Discrete Differential Geometry: An Applied Introduction  Full
Conference  One-Day Full Conference  Friday, 12 December, 08:30
- 17:30 Room 311 Level: Advanced  This new and elegant area of
mathematics has exciting applications, as this course
demonstrates by presenting practical examples in geometry
processing (surface fairing, parameterization, and remeshing)
and simulation (of cloth, shells, rods, and fluids).  The
behavior of physical systems is typically described by a set of
continuous equations using tools such as geometric mechanics and
differential geometry to analyze and capture their properties.
For purposes of computation, one must derive discrete (in space
and time) representations of the underlying equations.
Researchers in a variety of areas have discovered that theories,
which are discrete from the start and have key geometric
properties built into their discrete description, can often more
readily yield robust numerical simulations that are true to the
underlying continuous systems: they exact