Description

The Young Researchers Workshop in Geometry, Mechanics, and Control is a yearly event to promote young researchers in the field of differential geometry and its relations to mechanics and control theory.  The 17th edition takes place in Leuven, Belgium. The workshop features three mini-courses in key topics in the field, selected talks proposed by the participants and a session with 5-to-10-minutes presentations.  This event is targeted to all researchers in the field, with an emphasis on young participants (doctoral students and postdocs).

Registration

Registration is free but compulsory. The registration is now closed.
A list of registered participants is available here. 

There were two deadlines:

  • Deadline to propose a 30-minutes talk or a quick presentation in the gong session: Monday January  30th, 2023 
  • Deadline for participation only (without proposing a talk or presentation): Monday February 27th, 2023.

Minicourses

The abstracts of the three minicourese are available here.

  • Geometry: Chiara Esposito (Università di Salerno)
    Title: Reduction theory: symplectic, algebraic, coisotropic....
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  • Mechanics: Azahara de la Torre Pedraza  (Università La Sapienza, online) 
    Title:  The fractional Yamabe problem with singularities
     
  • Control: Maryam Kamgarpour (EPFL Lausanne)
    Title:  Learning in multi-agent games

Contributed talks

There will be 8 contributed talks (30 minutes each). The abstracts are available here.

  • Miguel Berbel: Reduction of a covariant bracket formulation of field theory. 
  • Leonardo Francisco Cavenaghi: Fat bundles and dual leaf theorem. 
  • Sadashige Ishida: Hidden degrees of freedom in implicit curve dynamics. 
  • Manuel Lainz: The Herglotz principle for fields. 
  • Asier López-Gordón: Liouville-Arnold theorem for contact Hamiltonian systems.
  • Antonio Michele Miti: Symmetries and reduction of multisymplectic manifolds. 
  • Duvan Cardona Sanchez: Control theory for diffusion models on compact manifolds without boundary. 
  • Mats Vermeeren: A variational principle for integrable systems. 

Gong session

We are planning a gong session: a session where every speaker has a short amount of time (about 8 minutes) to present the main ideas of a project. The abstracts are available here.

  • Mateo Anarella: Infinitesimally helicoidal motions with fixed pitch of oriented geodesics of a space form.
  • Andrew Beckett: Homogeneous symplectic spaces
  • Wouter Jongeneel: On continuation and convex Lyapunov functions.
  • Martijn Kluitenberg: Spectral aspects of magnetic fields via subRiemannian geometry.
  • Ixchel Dzohara Gutierrez Rodriguez: Lorentzian Bach-flat metrics with Heisenberg geometry in dimension four.

Schedule

The schedule is available here.

Location

All talks will take place in room 01.02 (Aula van de Tweede Hoofdwet) in the Thermotechnisch Instituut, located at Kasteelpark Arenberg 41, 3001 Leuven. An entrance to the building is here. 

On the first day, one of the organizers will wait here from 8:45 am (at the green "meeting point" sign right at the beginning  of the grass field in front of the castle). We will start walking towards the lecture hall at 9:00 am. 

Parking lot "De Molen", Kasteelpark Arenberg 50, 3001 Leuven, can be used to park your car. Please enter the code 2571# to enter and leave the parking lot.

 

Practical information and a description on how to reach Leuven can be found here.

To reach the workshop location by bus from the Leuven train station: 
​​​​​​go to the bus station just next to the train station, and catch bus 2 in direction "Heverlee Campus". Get off at the stop Kantineplein, from which you can see the facade of the Arenberg Castle. The bus leaves approximately every 7 minutes, and the trip takes about 20 minutes.  You can buy tickets online, or also on the bus, see here.

Accomodation

A selection of affordable options is the following:

Youth Hostel De Blauwput (just behind the train station)

Leuven City Hostel (in the center)

Hotel Ibis Budget Leuven Centrum (just behind the train station) 

Hotel La Royale (in front of the train station)

Hotel ladeuze (in the center)

 Herman Servotte and Viking (university Residence Halls, which you can book using this link)

Shortstay Leuven  (apartments)

Organisation and Contact

Organizing committee:

  • Tom Mestdag (University of Antwerp) 
  • Gabriel Sevestre (KU Leuven)
  • Karandeep Singh (KU Leuven)
  • Vanhoolant Isabelle (KU Leuven)
  • Marco Zambon (KU Leuven)

Scientific Committee:

Contact:
Marco Zambon

Past editions

 

 

       

 

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