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Enhancement of a Mathematical Computing Environment - Q1 1998 Status Report

Participants:  Professor Bob Connelly, connelly@math.cornell.edu - work on tensegrities.
Professor Anil Nerode, anil@math.cornell.edu - work on hybrid systems.
Professor Al Schatz, schatz@math.cornell.edu - finite elements
Dr. Allen Back, back@math.cornell.edu - work on tensegrities.

Five machines are curently installed.

Work during this quarter was primarily startup. Professor Connelly and Dr. Back easily transferred much of their earlier computation and visualization resource generators to the Intel environments. Professor Schatz was able to port one of his major Sun based analysis programs to the Windows NT gnu FORTRAN environment, and has experienced a huge increase in the efficiency with which he can investigate examples.  Plans for the next quarter on tensegrities include studying the unequal cable stress case and reorganizing the approximately 1000 A5Z2 symmetric examples. Theoretical work has already covered the unequal cable stress case, but questions remain about which and how many superstable examples with nontrivial isotropy groups have their isotropy broken by choice of unequal stress. For many purposes, symmetric tensegrities without any surprise overlaps are of greatest interest.

 

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