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feb 01 wed 2023

Seminar
Marco Beghi, La rivoluzione cosmologica del XVI-XVIII secolo: tempi e modi della sua affermazione, 02-01-2023, 15:00
- Seminar
- Marco Beghi
- Dipartimento di Energia, Politecnico di Milano
- La rivoluzione cosmologica del XVI-XVIII secolo: tempi e modi della sua affermazione
- Wednesday, 1 February 2023 at 15:00
- Sala Consiglio VII piano
- Abstract
  
  Tra il XVI e il XVIII secolo è avvenuta, in Europa, una rivoluzione cosmologica. Si tratta di molto più di un semplice cambiamento “geometrico” (il Sole al centro invece della Terra al centro); si tratta della sostituzione di tutto un insieme di conoscenze e di concezioni. Le nuove concezioni sono state sviluppate in modo non sincrono, talvolta secondo le osservazioni empiriche ma talvolta anche contro le osservazioni empiriche, e hanno preso il sopravvento quando sono arrivate a costituire un insieme sufficientemente completo e coerente.
  
  Vengono percorsi i passaggi principali, attraverso i protagonisti chiave (Copernico, Tycho Brahe, Keplero, Galileo, Newton), sia astronomi osservatori sia puramente speculativi, le loro scoperte e i loro tentativi di interpretazione, cercando di mettere in luce alcuni snodi che sono particolarmente interessanti dal punto di vista epistemologico.
- Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Matematica edificio 14, via E. Bonardi 9, 20133 Milano - Telefono: +39 02 2399 4505 - Fax: +39 02 2399 4568
feb 07 tue 2023

MOX Seminar
Antonia Larese, The Material Point Method for the simulation of water-related hazards and their interaction with critical structures, 02-07-2023, 14:00
- MOX Seminar
- Antonia Larese
- Universita degli studi di Padova & Technical University of Munich
- The Material Point Method for the simulation of water-related hazards and their interaction with critical structures
- Tuesday, 7 February 2023 at 14:00
- Aula Saleri VI piano - Dip. Matematica
- Abstract
  
  In recent years, natural hazards involving large mass movements such as landslides, debris flows, and mud flows have been increasing their frequency and intensity as a consequence of climate change and other related factors. These phenomena often carry huge rocks and heavy materials that may, directly or indirectly, cause damage to our structures resulting in a relevant socio-economic impact.
  The numerical simulation of the above events still represents a big challenge mainly for two reasons: the need to deal with large strain regimes and the intrinsic multiphysics nature of such events.
  While the Finite Element Method (FEM) represents a recognized, well established and widely used technique in many engineering fields, unfortunately it shows some limitation when dealing with problems where large deformation occurs. In the last decades many possible alternatives have been proposed and developed to overcome this drawback, such as the use of the so called particle-based methods. Among these, the Material Point Method (MPM) blends the advantages of both mesh-based and mesh-less methods. MPM avoids the problems of mesh tangling while preserving the accuracy of Lagrangian FEM and it is especially suited for non linear problems in solid mechanics and fluid dynamics.
  The talk will show some recent advances in MPM formulations [1], presenting both an irreducible and mixed formulation stabilized using variational multiscale techniques, as well as the partitioned strategies to couple MPM with other techniques such as FEM or DEM [2, 3]. All algorithms are implemented within the Kratos-Multiphysics open-source framework and available under the BSD license.
  References
  [1] Iaconeta, I., Larese, A., Rossi, R. and Guo, Z., Comparison of a Material Point Method and
  a Meshfree Galerkin Method for the simulation of cohesive-frictional materials, Materials, 10 , 1150, (2017).
  [2] Chandra, B., Singer, V., Teschemacher, T., Wuechner, R. and Larese, A., Nonconforming
  Dirichlet boundary conditions in Implicit Material Point Method by means of penalty augmentation,
  Acta Geotechnica, 16(8), 2315-2335 (2021).
  [3] Singer, V., Sautter, K.B., Larese, A., Wuchner, R. and Bletzinger, K.U.,, A Partitioned
  Material Point Method and Discrete Element Method Coupling Scheme , Under revision in Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences (2022).
  Contatto: anna.scotti@polimi.it
- Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Matematica edificio 14, via E. Bonardi 9, 20133 Milano - Telefono: +39 02 2399 4505 - Fax: +39 02 2399 4568
feb 08 wed 2023

Seminar
Bruno Volzone, Long-time behavior for local and nonlocal porous medium equations with small initial energy, 02-08-2023, 15:15
- Seminar
- Bruno Volzone
- Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Parthenope'
- Long-time behavior for local and nonlocal porous medium equations with small initial energy
- Wednesday, 8 February 2023 at 15:15
- Aula Seminari III Piano
- Abstract
  
  In the first part of the talk, we will describe some aspects of a study developed in a joint paper with L. Brasco concerning the long-time behavior for the solution of the Porous Medium Equation in an open bounded connected set, with smooth boundary and sign-changing initial datum. Homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions are considered. We prove that if the initial datum has sufficiently small energy, then the solution converges to a nontrivial constant-sign solution of a sublinear Lane-Emden equation, once suitably rescaled.
  We also give a sufficient energetic criterion on the initial datum, which permits to decide whether convergence takes place towards the positive solution or to the negative one. The second part of the talk will be devoted to some new advances obtained in collaboration with G. Franzina, in the spirit of the ones explained above, for the study of the asymptotics of signed solutions for the Fractional Porous Medium Equation.
- Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Matematica edificio 14, via E. Bonardi 9, 20133 Milano - Telefono: +39 02 2399 4505 - Fax: +39 02 2399 4568
feb 14 tue 2023

MOX Seminar
Dario Andrini, Optimal design of planar shapes with active materials, 02-14-2023, 14:15
- MOX Seminar
- Dario Andrini
- MOX, Dipartimento di Matematica
- Optimal design of planar shapes with active materials
- Tuesday, 14 February 2023 at 14:15
- Aula Saleri - VI piano Dipartimento di Matematica
- Abstract
  
  Active materials (e.g., polymer gels, liquid crystal elastomers) have emerged as suitable candidates for shape morphing applications, where the configuration of a body is varied in a controlled fashion upon triggering the active response. Given the large variety of these materials, a natural question is to compare different morphing mechanisms for a desired functional shape change and select the most effective one with respect to a certain optimality criterion. To address such a question, we set an optimal control problem that allows to determine the active strains suitable to attain a desired equilibrium transformation, while minimizing the complexity of the activation. Specifically, we discuss the planar morphing of active, hyperelastic bodies in the plain-strain regime, in the absence of external forces.
  Our approach aims to be general enough to account for a broad set of active materials through the notion of target metric. For the case of affine shape changes, we derive explicit conditions on the geometry of the reference configuration for the optimality of homogeneous target metrics.
  More complex shape changes are then analyzed via numerical simulations. We explore the impact on optimal solutions of different objective functionals, some of them inspired by features of existing active materials. Further, we show how stresses arising from incompatibilities contribute to reduce the complexity of the controls. We believe that our approach may be exploited for the accurate design of active systems and may also contribute to gather insight into the morphing strategies adopted by biological systems, as a result of natural selection.
  
  Contatto: nicola.parolini@polimi.it
- Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Matematica edificio 14, via E. Bonardi 9, 20133 Milano - Telefono: +39 02 2399 4505 - Fax: +39 02 2399 4568
feb 15 wed 2023

Seminar
Alberto Saracco, “A cosa serve la matematica?” e altre domande che sente ogni insegnante., 02-15-2023, 15:00
- Seminar
- Alberto Saracco
- Dipartimento di Scienze matematiche, fisiche e informatiche; Università di Parma
- “A cosa serve la matematica?” e altre domande che sente ogni insegnante.
- Wednesday, 15 February 2023 at 15:00
- Sala Consiglio VII piano
- Abstract
  
  “A cosa serve la matematica?” Qual è quel docente che non si è mai sentito rivolgere questa domanda? Spesso è una domanda provocatoria, posta dallo studente più "simpatico" della classe. Ma a volte è una domanda sincera, posta da uno sconosciuto in treno. Solitamente siamo troppo stanchi o demoralizzati per rispondere a questa domanda. Ovviamente la matematica è utilissima, nel mondo di oggi, pieno di dati e in cui ogni aspetto della vita è intrecciato ad applicazioni, banali o profonde della matematica. Forse però vale la pena di soffermarsi un attimo in più su tale domanda e cercare di sviscerarla meglio...
  Cosa vuol dire "a cosa serve la matematica?"?
  La matematica pura è utile?
  Perché i politici devono sapere la matematica?
  A cosa serve a me la matematica?
  L'utilità della matematica è interessante per chi la studia?
  Nel seminario più che fornire le mie personali risposte proverò a dare un po' di materiale per pensarci su. Spero possa essere utile per avere qualche idea in più la prossima volta che sentirete queste o altre domande...
- Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Matematica edificio 14, via E. Bonardi 9, 20133 Milano - Telefono: +39 02 2399 4505 - Fax: +39 02 2399 4568

feb 23 thu 2023

MOX Colloquia
Nick Trefethen, Applications of AAA rational approximation, 02-23-2023, 14:00

MOX Colloquia
Nick Trefethen
University of Oxford
Applications of AAA rational approximation
Thursday, 23 February 2023 at 14:00
Aula Consiglio VII piano - Dipartimento di Matematica
Abstract

For the first time, a method has recently become available for fast computation of near-best rational approximations on arbitrary sets in the real line or complex plane: the AAA algorithm (Nakatsukasa-Sete-T. 2018). We will present the algorithm and then demonstrate a number of applications, including
* detection of singularities
* model order reduction
* analytic continuation
* functions of matrices
* nonlinear eigenvalue problems
* interpolation of equispaced data
* smooth extension of multivariate real functions
* extrapolation of ODE and PDE solutions into the complex plane
* solution of Laplace problems
* conformal mapping
* Wiener-Hopf factorization

(joint work with Stefano Costa and others)

Contatto: paola.antonietti@polimi.it

Nick Trefethen

Nick Trefethen is Professor of Numerical Analysis and head of the Numerical Analysis Group at Oxford University. He was educated at Harvard and Stanford and held positions at NYU, MIT, and Cornell before moving to Oxford in 1997. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and served during 2011-2012 as President of SIAM. He has won many prizes including the Gold Medal of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, the Naylor Prize of the London Mathematical Society, and the Polya and von Neumann Prizes from SIAM. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Fribourg and Stellenbosch University.
As an author Trefethen is known for his books including Numerical Linear Algebra (1997), Spectral Methods in MATLAB (2000), Spectra and Pseudospectra (2005), Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice (2013/2019), Exploring ODEs (2018), and An Applied Mathematician's Apology (2022). He organized the SIAM 100-Dollar, 100-Digit Challenge in 2002 and is the inventor of Chebfun.