Invited Speakers

Grégoire Allaire (Palaiseau, France)
Title: "Topology optimization of structures"
field: shape and topology optimization, computational mechanics
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Frank Allgöwer (Stuttgart, Germany)
Title: "Dissipation inequalities in systems theory: past, present and future"
field: systems and control theory
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Luis A. Caffarelli (Austin, USA)
Title: "Nonlinear problems involving integral operators"
field: free boundary problems and nonlinear elliptic and parabolic equations, nonlinear phenomena in periodic or random media, and homogenization questions for fully nonlinear equations
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Emmanuel J. Candès (Pasadena, USA)
Title: "Compressive sampling"
field: signal processing, sensing, computational harmonic analysis,
random matrices, convex optimization
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Claudio Canuto (Torino, Italy)
Title: "High-order methods for PDEs: recent advances and new perspectives"

Margaret Cheney (Troy, USA)
Title: "Radar imaging"
field: radar imaging
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Albert Cohen (Paris, France)
Title: "Greedy algorithms: theory, applications and open problems"
field: approximation theory, harmonic analysis, multiscale methods and wavelets, adaptive numerical simulation, image processing, learning theory
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Weinan E (Princeton, USA)
Title: "Some fundamental issues in multiscale modeling"
field: stochastic analysis and stochastic modeling, atomistic theory and atomistic modeling, with applications to solids, fluids and chemical kinetics
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Herbert Edelsbrunner (Durham, USA)
Title: "Introduction to persistent homology"
field: algorithms, discrete and computational geometry, computational topology, structural molecular biology
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Nicole El Karoui (Palaiseau, France)
Title: Dynamic Risk Measures and Optimal Risk Transfer in Financial Markets
field: Mathematical Finance, motivated by Risk Control in Derivatives Financial Market,
Tools are stochastic control, dynamic risk measures, inverse problems

Michel Fortin (Québec, Canada)
Title: "Contact problems in solid mechanics"
field: Finite Element method for solid mechanics, mesh adaptation, mixed methods
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Roland Glowinski (Houston, USA)
Title: "Numerical methods for nonlinear elliptic problems"
field: computational fluid dynamics, non-smooth mechanics
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Hitoshi Ishii (Tokyo, Japan)
Title: "Asymptotic solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations for large time and related topics"
field: fully nonlinear PDE, viscosity solutions, optimal control, motion of surfaces
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Barbara Lee Keyfitz (Toronto, Canada and Houston, USA)
Title: "Hyperbolic Conservation Laws: Past and Future"
field: nonlinear partial differential equations, hyperbolic conservation laws
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Robert V. Kohn (New York, USA)
Title: "Parabolic PDEs and Deterministic Games"
field: nonlinear partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, and applications to materials science
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Tatsien Li (Shanghai, China)
Title: "Controllability and observability: from ODEs to quasi-linear hyperbolic systems"
field: partial differential equations and their applications
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José Mario Martinez (Campinas, Brazil)
Title: "Order-value optimization problems"
field: partial differential equations and their applications: quasilinear hyperbolic systems, nonlinear wave equations, boundary value problems with equivalued surface and resistivity well-logging, exact controllability etc.
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Arkadi Nemirovski (Haifa, Israel)
Title: "Recent Trends in Robust Convex Optimization"
field: efficient algorithms in Convex Programming, robust optimization
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Felix Otto (Bonn, Germany)
Title: "Pattern formation in micromagnetics"
field: nonlinear partial differential equations, calculus of variations, applications in micromagnetics and fluid dynamics
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William R. Pulleyblank (Yorktown Heights, USA)
Title: "Computing, Business and Applied Mathematics - the next challenges"
field: operations research, business optimization, business intelligence, data mining, combinatorial optimization
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Christof Schütte (Berlin, Germany)
Title: "Mathematics sets the molecular world in motion"

Andrew Stuart (Warwick, United Kingdom)
Title: "Sampling Function Space: Applications and Algorithms"
field: computational dynamical systems and stochastic processes
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Eva Tardos (Ithaca, USA)
Title: "Network-formation games"
field: combinatorial optimization, algorithmic game theory
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Michael J. Todd (Ithaca, USA)
Title: "Minimum Volume Ellipsoids: Applications, Duality, and Algorithms"
field: convex optimization, linear and semidefinite programming,
design and analysis of algorithms, interior-point methods
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Ichiro Tsuda (Sapporo, Japan)
Title: "Chaotic itinerancy reality in brain dynamics"
field: complex systems, chaotic dynamical systems, mathematical modeling of the brain function, biological evolution
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Gunther Uhlmann (Seattle, USA)
Title: "How to make invisible objects visible and visible objects invisible"
field: inverse problems, partial differential equations, scattering theory and microlocal analysis
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Jinchao Xu (University Park, USA)
Title: "Design, Analysis and Application of Optimal PDE Solvers"
field: finite element methods, multigrid and adaptive method, engineering applications
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Speaker of the Public Lecture

Ivar Ekeland (Vancouver, Canada)
Title: "The best of all possible worlds: the idea of optimization"
field: (mathematics) optimization, nonlinear analysis, critical point theory, calculus of variations, Hamiltonian mechanics, exterior differential calculus (economics) individual and collective demand, hedonic markets, contract theory (general) science for the general public
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