Nonlinear Workshops

Time: Mondays 1:00-1:55 pm (unless indicated otherwise)
Location: VC's Room, Queen's building
Bring your own lunch!

Analysis of Piecewise Smooth Systems and their Applications

Piecewise smooth systems are often used in many area of science and Engineering to model systems of interest in applications. In this term's Nonlinear Workshops experts from around the country will give talks on different aspects of this field.

• Monday 27th October:

  Dr. D. Chillingworth (Faculty of Mathematical Studies, University of Southampton)
  • "Global phase space geometry for an impact oscillator"

• Friday 31st October:

  Prof. V. Babitsky (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Loughborough University)
  • "Nonlinear Phenomena and Smart Dynamical Structures"

  NOTE:Friday seminar: Time & Place to follow

• Monday 3rd November:

  Prof. E. P. Ryan (School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath)
  • "An Integral Invariance Principle with Applications in Adaptive Control"

• Monday 10th November:

  cancelled

• Monday 17th November:

  Dr T. Prellberg(Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester)
  • "Dynamics of a single particle in a horizontally shaken box"

• Tuesday 25th November:
  4.00 pm, Andrew Robertson Room, Queen's Building
  

  Prof. M. P. Kennedy (Department of Electronic and Electrical engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland)
  • "Communicating with Chaos"

  NOTE: Change of venue and date !

• Monday 1st December:

  Dr. J. Deane (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Surrey)
  • "The calculation of spectral properties of a simple chaotic waveform"

Here is a List of Seminar Series (with links) in Engineering and other Faculties.

Topics Previously Covered:

• Biology: Spring '97
• Autumn '96
• Visitors: Summer '96
• Continuation: Winter Term '96
• Wavelets: Autumn Term '95

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