Research group Differential geometry and mechanics
Current research topics
Differential geometry applied to problems in mechanics and to the study of dynamical systems.
- separability of systems of second-order equations
- derivations of forms along a map
- modelling of non-holonomic mechanics
- geometric control theory
- Lagrangian mechanics on Lie algebroids
- generalisations of bi-Hamiltonian systems
- the inverse problem of Lagrangian mechanics
- symmetry and reduction of mechanical systems
- theory and applications of connections
- classical (nonholonomic) field theory
- geometric fluid dynamics and control
