12-2pm
No meeting

Thursday Oct 30
12-2pm
Dynamics, geometry and stability of low Reynolds number swimming near a plane wall;
Yizhar Or
Thursday Nov 6
12-2pm
Understanding chromatin folding and regulation through mesoscale modeling and simulation;
Gaurav Arya (UC San Diego)
Thursday Nov 13
12-2pm
Optimal Prediction for Molecular Systems at Constant Temperature (tentative)
Carsten Hartmann (FU Berlin)
Tuesday, Nov 18
12-2pm
Multiscale Modeling in Biology; Abstract
Mark Alber (Notre Dame)
Wednesday, Nov 19
2-3pm, Room 214
Discrete Dirac Structures and Variational Discrete Dirac Mechanics
Melvin Leok (Purdue)
Thursday Nov 27

Thanksgiving Holiday

Thursday Dec 4
12-2pm
Geometric Discretization of Lagrangian Mechanics and Field Theories
Ari Stern
Thursday Dec 11
12-2pm
Reduced-order models for fluids, using approximate balanced truncation and dynamically scaling modes
Clancy Rowley, Princeton




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