Variational Methods in Materials Science and Image Processing
Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Irene Fonseca Datum: 30.09.10 Zeit: 14.30 - 15.20 Raum: Y15G19
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.