Rob Thompson

Contact Information

robt@umn.edu
(612) 624-0518
Vincent Hall 505

Courses

Not teaching currently
Fall 2010: Math 2243
Previous courses

Seminars

Mathematical physics seminar
Math club!

Upcoming Events

SDE conference for Peter Olver, May 2012

Items of Interest

Papers

Group foliation of differential equations using moving frames, w/ Francis Valiquette,
in progress
On the cohomology of the invariant Euler-Lagrange complex , w/ Francis Valiquette,
Acta App. Math. 116 (2011), 199-226.

Slides

Bäcklund Tranformations 1, Mathematical Physics Seminar, March 2012
Symmetries!, Graduate Student Open House, March 2012
The story of a wave, Math Club, February 2012
Group foliation using moving frames, FoCM Symbolic Analysis, Budapest, July 2011
Group foliation and moving frames, Moving Frames in Geometry, CRM, June 2011
Noether's Theorem Math Club, February 2011
Symmetries: a short talk Junior colloqium, December 2010
Cohomology of the invariant Euler-Lagrange complex Central AMS meeting, April 2010
Invariant variational problems for curves Mathematical physics seminar, March 2010
What are moving frames? Junior colloqium, October 2009
The variational bicomplex Mathematical physics seminar , April 2009

Videos

Intro to Partial Differential Equations (in progress)

Other stuff

Algebra prelim solutions (pdf, tex)
Simple latex template (pdf, tex)
Oral paper
Miscellaneous