Consensus and Synchronization Rochel Gelman Part I focuses on new

Part I focuses on new theoretical and conceptual directions

one that asserted average citizens' rights to exercise their sovereignty directly not only through elections but also through town meeting

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Consensus and Synchronization Rochel Gelman Part I focuses on newCoordination, consensus, and synchronization are found in diverse natural phenomena and engineering applications. Examples are flocking birds, illuminating fireflies, a school of fish, and distributed control and sensing. The simplest of such problems are set in the Euclidean spaces and the circle. Consensus and Synchronization: From the Euclidean Space and the Circle to Lie Groups moves beyond this domain to the more sophisticated setting of Lie