Journées de Metz 2010
 

May 5-6-7

Geometric Evolutions and Gradient Flow:
Theory, Computations and Applications
from Mechanics to Image Analysis


Program

  
 

----------  Wednesday  ----------


Except the welcome coffee, the conferences of Wednesday will take place in "amphithéatre Hermite".  A road sign will be planned for those who will arrive after the welcome.



 10h00-11h15 :  Welcome coffee and registration.
 (LMAM,  ISGMP, Bâtiment A, salle 207)
  

 11h30-12h15 : Yann Brenier (Nice) Principle of least action and gradient flows: the example of the recovery of the early universe in astrophysics (talk)


Lunch


14h15-15h00 : Bernhard Burgeth (Saarbrücken)  Anisotropic PDE-Based Evolution Processes for Matrix Fields (abstract)

15h00-15h30 :  Eva Fasangova (Ulm-Prague)  The gradient flow near a local minimum of the Willmore functional: global existence, convergence and blowup limit points (talk)

  Break  

16h00-16h45 :  Jan Sokolowski (IECN, Nancy)  Singular Limits in Compressible Flows and Applications to Shape Optimization (talk)

16h45-17h15 :  Giuseppe Cardone (Sannio)  Mass transport in tubular structures: asymptotic analysis and numerical modeling (abstract)

 

----------  Thursday  ----------

Both conferences of the morning will take place in "amphithéatre Hermite". 

 

09h30-10h15:  Joachim Weickert (MIA, Saarbrücken)  Well-Posedness Properties of Discretised Diffusion Processes with Negative Diffusivities (talk)

10h15-10h45: Parima Kazemi (Ulm) Using the Sobolev gradient method in energy minimization schemes - Numerical and theoretical results for the minimization of the Ginzburg-Landau and Gross-Pitaevskii energy functionals (talk)


 Break


11h15-12h00: Guillaume Carlier  (Ceremade-Dauphine)  Exponential convergence for a convexifying evolution equation (talk)

Lunch

14h15-15h00: Dorin Bucur (Chambéry)  An SBV approach to Robin boundary conditions (talk)

15h00-15h45:  Morgan Pierre (Poitiers) Convergence to equilibrium for some discretized gradient or gradient-like systems (abstract)

  Break

16h15-17h:  Gabriel Peyré Total Variation Projection: Algorithms and Applications (talk)




>---------- Banquet ----------<



----------  Friday  ----------



09h30-10h15:  Alain Haraux (JLL-Paris) Slow anf fast decaying solutions to some nonlinear ODE (talk)

10h15-10h45: Nicola Gigli (Bonn)  On the heat flow on metric spaces (talk)


 Break
 

11h15-12h00: Giuseppe Buttazzo (Pisa)   Compact embedding of Sobolev spaces and well posedness of some optimization problems (abstract)
 

Lunch

14h00: Discussion.
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