Faculty

• Fátima Silva Leite

  fleite@mat.uc.pt

• Research Area

  Geometric control theory

• Institution

  University of Coimbra

• PhD

  Institution: Warwick University - England
  Year: 1983

• Main research publications

  • An intrinsic formulation of the rolling manifolds problem (with M. Godoy, E. Grong, I. Markina) , Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems 18 (2012)
  • High order smoothing splines versus least squares problems on Riemannian manifolds (with L. Machado and K. Krakowski) , Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems 16 (2010)
  • Exponentials of skew-symmetric matrices and logarithms of orthogonal matrices (with J. Cardoso) , Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 233 (2010)
  • On the geometry of rolling and interpolation curves on Sn, SO(n) and Graßmann manifolds (with K. Hüper) , Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems 13 (2007)
  • Rolling Stiefel manifolds (with K. Hüper and M. Kleinsteuber) , International Journal of Systems Science 39 (2007)

• PhD Students

  • Fátima Pina ongoing
  • André Marques ongoing
  • Rui Carreira Rodrigues Smooth interpolation in Euclidean spaces and other Riemannian manifolds 2007
  • Luís Faustino Machado Least Square Problems on Riemannian Manifolds 2006
  • João Cardoso Matrix Logarithms – Theoretical and Numerical Considerations 2003
  • Margarida Camarinha Geometry of Cubic Polynomials in Riemannian Manifolds co-supervision with P. Crouch, 1996

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