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Geometry II:
Discrete Differential Geometry

(Summer 2012)

Lectures Alexander Bobenko Tue 12-14 MA 850
Thu 12-14 MA 850
Tutorial Ulrike Bücking Wed 10-12 MA 848

This is a course of the Berlin Mathematical School held in English.

News

[3.07.]
For the last lecture on Thursday, July 5th you are invited to come and discuss and ask questions in the coffee room MA 875.
[29.06.]
For all those who have met the requirements, the certificates (Scheine) can be collected at Pia Janik's office (MA 873; Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 9:30-11:30).
[21.06.]
There will be no office hour of Prof. Bobenko on Tuesday, June 26th. Further, there will be no tutorial on Wednesday, June 27th (but there will be the last homework exercise sheet).
[1.06.]
There will be no office hour of Prof. Bobenko on Tuesday, June 12th, and no lecture on Tuesday, June 12th. Further, there will be no office hour of Ulrike on Monday, June 18th. Instead you can ask questions on Thursday, June 14th, or on Tuesday, June 19th.
[7.05.]
There will be no office hour of Ulrike on Monday, May 14th. Instead you can ask questions on Friday, May 11nd, or on Tuesday, May 15th, or make an appointment.
[23.04.]
There will be no office hour of Ulrike on Monday, April 30th. Instead you can ask questions on Wednesday, May 2nd, after the tutorial or make an appointment.
[12.04.]
There will only be one weekly tutorial on Wednesday, starting on 18.04.
[20.03.]
The first lecture will be on Thursday 12.04., the first tutorial on Wednesday 18.04.

Contents

Polyhedral surfaces, intelligent (property preserving) discretizations, quad-surfaces, multi-dimensional nets, orthogonal nets, discrete conformal structure and parametrization, integrable systems, discrete Riemann surfaces.

References

  • A. Bobenko, Yu. Suris, Discrete Differential Geometry. Integrable Structure, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 98, AMS, 2008

Exercise sheets

The exercise sheets can be found here.

Homework policy

To get a certificate for the tutorial, you need to satisfactorily complete 50% of the homework assignments. Homeworks may be prepared individually or in groups of two students and are due at the beginning of the weekly tutorial meeting.

Office Hours

Office hours Alexander Bobenko Tue 14-15 MA 881
Ulrike Bücking Mon 11-12 MA 864

Ulrike Bücking . 03.07.2012.