GMC Network

This link offers information about:

• Ph.D. programs in which different members of the network participate.
• Ph.D. dissertations by members of the network.
• Ph.D. students in the network.
• Grants and Ph.D. opportunities.

Ph.D. programs

• In progress.

Ph.D. dissertations

• Thalía Rodríguez de la Peña (2009)
  Reducción de principios variacionales con simetría y problemas de control óptimo de Lie-Scheffers-Brockett
• Silvia Vilariño Fernández (2009)
  Nuevas aportaciones al estudio de los formalismos k-simpléctico y k-cosimpléctico
• María Barbero Liñán (2008)
  A geometric study of abnormality in optimal control problems for control and mechanical control systems
• Joan Andreu Lázaro Camí (2008)
  Stochastic Geometric Mechanics
• Diana Sosa Martín (2008)
  Afgebroides de Lie y Mecánica Geométrica
• Rubén Martín Grillo (2007)
  Some geometric aspects of implicit dynamical systems
• Marina Delgado Téllez de Cepeda (2004)
  Métodos geométricos en problemas de control óptimo singulares: fundamentos y aplicaciones
• Aitor Santamaría Merino (2004)
  Métodos geométricos en teorías clásicas de campos e integración numérica
• David Iglesias Ponte (2003)
  Lie Groups and Groupoids and Jacobi structures
• Belén López Brito (2002)
  Teorías de Homología y Cohomología para variedades de Jacobi, Nambu-Poisson y Nambu-Jacobi
• Francisco Javier Yaniz Fernández (2002)
  Aspectos geométricos del control disipativo de sistemas mecánicos y no holónomos

Ph.D. students

• Javier de Lucas Araujo, Universidad de Zaragoza
• Cédric M. Campos, Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas
• Thalía Rodríguez de la Peña, University Carlos III of Madrid
• M. T. Sanz Gil, University of Valladolid
• D. Sanjuán Ramírez, University of Valladolid
• Michael Schuresko, University of California

Grants and Ph.D. opportunities

• Research positions

  Predoctoral and postdoctoral positions in different programs: Ramón y Cajal, Juan de la Cierva, FPI, JAE. For detailed information, download the following file.

• Attendance to conferences and specialization courses

  This grants are for young researchers (grantees, Ph.D. and postdoc students) from the "Geometry, Mechanics and Control network" to attend conferences and specialization courses. The quantity for each grant will be establish in terms of the cost and the number of requests. We encourage young people from the network who want to assist to some of the meetings we organize to send to the contact people of each meeting or to the network coordinator, the request for a grant including an approximated cost (include flight ticket price and lodging expenses separately) before deadline.

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• Transversal meetings between groups

  Meetings between two or more research groups of the network will be cofinanced in order to bring up to date their investigations and to debate new collaborations. The meetings will last from 2 to 5 days with informal seminars. They can be applied at any time to the Coordinator of the network and they will be decided having in mind the scientific opportunity and the budgetary availability. At the end of each meeting, the responsible researchers will send to the network a brief summary of the debated topics.

• Students mobility

  It will be fomented short stays of students from one group to others, in order to learn new techniques and knowledge. These visits can be applied at any time to the network coordinator by two responsible researchers of the student and they will be decided having in mind the scientific opportunity and the budgetary availability.

• Marie Curie Initial Training Networks

  • For european people;
  • for european people that want to go abroad EU;
  • for non-european people that want to come to EU.

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  Interested applicants should have: solid background in mathematics or engineering and control theory; good English knowledge, be hard working, ready to learn about new and different topics; and interested in working in research areas such as control and dynamical systems, distributed optimization, and coordination algorithms for groups of mobile agents and sensor networks.

  Research areas: to have a better idea of the research developed by the group, one may consult this paper and, more generally, this site. There are opportunities to apply the research in cooperative control developed under this project to oceanographic research, in collaboration with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, and to natural disaster management in collaboration with NASA Ames Research Center.

  Details about the position: the annual salary associated to the position, fixed by the university, is around $20,000. Graduate fees are also covered. Interested students should satisfy the requirements to be admitted in the PhD program.

  The University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) is nestled within 2,000 acres of redwood forest and meadows, overlooking the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary of California's beautiful Central Coast, about 70 miles from San Francisco and 30 miles from Silicon Valley. Information about UC Santa Cruz is available at its website.

  Interested students should get in contact:
  Jorge Cortes
  Applied Mathematics and Statistics
  Baskin School of Engineering
  University of California, Santa Cruz
  1156 High Street, Mail Stop: SOE2
  Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
  Ph: (+1) 831-459-3753
  Fax: (+1) 831-459-4829
  Email: jcortes@ucsc.edu
  Homepage: http://www.ams.ucsc.edu/~jcortes