Lecture Progress

  • Week 1: lectures only ( October 16 – 17 )
    • Planar curves. Parametrizations, geometric quantities, length variation, turning angles. Discrete planar curves. Discrete arc length, curvature.
    • Discrete space curves. Frames. Frenet-Serrat formula. Smooth surfaces. Metric. Curvature.
    • Lecture notes
  • Week 3: tutorials only ( October 30 – 31 )
    • Houdini Workflow, lights, camera, rendering.
    • Working on common examples.
  • Week 7: lecture and tutorial ( November 27 – 28 )
  • Week 8: lectures only ( December 4 – 5 )
    • Whitney Elements.
    • Differential Equations on Manifolds. Physical Units.
    • The Heat Equation – Derivation and properties of the solution.
    • Finite Elements: Weak and Strong formulations of the heat equation.
  • Week 9: lectures only ( December 11 – 12 )
    • Discrete Finite Elements. Time Discretization/Stability. Poisson equation.
    • Conformal maps.
  • Holidays: Please be happy!
  • Week 12: No lectures ( January 15 – 16 )
  • Week 13: No lectures ( January 22 – 23 )
  • Week 15: Tutorials only ( February 5 – 6 )
    • Boundary conditions: Dirichlet and Neumann
  • Week 16: Tutorial and Project presentation ( February 12 – 13 )