VARIATIONAL INTEGRATORS IN NONHOLONOMIC AND VAKONOMIC MECHANICS: an exploratory workshop
Real Academia de Ciencias and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
September, 16-18 2009
PROGRAM
Update: full talks and posters here.
Wednesday 16 September 2009
10:00-11:00 Pedro L. García: (Universidad de Salamanca): Variational Integrators in Discrete Mechanics
11:00-12:00 Manuel de León (Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, ICMAT; CSIC): A historical review on nonholomic and vakonomic mechanics
12:00-12:30 Coffee break
12:30-13:30 Sergio Blanes (Instituto de Matemática Multidisciplinar, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia): Geometric Integrators for non-autonomous dynamical systems
Lunch
16:00-17:00 David Martín de Diego (Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, ICMAT; CSIC): Discrete nonholonomic mechanics: Global and local descriptions
17:00-18:00 César Rodrigo (Instituto Militar de Lisboa): Variational Integrators in vakonomic Mechanics
18:00-19:00 Coffee break and Poster session
Thursday 17 September 2009
10:00-11:00 Eduardo Martínez (Universidad de Zaragoza): Optimal Control on Lie Groupoids
11:00-12:00 Ari Stern (University of California): Discrete Hamilton-Pontryagin mechanics and generating functions on Lie groupoids
12:00-12:30 Coffee break
12:30-13:30 Juan Carlos Marrero (Universidad de La Laguna): The exact discrete Lagrangian function on a Lie groupoid
Lunch
16:00-17:00 Miguel Muñoz-Lecanda (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña): Geometric approach to higher order maximum principle
17:00-18:00 Antonio Fernández (Universidad de Salamanca): Variational Integrators in Optimal Control Theory
18:00-19:00 Coffee break and Poster session
Friday 18 September 2009
10:00-11:00 Marco Castrillón-López (Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, ICMAT; Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Field Theories: Reduction, constraints and variational integrators
11:00-12:00 Ana C. Malheiro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): First variation formula for discrete variational problems in two independent variables.
12:00-12:30 Coffee break
12:30-13:30 Final discussion and closure