One-day conference on Calculus of Variations - 2nd edition

vendredi 12 oct. 2018, 09:30 → 17:30 Europe/Paris

Bâtiment M3 - Salle de séminaire, 3iéme étage (Laboratoire Paul Painlevé)

Benoît Merlet (Université de Lille), Ingrid Lacroix-Violet (Université de Lille)

Aims and scope

The aim of this day is to bring together experts in Calculus of Variations with applications in different areas of physics, mechanics and image processing. 

This day features six invited plenary lectures. Limited funding for the participation of doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers is available, see below. 

 

 

Program

Confirmed Plenary speakers: 

• Élie Bretin, Institut Camille Jordan, Lyon

• Antonin Chambolle, École Polytechnique

• Flaviana Iurlano, Sorbonne Université, Paris

• Vincent Millot, Université Paris-Diderot

• Antonin Monteil, Université catholique de Louvain

• Filippo Santambrogio, Université Paris-Saclay

A detailed program is available here.

 

Registration

Registrations are now opened.

 

Funding

Limited funding for the local expenses of students and young researchers is available. If you wish to apply for such support, please register and send a CV and a publication list by email to Benoît Merlet.

Abstracts.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Welcome

10:00 → 10:50 Least gradient functions and optimal transport

The least gradient problem (minimizing the BV norm with given boundary data), motivated by both image processing applications and connections with minimal surfaces, is known to be equivalent, in the plane, to the Beckmann minimal-flow problem with source and target measures located on the boundary of the domain. Sobolev regularity of functions of least gradient is equivalent in this setting to L^p bounds on the solution of the Beckmann problem (i.e. on the transport density) and can be attacked with techniques which are now standard in optimal transport. From the transport point of view, the novelty of the estimates that I will present, coming from a joint paper with S. Dweik, lies in the fact they are obtained fro transport between measures which are concentrated on the boundary. From the BVpoint of view, a new result is the W^{1,p} regularity of the least gradient function whenever the boundary datum is W^{1,p} as a 1D function: moreover, the optimal transport framework is strong enough to deal with arbitrary strictly convex norms instead of the Euclidean one with almost no effort.

Orateur: Filippo Santambrogio (Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay)

10:50 → 11:40 Applications s-harmoniques, régularité et singularités

Dans cet exposé, je présenterai des résultats de régularité partielle pour les applications s-harmoniques à valeurs dans une sphère. J’expliquerai également un résultat de classification des singularités dans le cas s=1/2, pour des applications minimisantes d’un domaine plan à valeurs dans le cercle.

Orateur: Vincent Millot (Université Paris Diderot)

11:40 → 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 → 12:50 Concentration analysis of brittle damage

This talk is concerned with an asymptotic analysis of a variational model of brittle damage, when the damaged zone concentrates into a set of zero Lebesgue measure, and, at the same time, the stiffness of the damaged material becomes arbitrarily small. In a particular non-trivial regime, concentration leads to a limit energy with linear growth as typically encountered in plasticity. I will show that, while the singular part of the limit energy can be easily described, the identification of the bulk part of the limit energy requires a subtler analysis of the concentration properties of the displacements. I will present a candidate bulk density that arises from a possible scenario. This is an ongoing work with J.-F. Babadjian and F. Rindler.

Orateur: Flaviana Iurlano (Sorbonne Université)

12:50 → 15:00 Lunch

15:00 → 15:50 Ginzburg-Landau relaxation for harmonic maps valued into manifolds

Orateur: Antonin Monteil (Université catholique de Louvain)

abstract_Antonin_Monteil.pdf

15:50 → 16:40 Phase field approximation of the Steiner problem : a numerical investigation.

We analyze in this talk the abitity of different phase field models to approximate solutions of the Steiner problem. In particular, we will first focus on the recent phase field model introduced by
Bonnivard, Lemenant and Santanbrogio that couples a Cahn Hilliard type functional with a penalyzed term forcing the compacness of the desired set. We then propose and justify the convergence of some slightly modified versions, which improve the regularity of its solution and use a better uniform contribution of the penalized term. In particular, we show that this phase field model are able to consider a large number of points in dimension 2 and 3.
Finally, we also propose in comparison some numerical experiments using the approach of Chambolle, Ferrari and Merlet.

Orateur: Elie Bretin (Institut Camille Jordan)

16:40 → 17:30 A «Total variation» with curvature penalization.

In this joint work with T. Pock (TU Graz) we propose a convex variant of the total variation which penalizes the curvature of the level lines, and is based on a Gauss map (lifting) of curves to represent curvature dependent energies as convex functionals. Applications to "image inpainting" are presented.

Orateur: Antonin Chambolle (CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique)