Notiziario Scientifico

Settimana dal 30 giugno al 6 luglio 2014


Giovedì 3 luglio 2014
Ore 11:00, Aula Dal Passo, Università di Roma II
Mark Matney (NASA Johnson Space Center)
The Challenge of Orbital Debris
Since the beginning of space flight in 1957, humans have left a troubling legacy of garbage in space. Discarded rocket bodies, derelict satellites, and explosion debris now litter Earth orbit. These debris pose a risk to human space flight, robotic space flight, and even safety of humans on the ground. What do we know about this environment? What are we doing about it? This talk will answer these questions and discuss the path for the future.


Giovedì 3 luglio 2014
Ore 14:30, Aula INdAM
Seminario di Analisi Armonica ed Equazioni a Derivate Parziali
Svitlana Mayboroda (University of Minnesota)
Localization of eigenfunctions and associated free boundary problems
The phenomenon of wave localization permeates acoustics, quantum physics, elasticity, energy engineering. It was used in construction of the noise abatement walls, LEDs, optical devices. Anderson localization of quantum states of electrons has become one of the prominent subjects in quantum physics, as well as harmonic analysis and probability. Yet, no methods predict specific spatial location of the localized waves. In this talk I will present recent results revealing a universal mechanism of spatial localization of the eigenfunctions of an elliptic operator and emerging operator theory/analysis/geometric measure theory approaches and techniques. We prove that for any operator on any bounded domain there exists a "landscape" which splits the domain into disjoint subregions and indicates location, shapes, and frequencies of the localized eigenmodes. In particular, the landscape connects localization to a certain multi-phase free boundary problem, regularity of minimizers, and geometry of free boundaries.


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