Author Description

This book illustrates the wide range of Jerry Marsden's mathematical legacy in areas of geometry, mechanics, and dynamics, from very pure mathematics to highly applied mathematics, but always with a geometric perspective. Each contribution develops its material from the point of view of geometric mechanics starting from its foundations, introducing readers to modern topics through illustrations on a wide range of topics. The twenty peer-reviewed articles contained in this volume are based on conferences and research conducted during the month of July 2012 at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, in a program honoring Marsden's legacy. The unified treatment of the wide range of topics covered in this book will be of interest to both experts and beginners in geometric mechanics. Experts will recognize applications of their own familiar concepts and methods in a wide variety of fields, some of which they may never have approached from a geometric point of view. Beginners can choose topics that interest them from different fields and learn about geometric approaches and perspectives towards those topics that will also be new to them.