Paola F. Antonietti

Presentation title:

Modeling Human Brain Function and Pathways of Neurodegeneration

Affiliation:

MOX - Laboratory for Modeling and Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Short bio:

Professor Paola F. Antonietti is Head of the Laboratory of Modeling and Scientific Computing MOX and Full Professor of Numerical Analysis at Politecnico di Milano. Her research centers on advanced (polytopal) numerical methods and computational learning techniques for the approximate solution of partial differential equations, with applications across various fields including computational neuroscience, engineering seismology, and subsurface flow simulations. Paola Antonietti has authored two books and over one hundred publications in international journals. She actively participates in many national and international research initiatives, as well as scientific advisory and editorial boards. In recognition of her significant contributions to applied mathematics and computational science, she received the 2016 SIMAI prize from the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics and the 2020 Jacques-Louis Lions Award from ECCOMAS—the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences. She is the recipient of a 2023 ERC Synergy Grant, funded by the European Union.

Jan Bouwe van den Berg

Presentation title:

A spectral approach to computer-assisted proofs in dynamics

Affiliation:

Department of Mathematics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Short bio:

Jan Bouwe van den Berg is a professor of mathematics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on the dynamics of patterns described by differential equations. In particular, he applies topological, variational, and computational techniques to study the behaviour of nonlinear dynamical systems. In recent years, his work has centred on computer-assisted proof methods to rigorously validate numerical simulations of solutions to ordinary, partial, and delay differential equations that model patterns in materials and fluid flows.

Irene Fonseca

Presentation title:

Oscillations and Concentrations in the Calculus of Variations

Affiliation:

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, USA

Short bio:

Irene Fonseca is the Kavčić-Moura University Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is the Director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis (CNA).

Irene Fonseca’s main contributions have been on the variational study of ferroelectric and magnetic materials, composites, thin structures, phase transitions, and on the mathematical analysis of image segmentation, denoising, detexturing, registration and recolorization in computer vision. Her research program continues to explore modern methods in the calculus of variations motivated by problems issuing from materials science and imaging science.

She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, and she was elected to the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (Portugal). She was SIAM President in 2013 and 2014. She is a Grand Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword (Grande Oficial da Ordem Militar de Sant’Iago da Espada, Portuguese Decoration). She is Vice-President of the American Mathematical Society from 2023 till 2026. She serves in 21 Editorial Boards, including Advances in Calculus of Variations, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Communications of the AMS (CAMS), ESAIM:COCV (SMAI), Journal of Nonlinear Science,
 Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences (M3AS), and SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis. She is a member of several advisory and scientific boards of research centers and institutes, she participates in international prize committees, and is in review and evaluation panels of multiple universities in the US and abroad.

Fonseca has supervised 18 Ph.D. students and mentored 45 postdoctoral fellows.

Siddhartha Mishra

Affiliation:
Seminar for Applied Mathematics (SAM), D-MATH and ETH AI Center, ETH Zurich, Raemistrasse 101, Zurich, Switzerland.

Presentation Title:
AI for PDEs.

Short Bio:
Siddhartha Mishra is a chair Professor of Applied Mathematics at ETH Zurich, where he heads the Computational and Applied Mathematics Laboratory (CAMLab). He is also the Director of Computational Science Zurich and a core faculty member of the ETH AI Center. His research interests lie in the fields of numerical analysis, scientific computing and machine learning with applications to different fields of science and engineering including fluid dynamics, astrophyiscs, climate science, geophysics and biology. He is an elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the Collatz Prize of ICIAM, the Dahlquist Prize of SIAM and von Mises Prize of GAMM, among others. He is also an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Rio in 2018.

Rafael Ortega

Presentation title:

A periodic prey-predator system

Affiliation:

Departamento de Matemática Aplicada Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Spain

Short bio:

Ph D 1984

Professor at Universidad de Granada

Research work in Differential Equations and Mechanics

Some topics: periodic solutions, stability, twist maps, perturbations of Kepler problem,

population models with seasonal effects