University of Minnesota
School of Mathematics
School of Mathematics           Yamabe Memorial Symposium on Geometry and Low-Dimensional Topology
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Week of 30 January, 2012 Mathematics Seminars

Seminars for the week of 30 January, 2012

Colloquium

Feb. 2, 2012, 3:30 p.m., in VinH 16

Professor Luca Rondi
of University of Trieste, Italy
will speak on
Inverse problems and free-discontinuity problems

Abstract: We shall illustrate the link between free-discontinuity problems and inverse problems whose unknowns may be characterized by discontinuous functions. Many techniques developed for free-discontinuity problems, arising for example in imaging or in fracture mechanics, may be successfully applied to reconstruction methods for these kinds of inverse problems. We focus on length penalization, such as in the Mumford and Shah approach to segmentation, and on perimeter penalization as regularization terms, and on their phase-field counterparts for the numerical implementation. We show the validity of this approach both from the theoretical point of view, by a convergence analysis, and from the numerical point of view.

Monday, 30 January 2012

Junior Colloquium at 12:20 p.m. in VinH 16
Erin Manlove will speak on "Title: to be announced"

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Math Physics Seminar at 12:20 p.m. in VinH 570
Professor Changzheng Qu will speak on "Title: to be announced"

Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Climate Change Seminar: at 11:15 a.m. in VinH 570
Professor Richard McGehee will speak on "An estimate of the Widlasih parameter"
Student Topology Seminar at 12:20 p.m. in VinH 213
... Will not meet this week
PDE Seminar: at 3:35 p.m. in VinH 206
Professor Yong Yu of University of Iowa will speak on "Non-topological Solitons, Vortices and Bubbles"
Automorphic forms and number theory at 3:35 p.m. in VinH 207
... Will not meet this week

Thursday, 2 February 2012

Student Combinatorics Seminar: at 11:10 a.m. in VinH 570
Jia Huang will speak on "Hall-Littlewood Functions"
Math Club Seminar at 12:10 p.m. in VinH 570
Professor Jim Walsh will speak on "Differential equaitons meets number thoery: Moser's twist theorem"
Colloquium: at 3:30 p.m. in VinH 16
Professor Luca Rondi of University of Trieste, Italy will speak on "Inverse problems and free-discontinuity problems"

Friday, 3 February 2012

Lie Theory Seminar: at 12:20 p.m. in VinH 1
Xin Shen will speak on "L-functions for symplectic groups - Unramified calculation"
Probability Seminar: at 2:30 p.m. in VinH 211
Professor Dmitriy Bilyk will speak on "Small ball probabilities for the Brownian sheet, uniform distributions, and related problems"
Special Colloquium at 3:35 p.m. in VinH 20
Professor Maria Giovanna Mora of SISSA will speak on "Quasistatic evolution problems in plasticity"
Combinatorics Seminar: at 3:35 p.m. in VinH 570
Jia Huang will speak on "O-Hecke algebra actions on polynomials"
Financial Mathematics Seminar: at 5:30 p.m. in VinH 16
Nathan Hubbell of Travelers Personal Insurance Research & Development will speak on "Generalized linear models: A closer look at statistical modeling in insurance"