Expertise:

Mechanics, dynamics and control systems. Mechanical systems with symmetry analyzed using geometric, analytical, and computational techniques as well as dynamical systems, control theory, and bifurcation theory. Applications are made to a variety of engineering and spacecraft systems.

Research Areas:

Jerrold Marsden is a professor of Control and Dynamical Systems at Caltech. He has done extensive research in the area of geometric mechanics, with applications to rigid body systems, fluid mechanics, elasticity theory, plasma physics, as well as to general field theory. His work in dynamical systems and control theory emphasizes how it relates to mechanical systems and systems with symmetry. He is one of the original founders in the early 1970's of reduction theory for mechanical systems with symmetry, which remains an active and much studied area of research today.

News & Events:

2007:

United Technologies Award 2006

2006:

Honorary Degree University of Surrey

Fellow of the Royal Society, London

GSC Teaching and Mentoring Award, Caltech

2005:

SIAM von Neumann Lecture and Prize

2002:

Workshop on Geometry, Dynamics, and Mechanics in honour of the 60th birthday of J. E. Marsden

2000:

Max Planck Research Award