Professor Alfio Quarteroni gave the public lecture named “Mathematics for Industrial Innovation, Life Sciences, and the Environment” on May, 7 and the academic lecture named “Mathematical Models and Numerical Simulations for the Cardiovascular System” on May,9 , 2013 at AMSS.
In his public lecture, Mathematical models are enabling advances in increasingly complex areas of engineering, technology and life sciences. One reason behind their growing success is the impetuous progress of computers power. Another, even more important, is the increasing demand of quantitative and rigorous tools for a better understanding of natural and biological phenomena, the optimization of industrial processes, the simulation of environmental phenomena and extreme events. Besides, he discussed the role of mathematical modeling in applied sciences, and showed some results in different fields such as medicine, urban planning, industrial innovation, and sports.
In his academic lecture, Mathematical models allow the description of the complex fluid-structure interaction which govern the blood motion and artery wall deformation under the pressure pulse. Moreover, appropriate reduction strategies can be devised to allow for an effective description of the interaction between large, 3D components, and small 1D branches of the circulatory system, as well as the simulation, control and shape optimization of assisted devices or surgical prostheses. This presentation will address some of these issues and a few representative applications.
Prof. Alfio Quarteroni is the Director of the Mathematics Institute of Computational Science and Engineering at EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (Switzerland). He is also the Director of the Center for Advanced Modeling Science at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy). He works in the field of Mathematical Modeling, Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing and Numerical Approximation of Partial Differential Equations, with applications to: fluid mechanics; aerospace engineering; yacht engineering; geophysics; biomechanics; medical systems; acoustics, elastic, seismic and electromagnetic wave pr-opagation phenomena; architectural landscape design by mathematical modeling; improvement of sports performance (America's cup sailing yachts, olympic rowing, swimsuits); sports and rehabilitation engineering.
Prof. Alfio Quarteroni has received many distinguished awards and honors including the NASA Group Achievement Award for the pioneering work in Computational Fluid Dynamics (1992), the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize (2004), the IACM (International Association of Computational Mechanics) Fellow Award (2004), and Fellow of SIAM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (since 2009). He was elected the member of the European Academy of Sciences, the Italian Academy of Sciences, the Lombard Academy of Science and Letters. He has been a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians ICM2006. His team has carried out the aerodynamic and hydrodynamic simulations for the optimization of Alinghi, the Swiss sailing yacht that has won two editions of the America's Cup in 2003 and 2007.
