UK Nonlinear News, November 2001
A one-day research meeting was held at the Department of Engineering Mathematics University of Bristol on ``Piecewise-smooth dynamical systems and their application'' on Wed 19th Sept 2001, as part of the LMS network on Southern Bifurcation theory. The organisers were Mario di Bernardo, Martin Homer and Alan Champneys.
An audience of approximately 25 heard an interesting mix of pure and applied talks on this timely topic, the programme of which is below. There are plans to publish a special issue of the Journal of Dynamical Systems (formally Journal of Dynamics and Control of Systems) based on these themes.
| 11.00-11.45 David Chillingworth | Southampton | |
| ``Horseshoes in a simple impact oscillator'' | ||
| 11.45-12.30 Arne Nordmark | KTH Sweden | |
| ``Continuity properties of discontinuity mappings'' | ||
| 2.00-2.45 Bill Stronge | Cambridge | |
| ``Generalized impulse and momentum applied to multi-body impact with friction'' | ||
| 2.45-3.15 Piotr Kowalczyk | Bristol | |
| ``Bifurcations of Dynamical Systems with Sliding: Derivation of normal-form mappings'' | ||
| 3.15-3.45 Peter Ashwin | Exeter | |
| ``Invariant curves for piecewise isometries'' | ||
| 4.15-4.45 Mark Holland | UMIST | |
| ``Slowly mixing dynamical systems and maps with indifferent fixed points'' | ||
| 4.45-5.15 Ian Roberts | Aerospace Engineering, Bristol | |
| ``The Application of the Continuation Method to Piecwise-Linear Aeroelastic Systems'' | ||
| 5.15-5.45 David Wagg | Mechanical Engineering, Bristol | |
| ``Multi-dimensional impacting systems | ||
| David Chillingworth | Southampton | D.R.J.Chillingworth@maths.soton.ac.uk |
| Arne Nordmark | KTH Sweden | arne.nordmark@mech.kth.se |
| Bill Stronge | Cambridge | wjs@eng.cam.ac.uk |
| Piotr Kowalczyk | Bristol | p.kowalczyk@bristol.ac.uk |
| Pete Ashwin | Exeter | P.Ashwin@exeter.ac.uk |
| Mark Holland | UMIST | holland@maths.warwick.ac.uk |
| Ian Roberts | Bristol | Ian.Roberts@bristol.ac.uk |
| David Wagg | Bristol | David.Wagg@bristol.ac.uk |
| Alan Champneys | a.r.champneys@bristol.ac.uk |
| Martin Homer | martin.homer@bristol.ac.uk |
| Mario di Bernardo | m.DiBernardo@bristol.ac.uk |
Support from the LMS `Southern Bifurcation Theory' Network Grant' & from University of Bristol.