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Some recent new insights on photometric stereo

Photometric stereo is a computer vision technique which uses several images of a scene taken under different lights, in order to reconstruct the surface. Its resolution is better posed than shape-from...

Social networks that balance themselves

Abstract: Consider a fully-connected social network of people, companies, or countries, modeled as an undirected complete graph with real numbers on its edges. Positive edges link friends; negative ed...

Texture segmentation by a discrete level set approach. Method and applications

Texture analysis is important in image processing in many application, medical image analysis, material science, satellite imagery and so on. No formal definition of texture exists; basically this pro...

Continuous Models in Evolutionary Game Theory

In this talk we present continuous models for evolutionary game theory: an integro-differential model which describes the evolution of a population adopting mixed strategies and a one space dimensiona...

High-resolution schemes for the approximation of atmospheric phenomena II

We reviewed some applications of the ADER scheme for linear, dimensionally reduced, hyperbolic systems of conservations laws. In the same spirit, in this talk we will present a study concerning the ap...

Modeling volcano deformation made easy:constraining the source of the 2004-2011 volcano unrest at Mount St Helens (WA).

Abstract: Precise measurements of ground deformation have become increasingly common as large networks of GPS receivers and borehole strainmeters have been established over the last decade. Complement...

High-resolution schemes for the approximation of atmospheric phenomena I

In this talk we present a set of high-resolution, finite volume schemes for the approximation of Euler equations in the context of atmospheric models. We introduce two classes of methods: methods base...

Control of Dynamic Systems with Multiple Objectives

The challenges of controlling multiple agent dynamic systems with multiple objectives are related to and furthermore include problems in multi-player dynamic games, multiobjective optimization, and de...

Analysis and approximation of Hamilton-Jacobi equations with irregular data

We will present some numerical schemes for some non classical Hamilton-Jacobi equations. We will consider an Eikonal equation with discontinuous coefficients. In this case, through a particular condit...

(In)homogeneity & (an)isotropy-- composite materials, optimal paths, and computational challenges of homogenization

I will briefly discuss the separate computational challenges posed by anisotropy & inhomogeneity in front propagation and optimal control problems. The idea of "homogenization" will be introduced ...

Plate kinematic models and lithosphere/mantle interactions at mid-ocean ridges

Plate kinematics represents the first evidence of plate tectonic processes and the basics of plate dynamic models. The kinematics of plates is defined by Euler pole and angular velocity, and the main ...

Hamilton-Jacobi approach for some state-constrained control problems

We will consider a class of state-constrained control problems lacking controllability assumptions and we will review some results on the characterization of the value function as solution of an appro...