Publications

Preprints

A variational approach to geometric mechanics for undulating robotic locomotion
Sean Even, Patrick S. Martinez, Cora Keogh, Oliver Gross, Yasemin Özkan-Aydın and Peter Schröder
Preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10827
[Project Page] [PDF] [Video]

Books

Differential Geometry: From Elastic Curves to Willmore Surfaces
Ulrich Pinkall and Oliver Gross
Birkhäuser Compact Textbooks in Mathematics (2024). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-39838-4
[Project Page] [Book]

Journal articles

Inverse Geometric Locomotion
Quentin Becker*, Oliver Gross* and Mark Pauly
ACM Trans. Graph. 44, 4 (July 2025), 12 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3731187
[Project Page] [PDF] [Video]     *joint first authors
Going with the Flow
Yousuf Soliman, Marcel Padilla, Oliver Gross, Felix Knöppel, Ulrich Pinkall and Peter Schröder
ACM Trans. Graph. 43, 4, Article 57 (July 2024), 12 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3658164
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Elastic Curves with Variable Bending Stiffness
Oliver Gross, Ulrich Pinkall and Moritz Wahl
Studies in Appl. Math. 155, no. 2 (2025): 155, e70097, DOI: 10.1111/sapm.70097
[Project Page] [PDF]
Force-Free Fields are Conformally Geodesic
Albert Chern and Oliver Gross
SIAM J. Appl. Algebra Geom. Vol. 8, No. 4 (2024) pp. 1001--1022, DOI: 10.1137/23M1583211
[Project Page] [PDF]
Plasma Knots
Oliver Gross, Ulrich Pinkall and Peter Schröder
Physics Letters A 480 (2023) 128986, DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2023.128986
[Project Page] [PDF]
Motion from Shape Change
Oliver Gross, Yousuf Soliman, Marcel Padilla, Felix Knöppel, Ulrich Pinkall and Peter Schröder
ACM Trans. Graph. 42, 4, Article 107 (August 2023), 11 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3528223.3530102
[Project Page] [PDF] [Poster] [Video] [Code]
Filament Based Plasma
Marcel Padilla*, Oliver Gross*, Felix Knöppel, Albert Chern, Ulrich Pinkall and Peter Schröder
ACM Trans. Graph. 41, 4, Article 153 (July 2022), 14 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3528223.3530102
[Project Page] [PDF] [Video] [Poster] [Code]     *joint first authors

Thesis

Conformal Geometry in Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics
Oliver Gross
PhD Thesis, TU Berlin, DOI: 10.14279/depositonce-20666
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Miscellaneous

DGD-Calendar
Oliver Gross and Carl O. R. Lutz
[Project Page] [2021] [2022] [2023] [2024]