Geometric Structures seminar - Andrei Agrachev - Thu Mar 6, 14:00 - room 005 - accessible also to first-year master students

[Luca Rizzi]

Dear All,

This is to announce the next seminar from the series "Geometric Structures".

Date and venue: Thu Mar 6, 14:00 - room 005

Speaker: Andrei Agrachev

Title: Geometry of osculating curves

Abstract: Simplest geometric example of a nonholonomic constraint is one for the movement of the tangent line along a smooth plane curve. We obtain a better contact with the curve and more interesting constraints if we substitute tangent lines with "osculating" algebraic curves of degree n>1. My talk is devoted to the vector distributions and subriemannian structures raised from these geometric models, starting from the osculating conics and cubics.

The talk will be accessible also to first-year master students.

More information can be found here: https://researchseminars.org/seminar/Geometric_Structures_SISSA

​​Luca Rizzi
SISSA (Trieste)
https://rizzilu.perso.math.cnrs.fr/