The 7th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems and

 Differential Equations

University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA
May 18 - 21, 2008

Special Session

Nonholonomic constraints in Mechanics and

Optimal Control Theory

Organized by: 

M. de Leon (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain)

J.C. Marrero (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)

D. Martin de Diego (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain)

 

May 18, Sunday PM Sessions   

Conservation laws in non-holonomic mechanics from non-symmetries 

Willy Sarlet, Ghent University, Belgium

13:30-14:00

 

Non-Abelian Routh reduction and relative equilibria

Tom Mestdag, University of Michigan, USA

14:00-14:30

Presentation

Geometry of variational nonholonomic Lagrangian systems with symmetries

Juan Carlos Marrero, University of La Laguna

14:30-15:00

Presentation

 

 

May 19, Monday AM Sessions 

 

Reduction of Almost Poisson Brackets

Luis C Garcia-Naranjo, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

8:00-8:30

Presentation

A Generalization of the Poincaré-Cartan IntegralInvariant for a Nonlinear Nonholonomic Dynamical System

Nasser Ahmed and Muhammad Usman, University of Dayton, USA

8:30-9:00

Presentation

Towards better understanding the behaviours of rattlebacks

George W. Patrick, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

9:00-9:30

Presentation

Symmetry analysis of nonholonomic eld theories

Joris Vankerschaver, California Institute of Technology, USA

9.30-10:00

Presentation

 

 

May 19, Monday PM Sessions 

 

Nonholonomic Systems, Dissipation and Quantization

Anthony M. Bloch, University of Michigan, USA

13:30-14:00

Presentation

Strict abnormal extremal in nonholonomic and kinematic control systems

María Babero-Liñán  and Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

14:00-14:30

Presentation

A presymplectic approach to Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation

Manuel de León, Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, CSIC, Spain

14:30-15:00

Presentation

A momentum-energy integrator for nonholonomic mechanical systems with symmetry

Sebastián J Ferraro, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina

15:00-15:30

Presentation

 

 

May 19, Monday PM Sessions  

 

Stability of Relative Equilibria of Discrete Nonholonomic Systems

Dmitry Zenkov , North Carolina State University, USA

16:00-16:30

 

New developments in Geometric Integration of Nonholonomic Systems

David Martín de Diego, , Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas, CSIC, Spain

16:30-17:00

Presentation

Geometric Discretization of Nonholonomic Systems with Symmetries

Marin Kobilarov , University of Southern California, USA

17:00-17:30