University of California, Irvine
Department of Mathematics
Distinguished Lecture Series
2008-2009

Jerrold Marsden
Carl F. Braun Professor
Caltech

Jerrold Marsden is currently the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering and Control & Dynamical Systems at Caltech. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of London. He was the SIAM von Neumann Prize winner in 2005, the winner of the Max Planck Research Award for Mathematics and Computer Science in 2000 and the recipient of the Jeffery-Williams Prize in 1981. Dr. Marsden is one of the leading authorities in mathematical and theoretical classical mechanics and has laid much of the foundation for symplectic topology.

DMOC: Discrete Mechanics and Optimal Control
Wednesday, October 22nd
Reception: 3:30pm
Public Lecture: 4:00pm
Rowland Hall 306

Lagrangian Coherent Structures: Hurricanes, Ocean Dynamics, Jellyfish
Thursday, October 23rd
Reception: 2:30pm
Public Lecture: 3:00pm
NS2 Room 1201

For information contact Siran Kousherian at (949) 824-5502 or skousher@math.uci.edu http://www.math.uci.edu/