Richard Montgomery
Scientific, Seminar
IAM-PIMS-MITACS Distinguished Colloquium: Richard Montgomery
Abstract: A brake orbit for the Newtonian three-body problem is a solution for which all three velocities are zero at some instant: the brake instant. If we follow such an orbit there will be a later instant at which the three bodies become colinear...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS Marsden Memorial Lecture: An Octahedral Gem Hidden in Newton's Three Body Problem
Richard Montgomery received undergraduate degrees in both mathematics and physics from Sonoma State in Northern California. He completed his PhD under Jerry Marsden at Berkeley in 1986, after which he held a Moore Instructorship at MIT for two years...