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  Welcome to the Applied Geometry Lab webpage!


 
 
The Applied Geometry Lab at Caltech is located in Pasadena, California. We approach computations from a geometric standpoint in order to provide numerical tools that intrinsically respect key defining properties like symmetries and invariants. In particular, we focus on discrete differential modeling, i.e., the development of differential, yet readily-discretizable foundations of computations, with a wide spectrum of applications from discrete geometry processing to solid and fluid mechanics.

We work in close collaboration with Peter Schröder's Caltech Multires Modeling Group, Professor Eva Kanso's group from USC, and Dr Yiying Tong's GiG group from MSU.

Our research is sponsored in large part by the National Science Foundation (CAREER, CARGO, CMMI, CPA G&V, ITR, and ERC grants), the Department of Energy, the Okawa Foundation, and by gifts from Pixar Animation Studios, Intel, and Microsoft.

Recent updates:

Melissa Yeung won a DOE Computational Science grad fellowship this year! That's the second one for the team in 2 years...
Jim Arvo's memorial on Nov 11 was wonderful; his passing was not.
Patrick is now Dr. Mullen as of September 8th, and is NYC-bound.
Jerrold E. Marsden, a main source of inspiration for our lab, has passed away. Our deepest sympathies to his family. Thanks for all these years, Jerry.
Keenan Crane got the SGP Best Paper award and a Google PhD Fellowship the same month. Not too shabby.
Mark Montague (a.k.a. Monty) passed away on Monday July 19 2010; the GG lab is in mourning. So long, Monty.
Take heed, Lily has turned into Dr. Kharevych as of September 11th!
Fernando de Goes (former undergrad from UNICAMP/IMPA) will join the fun at Caltech this fall. Yeay!
Three new doctors to celebrate: Dr Stern, Dr Donaldson, and Dr Pavlov graduated this year. Congrats!
The Discrete Differential Geometry course notes from SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 online on the DDG website. Thanks to all the participants; it was great fun once again this year.


Last change: November 11th, 2011
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