Homepage of Joris Vankerschaver

I am currently a Teaching Visitor at the Math Department of UC San Diego, where I'm working with Melvin Leok at the Computational Geometric Mechanics Group. I'm on a research leave from being a Postdoctoral Fellow from the Research Foundation--Flanders (Belgium) and I'm part of the IRSES Geomech project, funded by the EU.

My previous employment can be summarized as follows:

• Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematics, Ghent University, Belgium (2010)
• JSPS Research Fellow, Waseda University, Japan (Fall 2009)
• Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Control and Dynamical Systems, Caltech (2007-2009)

My research interests include:

• Interactions between fluids and structures, and the geometry of the diffeomorphism group
• Variational principles and Dirac structures for classical field theories.

Latest updates

• Classes (Spring 2012):
  • Math 10C: Calculus III
  • Math 20B: Calculus/Science and Engineering
• Together with Melvin Leok, I organized the minisymposium “Computational Methods for Geometric PDEs” at ICIAM 2011.
• My two latest preprints:
• L. Garcia-Naranjo, J. Vankerschaver: Nonholonomic LL systems on central extensions and the hydrodynamic Chaplygin sleigh with circulation. [www]
• J. Vankerschaver, H. Yoshimura, M. Leok: The Hamilton-Pontryagin Principle and Multi-Dirac Structures for Classical Field Theories. [www]
The rest of my publications are on my research page.

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