Time and Place: 10:15-11:45 K012D

Content: Mechanics has a purely geometrical part, which investigates possible positional relations between rigid bodies in 3-space or planar figures in 2-space. If the set of these positional relations is infinite, then some bodies may move. In this course, we will cover classical results such as Maxwell's criteria for rigidity of structures and Bricard's classification of flexible octahedra as well as modern computational techniques.