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TUDOR RATIU
Section de
Mathématiques
Faculté des Sciences de Base
EPFL, Lausanne
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Symmetry in geometric mechanics and dynamics
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This course
presents the basic notions of geometric mechanics: Hamiltonian systems on
symplectic and Poisson manifolds, the momentum map, reduction theory, the
slice coordinates, the tangent-normal decomposition of a symmetric system,
relative equilibria, and the fundamental notions on linear and nonlinear
stability in the context of symmetry |
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JAIR KOILLER
Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil
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Topics in vortex dynamics
Presentation
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The mathematics of vorticity started with Euler 250 years ago. We
begin with a review of basic hydrodynamics, in the two limits, Eulerian
(no viscosity) x Stokesian (infinite viscosity). In the Eulerian realm,
vorticity forms the `sinews and muscles' for fluid motion. We focus on
2 dimensional flows, where complex variables and Riemann surfaces come
to fore. We will discuss some of the huge amount of classical and
recent literature in the area, selecting papers related to the other
minicourses.
Towards the end we will present a formulation for vortex motion on
surfaces, that we obtained in collaboration with S.Boatto.
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JUAN CARLOS MARRERO
Universidad de La Laguna
Spain
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Continuous
Mechanics and Lie algebroids
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The category of Lie algebroids has proves useful to formulate problems
in differential fields of mathematics. In the context of Mechanics an
ambitions to develop formulations of the dynamical behavior of
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems on Lie algebroids. In this talk I
will present some recent ideas in the above direction. In first part, a
Klein formalism for Lagrangian Mechanics and a symplectic formulation
for Hamiltonian Mechanics (both in the Lie algebroid setting) is
developed. The key idea is to use the prolongation of a Lie algebroid
over a fibration. In the second part, I will discuss nonholonomic
mechanical systems subjected to linear constraints on Lie algebroids.
Different examples which illustrate the resulsts will be also presented.
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DAVID MARTIN DE DIEGO
ICMAT, CSIC, Spain |
Discrete
Mechanics and groupoids
Presentation
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In this survey talk, we will give a review of discrete mechanics, which
permits the construction of geometric integrators for Lagrangian
mechanical systems. Moreover, we extend this construction to reduced
Lagrangian systems using the Lie groupoid theory. Therefore, we will
obtain geometric integrators for Euler-Poincaré equations, Lagrange-Poincaré
equations...with remarkable geometric properties.
Finally, we will extend these
constructions to the case of nonholonomic constraints.
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