Spring 2020 Special Topics Course Tuesday Period 7, Thursday Period 7-8
Geometric constraint systems underlie many structures and processes in nature and engineering from molecular and materials modeling to computer aided design, robotics, virtual reality, machine learning and teaching. The course concerns the principles of geometric constraint systems and will touch upon applications. Most of the material to be covered will come from the Instructor's recently edited volume Handbook of Geometric Constraint Systems Principles (not a required textbook for the course), her previous published lecture notes ( here here and here ) and some of her research articles and relevant others.
Grading will be based on preparing, critiquing and editing high quality lecture notes and Wikipedia articles of key topics, a substantial project (paper and presentation) that can be theory or software-implementation based, and class participation.