February 2009


I will be on leave from Purdue University from April 2009 to mid June 2009 to visit the California Institute of Technology as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems.

Ms. Tatiana Shingel, a graduate student in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, under the research direction of Prof. Arieh Iserles, has accepted a three-year appointment as a research assistant professor of mathematics at Purdue University.

Her appointment will commence in August of 2009, and she will be affiliated with the Computational Geometric Mechanics at Purdue group. Her research expertise is in global constructive approximation and interpolation on Lie groups.

Tomoki Ohsawa, a graduate student from the University of Michigan, will be visiting the Computational Geometric Mechanics at Purdue group from mid February to early March.

His research interests are in Dirac structures and mechanics, as well as nonholonomic Hamilton-Jacobi theory.