C.I.M., Centro Internacional de Matemática (Coimbra, Portugal)
C.I.M.E., Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (Firenze, Italia)
The School will consist in 5 courses of 4 lectures each on the theory and techniques to determine the best possible shape to build structures and devices. The courses are aimed at graduate students and young post-docs, interested in developping research in this area, coming either from mathematics (specially calculus of variations, differential equations, functional analysis, or numerical analysis) or from engineering (specially mechanical, aerospatial or shipbuilding). The intention is, on one hand, to show to young mathematicians how to deal with a class of problems coming from engineering, and how to solve them using theoretical and numerical methods while, on the other, to present to young engineers the best theoretical methods that mathematicians have recently developped, and to show how in fact these methods can be used to solve difficult engineering problems.
B. Kawohl (Univ. Köln, Germany) – Some nonconvex shape optimization problems
O. Pironneau (Univ. Paris VI, France) – Mesh adaptation for optimal shape design
L. Tartar (Carnegie Mellon Univ., U.S.A.) – Homogenization methods in optimal design
P. Villaggio (Univ. Pisa, Italy) – Explicit solutions in elastic optimization
J.P. Zolesio (INRIA-Nice, France) – Optimal shape design: theory, models, numerical algorithms
Support for attending the School can be provided to qualified young European researchers/students.
The School has the financial support of the European Union through the T.M.R. Programme,
and is partially supported by C.I.M. and C.I.M.E.
Directors of the School:
A. Cellina (C.I.M.E. & Univ. Milano, Italia) and A. Ornelas (C.I.M. & Univ. Évora, Portugal).
Further information:
WWW: http://www.cim.pt or http://udinisun.math.unifi.it/CIME/
E-Mail: shape98@hermite.cii.fc.ul.pt