Under construction

Proposed new courses, in some sense replacing the irregularly offered courses on intro to diff geom and into mathematical control. These are subject to final approval.

If things go well they will be offered for the first time starting Spring 2009. Please contact Matthias Kawski as soon as possible if you are interested in these courses.

Confirmed: new time TuTh 3:00-4:15
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course announcement FLYER
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APM 581 Geometry and Control of Dynamical Systems I
Differential systems on manifolds, tangent bundle, Lie algebra tools, controllability, observability, feedback and stabilization, topological constraints.
Prereqs: 501-504 or equivalent or consent of instructor.

APM 582 Geometry and Control of Dynamical Systems II
Hamiltonian systems, variational principles, tools from symplectic geometry and Lie groups, continuous symmetries, reduction, geometry of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle, curvature.
Prereqs: 501-504 or equivalent or consent of instructor.


The WWW-site will likely not be updated until the New Year, but do not hesitate to ask (e-mail or stop by my office) if you have any questions, concerns, suggestions.

Till then take a look at what we did in previous years in differential geometry and in mathematical control