My first PhD student, Taeyoung Lee, successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled, “Computational Geometric Mechanics and Control of Rigid Bodies,” on May 8, 2008.
He was jointly co-advised by Prof. N. Harris McClamroch. The other members of the doctoral committee were Prof. Anthony Bloch, Prof. Jessy Grizzle, and Prof. Daniel Scheeres.
Amongst Taeyoung’s many honors, he recently received the Distinguished Achievement Award and the Ivor K. McIvor Award (outstanding research in applied mechanics) from the College of Engineering, University of Michigan.
Taeyoung will be starting an assistant professorship in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology in Fall of 2008.
Diana Sosa Martín, who recently received her PhD in Mathematics from the University of La Laguna in Spain, will be joining Purdue University as a visiting assistant professor for the 2008/2009 academic year. Her research interests include geometric mechanics on Lie groupoids and algebroids.
Tomoki Ohsawa, a mathematics graduate student at the University of Michigan, will be visiting the group during the summer of 2008. His advisor at Michigan is Prof. Anthony Bloch.
Charles Roldan, an undergraduate mathematics major and physics minor, will be returning in his second summer as a NSF REU student.
Wooi-Chen Ng, an undergraduate computer science major, will be joining the group as a summer undergraduate research assistant.
For candidates interested in joining the Computational Geometric Mechanics @ Purdue group, research positions for postdoctoral scholars and graduate students in the broad area of geometric numerical methods in geometric mechanics and control remain available. Please contact Prof. Melvin Leok for further details.