Variational and PDE Approaches to Texture Modeling and Separation (Cont'd.)

Speaker: 

Yunho Kim

Institution: 

Visiting Assistant Professor UCI

Time: 

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 9:00am

Location: 

RH 340P

This talk will be about a general framework of image processing such as Image denoising, deblurring, segmentation, etc. Variational and also PDE approaches will be considered. Various function spaces will also be mentioned and we will see some advantages and disadvantages of the functions spaces. At the end,
noise - texture characterization or separation techniques will be discussed. Notice that there are no mathematical definitions of noise and texture yet. We will think about this too.

Wave propagation and imaging in noisy environments.

Speaker: 

Professor Knut Solna

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 11:00am

Location: 

RH 306

We consider modeling of wave propagation phenomena
in some noisy and cluttered environments. We then show how
the noisy environment may have an effect when trying
to use wave reflections for imaging purposes. In particular
we discuss the so called parabolic approximation regime
corresponding to long range propagation.

Chemical reaction networks and stochastic dynamics

Speaker: 

German Enciso

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Friday, November 13, 2009 - 4:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 120

I will discuss a basic result on the theory of chemical
reaction networks developed by Feinberg and others, which provides some
insight on the possible behaviors e.g. of protein networks inside a
cell. Then I will discuss an application of this theory to the study
of stochastic chemical reactions

Speaker: 

German Enciso

Institution: 

UCI4

Time: 

Friday, November 13, 2009 - 4:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 120

An Introduction to the Analytic Theory of Numbers

Speaker: 

Mustafa Said

Institution: 

UC Irvine

Time: 

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 5:00pm

Location: 

RH 440R

I will start by giving a brief history of the subject and continue by presenting some important results in the field such as the "prime number theorem," and the mathematicians that contributed to these results. I will go on and give a very general discussion about the "Riemann Zeta Function," and discuss its importance in the field and mathematics in general. I will also touch upon some open problems such as the "Riemann Hypothesis," and "The Circle Problem." I will end my talk by discussing some recent and important results in the field such as the "Tao - Green" theorem on arithmetic progressions of prime numbers.

Some mathematical problems in a neoclassical theory of electric charges

Speaker: 

Anatoly Babine

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

It is well-known that classical electrodynamics encounters serious
problems at microscopic scales. In the talk I describe a neoclassical
theory of electric charges which is applicable both at macroscopic and
microscopic scales. From a field Lagrangian we derive field equations,
in particular Maxwell equations for EM fields and field equations for
charge distributions. In the nonrelativistic case the charges field
equations are nonlinear Schrodinger equations coupled with EM field
equations. In a macroscopic limit we derive that centers of charge
distributions converge to trajectories of point charges described by
Newton's law of motion with Coulomb interaction and Lorentz forces. In a
microscopic regime a close interaction of two bound charges as in
hydrogen atom is modeled by a nonlinear eigenvalue problem. The critical
energy values of the problem converge to the well-known energy levels of
the linear Schrdinger operator when the free charge size is much larger
than the Bohr radius. The talk is based on a joint work with A. Figotin.

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