ICNAAM 2012

10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS

SYMPOSIUM INVITATION
GIELIS TRANSFORMATION AND APPLICATIONS
Symposium Organizers:
Dr. Diego Caratelli Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Prof. Johan Gielis University of Antwerp, Belgium Prof. Paolo Emilio Ricci Campus Bio-Medico University, Italy

Symposium Abstract:
Describing and modeling nature is fascinating and, generally speaking, one of the most fundamental research activities: whether to model physical behaviors or geometric structures, to describe or to recognize natural shapes, every research community aims at representing nature as accurately as possible. Classical models are largely based on isotropic spaces. In nature however, anisotropy is the rule and different ways of measuring or geometrizing exist. In 2003 Gielis, introduced the so-called superformula which can be seen as a parametric formulation for generalized circles or ellipses. Since then, the Gielis formula, providing unification of natural and abstract shapes from elementary particles to space-time models, is spreading to different research areas. In this regard, the proposed symposium is meant to bring together researchers working on various applications of superformula in different fields of Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Physics, Electromagnetics, Fluid Dynamics, Nonlinear Physics, Numerical Analysis, Imaging, and related areas by providing a forum for the academic exchange of ideas, cooperation, and discussion of the latest achievements in the research.

Paper Submission:
Authors are warmly invited to submit contributions for review and possible presentation at the conference on topics of interest to the special session. All the papers in the form of extended abstracts are to be received in PDF format no later than July 22, 2012. Please consult the symposium Web site for the latest instructions, templates, and format examples.

Contact:
For additional information and inquiries regarding the special session, please contact Diego Caratelli at d.caratelli@tudelft.nl, Johan Gielis at johan.gielis@ua.ac.be, or Paolo E. Ricci at paoloemilioricci@gmail.com.

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Organizers Curriculum Vitae:

Diego Caratelli was born in Latina, Italy on May 2, 1975. He received the Laurea (summa cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy in 2000 and 2004, respectively. In 2005 he joined as a Contract Researcher the Department of Electronic Engineering, La Sapienza University of Rome, where he was appointed as Contract Professor of Interdisciplinary Laboratory in 2007-2010. Since 2007 he is with the International Research Centre for Telecommunications and Radar/Microwave Technology and Systems for Radar Group of Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, as a Senior Researcher. His main research activities include the design, analysis and experimental verification of printed microwave and millimeter-wave passive devices and wideband antennas for satellite, WLAN and GPR applications, the development of analytically based numerical techniques devoted to the modeling of electromagnetic field propagation and diffraction processes, as well as advances in the theory of special functions for mathematical physics and electromagnetics and the solution of boundary-value problems in complex domains. His scientific activity is witnessed by more than thirty scientific publications on international journals and books, as well as by the participation at several international conferences and symposia. Dr. Caratelli was the recipient of the Young Antenna Engineer Prize at the 32th European Space Agency Antenna Workshop. He received the 2010 Best Paper Award from the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES). He serves as reviewer for several international journals, and is a member of ACES and the Italian Electromagnetic Society (SIEm). Johan Gielis was born on July 8, 1962 and is married to Christel Dils, and they have two children, Violet (1993) and Fabian (1996). He holds a degree in horticultural engineering and obtained his PhD in 2010 at the Radboud University, Nijmegen. Initially his career focused on bamboo and biotechnology and he developed successful tissue culture technologies for tropical and temperate bamboos at Oprins Plant NV. He is visiting professor at the Universities of Antwerp and of Nanjing (China). He is also scientific director of the International Knowledge Center on Bamboo IKEBANA and editor of the Bamboo, Science and Culture. From the early nineties onwards he became interested in mathematical modelling of plants, bamboo in particular. In 1994 he started using Lam curves in the description of natural shapes and in 1997 he generalized Lam curves and surfaces to any symmetry. This was published in 2003 as Invited Special Paper in the American Journal of Botany. Since close to 200 papers have referenced or used what has become known as Gielis-Formula. His company Genicap (The Netherlands) develops applications in technology, including software for CAD/CAM. SupergraphxTM received the GATF InterTech Award for Innovative Excellence in 2004. The InterTech Technology Awards were inaugurated in 1978 as a way to honor the development of technologies predicted to have a major impact in the graphic arts and related industries. Currently technology developments focus on antennas, in a scientific cooperation with Dr. Diego Caratelli. He is also founder of the Simon Stevin Institute for Geometry and has coorganized various post-doctoral courses in geometry at the University of Louvain (Belgium), Univ. of Kragujevac (Serbia) and University of Murcia (Spain). He has also given lectures at Cornell University, Max Planck Institute Tubingen, and presented papers at various international conferences. Paolo Emilio Ricci was born on February 4th, 1944. He received his doctorial degree (cum laude) under the supervision of Prof. Gaetano Fichera at Rome University Sapienza. He was teaching and researching for forthy years at the University of Rome and Catania (1981). At present he is professor at the University Campus Bio-medico, and teacher at the UniNettuno Telematic University in Rome. In the period 1983-1992 he was Scientific director of the Journal Rendiconti di Matematica e delle sue Applicazioni. He is Associated Editor of several international Journals (Integral Transforms and Special Functions, Archives of Inequalities and Applications, Georgian Mathematical Journal, Reports of Seminar of I. Vekua Institute of Applied Mathematics, etc). He was the main organizer of the Symposia Problemi attuali dellAnalisi e della Fisica Matematica, Taormina (I: 1992; II: 1998; III: 2006); and member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee of the meetings: Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and their Applications (6th: 2001 Ostia; 7th: 2003, Copenhagen); 3rd Workshop on Advanced Special Functions and Related Topics in Differential Equations, (2001) Melfi; Potential Theory: Applications in Solid Mechanics and Acoustic and Electromagnetic scattering theory, (2003) Tbilisi; Complex Analysis, Partial Differential Equations and Mechanics of Continua, (2007) Tbilisi, Analysis, PDEs and Applications, (2008) Roma. He attended and gave lectures in many conferences (Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt, Moscow State University, Steklov Institute S. Petersburg, I. Vekua Institute of Applied Mathematics (Georgia), Tel Aviv (Israel), Guangzhou (China), Rostock, Chemnitz, Budapest, Jaipur (India), etc). In 2003 he was awarded Doctor honoris causa by the Tbilisi State University. He is the author/coauthor of around 200 scientific papers and author/editor of several books in the areas of pure and applied mathematics concerning the following fields: special functions, integral and discrete transforms, symbolic and umbral calculus, ordinary and partial differential equations, asymptotic analysis, quadrature rules, symmetrization problems, eigenvalues, matrix analysis, and other related subjects.