Location
SeisMath IP 2012 will take place from 27 August to 7 September 2012 at the University of L'Aquila.
Lectures will be given at the Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, located in Coppito (an area to the west of L'Aquila, see the MAP) close to the main hospital "San Salvatore".
Students will be accommodated in flats in Pizzoli, a small town at about 10 Km from L'Aquila. Accommodation will be available from August, Sunday 26 up to September, Saturday 8.
Students' flats include:
- fully equipped kitchen (cooker+oven, fridge, freezer, no microwave...)
- en-suite bathroom (sink, shower, toilet and bidet)
- free internet connection
- blankets, bed linen and towels
- cleaning
More information about your arrival and stay will be sent to you by email.
Click on the links below to find out how to reach the location of the IP 2011.
- How to get to L'Aquila
- Bus timetable from Pizzoli to L'Aquila
- Info about the student's residence in Pizzoli
View Student Residence, Pizzoli in a larger map
Reimbursement
Applicants from partner institutions are eligible for a reimbursement of living and travel expenses.
This contribution is offered by the LLP Italian National Agency. 
We assume to select:
- around 30 students (MSc or PhD) for the contribution for travel costs and the contribution for accommodation and subsistence costs: this corresponds to about 3 students for each partner institution.
- around 10 teachers for the contribution for travel costs and the contribution for accommodation and subsistence costs.
The contact person of each institution in the Organizing Committee is responsible for the selection of students in their universities.
Details about Reimbursement
Reservation for lodging and contribution for subsistence costs.
Please notice that students and teachers from partner universities will be hosted in university premises free of charge for the whole period of the IP. Unfortunately, the Erasmus agency applies a very low daily amount for subsistence costs of students (24 euro per day, both for lodging and full board). That's why, in addition to the accommodation, we can confirm that we will only be able to offer students free access to the university canteen (open on working days). We hope we'll be able to offer some additional support to students, but we cannot guarantee anything at the moment.
Presentation
Earthquakes occur nearly constantly around Europe in places like Greece, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Turkey. But earthquakes can occur almost anywhere. Italy is a well-known complex earthquake zone. In Italy there is the collision of Africa and Europe, it is highly fractured and broken up, there are a lot of micro plates moving around, which create a lot of different types of fault action.
An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale and 6.3 in the moment magnitude scale hit L'Aquila on April 6th, 2009. There have been a large number of minor tremors since December 2008. Along with the stories of tragedy in L'Aquila, there are also stories that the earthquake was predicted, and that the predictions were ignored. Earthquake prediction remains an elusive goal of seismology. Earthquake source mechanisms are complex and involve many variables and factors. Earthquake prediction can be divided into long-, medium- and short-term phases. The short-term prediction of earthquakes has considerable allure. However, it is beset by problems. Although earthquakes are complex multi-scale phenomena, we now have much better models for earthquake nucleation and rupture processes, associated phenomena such as tsunamis, and tools with which earthquakes can be carefully studied from both deterministic and statistical points of view.
The Intensive Programme (IP) called "Mathematical Models in Seismology - SeisMath 2012" will consist of a set of short courses and seminars. Contributors will take into account methods, modelling and simulations related to above mentioned aspects of seismology. Although the need for newly developed mathematical modelling within seismology is very strong, its clear identification as an interdisciplinary research/training context at a European level is still in progress. This programme aims to provide a relevant contribution to this process by exploiting the scientific competencies of the partners. The short courses will be taught by physicians, geologists, engineers and mathematicians.The programme is addressed mainly to MSc and PhD students in Applied Mathematics, but also in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Applied Physics.
The participation of students and teachers from the partner universities will be supported by the LLP Erasmus Programme. The programme will be held in the period August 27 - September 7, 2012.
To register, go to the Application Form.
Partners
List of Partner Institutions and Local Coordinators of the SeisMath IP 2012
| Institution | Local Coordinator | Contact |
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University of L'Aquila (Italy) - Coordinator |
Prof. Bruno Rubino | bruno.rubino[AT]univaq.it |
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Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic) |
Prof. Josef Slapal | slapal[AT]fme.vutbr.cz |
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University of Hamburg (Germany) | Prof. Armin Iske | iske[AT]math.uni-hamburg.de |
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) | Prof. Nicholas Alikakos | nalikako[AT]math.uoa.gr |
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University of Crete (Greece) | Prof. Chrysoula Tsogka | tsogka[AT]tem.uoc.gr |
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Politecnico di Milano (Italy) | Prof. Roberto Paolucci | paolucci[AT]stru.polimi.it |
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University of Udine (Italy) | Prof. Antonino Morassi | antonino.morassi[AT]uniud.it |
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North University of Baia Mare (Romania) | Prof. Petrica Pop | petrica.pop[AT]ubm.ro |
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Autonomous University of Barcelona (Catalunia, Spain) | Prof. Aureli Alabert | aureli.alabert[AT]uab.cat |
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Middle East Technical University (Turkey) | Prof. Ersan Akyildiz | ersan[AT]metu.edu.tr |
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University of Maine (France) | Prof. Sohbi Sahraoui | sohbi.sahraoui[AT]univ-lemans.fr |
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Second University of Naples (Italy) | Prof. Eugenio Lippiello | lippiello[AT]sa.infn.it |
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University of Naples (Italy) | Prof. Aldo Zollo | aldo.zollo[AT]unina.it |
Lectures
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
TITLE
Classification and Regression for Data Analysis
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LECTURER
Jochen Garcke, Universität Bonn, Fraunhofer SCAI
OBJECTIVES
The main focus of the course will be on supervised learning for classification and regression. Attention will be given to generalisability and predictive accuracy and the practical contexts in which methods are applied. Relevant statistical theory will mostly be assumed and described rather than derived mathematically. There will be more attention to the mathematical derivation and description of the algorithms. Topics to be covered include linear and additive models, support vector machines, Gaussian processes, Bayesian Classifiers, training/test approach to assessing accuracy, and covariance shift.
TOPICS
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TITLE
Modern Methods in Dimensionality Reduction and Persistent Homology for Signal and Data Analysis
HOURS
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LECTURER
OBJECTIVES
Over the last decade, new advances in signal and data analysis have been achieved with the application of geometrical and topological concepts. In this lecture, we will learn about modern developments in dimensionality reduction and manifold learning by studying important algorithms such as Kernel PCA, Isomap, Laplacian Eigenmanps, Local Tangent Space Alignment, etc. Additionally, we study important trends for data analysis based on powerful methods of persistent homology which has emerged as an important subfield of computational topology. Concrete applications in audio and image analysis will be covered both from a theoretical and computational point of view.
TOPICS
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TITLE
An Introduction to Compressive Sensing
HOURS
8
LECTURER
Holger Rauhut, Universität Bonn
TOPICS
Compressive sensing is a recent area in mathematical signal processing that predicts that certain signals (vectors, functions) can be recovered from what was previously believed to be incomplete information. The key observation is that many real-world signals are sparse in the sense that they can be well-represented by an expansion with only a small number of non-zero terms. Sparse signals can be accurately reconstructed from a small number of linear measurements via efficient algorithms such as l1-minimization. Remarkably, all known provably optimal measurement matrices in this context are random matrices. Of particular interest for applications are structured random matrices such as random partial Fourier matrices, or partial random circulant matrices. Applications of compressed sensing include medical imaging, geophysical imaging, analog to digital conversion, statistics and more.
TITLE
An introduction to one-dimensional inverse problems in vibration
HOURS
8
LECTURER
Antonio Marassi, University of Udine (italy)TOPICS
Classical vibration theory is concerned with the determination of the response of a given dynamical system to a prescribed input. These are called direct problems in vibration. However, when one studies a phenomenon which is governed by the equations of classical dynamics, the application of the model to real life situations often requires the knowledge of constitutive and/or geometrical parameters which are not completely known or are inaccessible to direct measurements. Therefore, in several areas in applied science and technology, one has to deal with inverse problems in vibration. Examples concern with the determination of the mass density of the Earth by its natural frequencies; with the determination of the profile of a thin rod or beam by its eigenproperties, and so on. The main focus of the course will be the presentation of classical uniqueness, stability and reconstruction approaches for Sturm-Liouville and fourth-order (Euler-Bernoulli) operators governing the longitudinal vibration and flexural vibration of a thin rod, respectively. Topics to be covered include the construction of isospectral/quasi-isospectral systems and damage identification in mechanical systems by real data.
Committee
Scientific Committee
- Aysegul Askan (Civil Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Turkey),
- Alvaro Corral (Centre de Recerca Matematica, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain),
- Armin Iske (Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg, Germany),
- Warner Marzocchi (INGV, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy),
- Antonino Morassi (Department of Georesources and Territory, University of Udine, Italy),
- Roberto Paolucci (Structural Engineering Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy),
- Mircea Radulian (Scientific Director National Institute for Earth Physics, Bucharest, Romania),
- Bruno Rubino (Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of L'Aquila, Italy),
- Chrysoula Tsogka (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, Greece),
Apply
Application procedures
1. First phase: Registration
- Students and teachers who want to participate in the IP will have to register using the online application form.
- After you have registered and confirmed your email address, your application will be evaluated by the IP Committee (this may require one week at the longest).
- You will receive an email to the address you provided to inform you about the evaluation of your application.
- You will be asked to log in and upload a couple of documents to confirm your position (second phase).
- If you are a student eligible for reimbursement, please note that you will have to participate in the programme for the whole period. As for teachers, no restriction on the number of days of participation will be applied.
- Registrations will be closed when we cover 50 available places for students and 10 available places for teachers.
2. Second phase: Confirming your position
In case you have been selected to participate in the IP (see our message sent by email), please log into your account and submit the following documents, saved as pdf files only:
- Selected students/teachers who are not from partner institutions:
- Copy of your passport (or id card for EU applicants) and visa (if required).
- Selected students/teachers who are from partner institutions:
- Copy of your passport (or id card for EU applicants) and visa (if required).
- Flight ticket. Please notice that:
- We are allowed to reimburse travel costs only to teachers and students (MSc and PhD) who are from partner institutions.
- The Erasmus Agency requires each single participant to certify they bought the cheapest flight ticket they could find. In addition, only tickets from/to the town of your home institution can be reimbursed.
- Please upload a copy of your electronic ticket as soon as possible. If you have an online check-in, please upload a pdf copy of it, as well. Otherwise, please keep the boarding pass with you and give it to us when you arrive. Without that, we will not be able to reimburse your travel expenses!
- As for the participants who need a visa, please contact the organizers at info[AT]seismath.eu to ask for a specific invitation letter. The cost of the visa will be reimbursed if the participant provides the original receipt of payment.
- For any additional tickets (or not electronic ones), when you are here, you'll have to provide us with the original one. In addition, you will be requested to provide us with the original boarding pass (if you have not uploaded the electronic one).
For more information about reimbursement, click HERE.
Participants
Applications for SeisMath IP 2011 are open!
Applications for the 2011 edition of SeisMath Intensive Programme have just been opened!
For more information about the IP, click here.
To apply, click here.
