SMS scnews item created by Daniel Daners at Wed 25 Feb 2009 1017
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 13 Mar 2009
Calendar1: 13 Mar 2009 1400-1500
CalLoc1: Carslaw 275
Auth: daners@p7153.pc.maths.usyd.edu.au

Joint Colloquium

Variational Methods in Materials and Imaging

Fonseca

Irene Fonseca (Carnegie Mellon University)

is giving a joint colloquium on Friday 13 March in Carslaw Room 275

Title: Variational Methods in Materials and Imaging

Abstract: Several questions in applied analysis motivated by issues in computer vision, physics, materials sciences and other areas of engineering may be treated variationally leading to higher order problems and to models involving lower dimension density measures. Their study often requires state-of-the-art techniques, new ideas, and the introduction of innovative tools in partial differential equations, geometric measure theory, and the calculus of variations.

In this talk it will be shown how some of these questions may be reduced to well understood first order problems, while in others the higher order plays a fundamental role. Applications to phase transitions, to the equilibrium of foams under the action of surfactants, imaging, micromagnetics, thin films, and quantum dots will be addressed.

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