08/09/2016, 12:00 — 12:40 — Amphitheatre Pa2, Mathematics Building
Jair Koilller, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro

Simple variational splines on manifolds

Riemannian splines have been studied since the 1990's and in fact one of the leading groups is Fatima Leite's at Coimbra. A simple spline is a curve controlled by a force, whose normal component deviates it from the geodesic path, whereas the tangential component controls the speed. We revisit the theme with ideas from Geometric Mechanics.