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Applications in Mechanics and Control

Thu/Fri, December 7-8, 2006
Laufer Library, Rapp building, USC


THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2006 MORNING SESSION

09:00-9:20 OPENING REMARKS
Paul Newton, University of Southern California

09:30-9:50 Wu's Results on the Swimming of a Waving Plate
Eva Kanso, University of Southern California

10:00-10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30-10:50 Simulating Fish Schools: A Discrete Model and Its Associated ODEs
Alethea Barbaro, University of California, Santa Barbara

11:00-11:20 Configuration Control of Systems of Particles
Sujit Nair, University of Southern California

11:30-11:50 Experiments on Fluid Dynamic Stability
John Mcarthur, University of Southern California


THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2006 AFTERNOON SESSION

14:00-14:20 Applications of optimal control in space mission design and for motion of sports
Sina Ober-bl"{o}baum, Paderborn University

14:30-14:50 Applications of Hamiltonian dynamical systems and celestial mechanics in classical molecular dynamics
Florence Lin, University of Southern California

15:00-15:30 COFFEE BREAK
15:30-15:50 Space mission design: applications of dynamical systems in celestial mechanics
Stefano Campagnola, University of Southern California

16:00-16:20 Dynamics and Control of a Particle Moving on Rotating Earth
Fangxu Jing, University of Southern California

16:30-16:50 Optimal control of mobile robots in constrained environments
Marin Kobilarov, University of Southern California


FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2006 MORNING SESSION

09:00-9:20 Ensemble Kalman Filters for the Identification of Stochastic Nonlinear Systems
George Saad, University of Southern California

09:30-9:50 Various mechanical integrators for constrained dynamical systems
Sigrid Leyendecker, California Institute of Technology

10:00-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:20 Vortex lattice crystals
George Chamoun, University of Southern California

11:30-11:50 Geometric Variational Integrators for Computer Animation
Liliya Kharevych, California Institute of Technology