| Start Date: | 9/29/2014 | Start Time: | 1:00 PM |
| End Date: | 9/29/2014 | End Time: | 2:00 PM |
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Event Description
Irene Fonseca, PhD, professor mathematics, Carnegie-Mellon University
Abstract: Engineers and computer scientists have long used aspects of mathematics to help solve problems relating to computer imaging and computer graphics. In this talk, I will discuss various aspects of this, as well as some new techniques which use a different kind of mathematics for this purpose.
Profile: An internationally respected educator and researcher in applied mathematics, Fonseca is the director of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Nonlinear Analysis (CNA). The CNA is one of the few centers in the United States that receives significant federal funding for research in applied mathematics.
Fonseca's research program is at the interface between pure and applied analysis, and is motivated by applications in the physical sciences and engineering. Her recent work is focused on variational techniques as they apply to contemporary problems in materials sciences and computer vision, and it includes the mathematical study of shape memory alloys, ferroelectric and magnetic materials, composites, liquid crystals, thin structures, phase transitions, epitaxy, and image segmentation, staircasing and recolorization in computer vision. |
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Location:
Bossone Research Center, 3rd Floor Atrium, 3120 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
Special Features:
Free Food |
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