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SUMMARY:Maxwell and The Geometry of Equilibrium - Allan McRobie\, Professo
 r of Structural Engineering\, CUED
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DESCRIPTION:This talk coincides with the publication by Cambridge Universi
 ty Press of “The Geometry of Equilibrium: James Clerk Maxwell and 21st-C
 entury Structural Mechanics”\, edited by Bill Baker and Allan McRobie. B
 ill is Senior Partner at Skidmore Owings and Merrill in Chicago and has be
 en the design lead for many of the world’s iconic structures\, including
  the world’s tallest\, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Bill is Honorary Profe
 ssor here at CUED and visits each year to give a fourth-year module on Adv
 anced Structural Design. The new book collates the recent work of Bill\, A
 llan and many others which revisits the works of James Clerk Maxwell. Alon
 gside his famous unification of electricity and magnetism\, Maxwell also p
 rovided a highly geometric approach to structural mechanics. In this talk\
 , Allan will: describe the contents of the book\, focusing on the mathemat
 ics of 3D and 4D projective geometry\, with the polarities and Legendre tr
 ansforms that underpin the geometry of equilibrium\; explain the applicati
 ons in design\; describe the more recent progress.
LOCATION:JDB Seminar Room\, CUED
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