Prof. Alfio Quarteroni: "Taking Mathematics to Heart"

In this presentation I will highlight the great potential offered by the interplay between data science and computational science to efficiently solve real
life large scale problems. The leading application that I will address is the numerical simulation of the heart function.
The motivation behind this interest is that cardiovascular diseases unfortunately represent one of the leading causes of death in Western Countries.
Mathematical models based on first principles allow the description of the blood motion in the human circulatory system, as well as the interaction between
electrical, mechanical and fluid-dynamical processes occurring in the heart. This is a classical environment where multi-physics and multi-scale processes have to be addressed.
Appropriate numerical strategies can be devised to allow for an effective description of the fluid in large and medium size arteries, the analysis of physiological and pathological conditions, and 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 of clinical interest.

Program:
17:15 Presentation, Jan S. Hesthaven, Dean of the Faculty of Basic Sciences
17:30 Alfio Quarteroni, "Taking Mathematics to Heart"
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Biographie
Alfio Quarteroni is Director of the Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Lausanne (Switzerland), since 1998.
He is the founder (and first director) of MOX at Politecnico of Milan (2002) and MATHICSE at EPFL, Lausanne (2010). He is co-founder (and President) of MOXOFF, a spin-off company at Politecnico of Milan (2010).
He is author of 25 books, editor of 9 books, author of more than 300 papers published in international Scientific Journals and Conference Proceedings, member of the editorial board of 25 International Journals and Editor in Chief of two book series published by Springer.
He has been an invited or plenary speaker in more than 300 International Conferences and Academic Departments, in particular he has been invited speaker at ICM 2002 in Beijing and plenary speaker at ICM 2006 in Madrid.
Among his awards and honors are: the NASA Group Achievement Award for the pioneering work in Computational Fluid Dynamics in 1992, the Ghislieri prize, 2013, and the International Galileo Galilei prize for Sciences 2015. He is doctor Honoris Causa in Naval Engineering from University of Trieste, Italy, 2003, SIAM Fellow (first row) since 2009, IACM (International Association of Computational Mechanics) Fellow since 2004. ,He is the recipient of the Galileian Chair from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy ,2001, member of the Italian Academy of Science, member of the European Academy of Science, member of the Academia Europaea.
He is the Recipient of two ERC Advanced Grants in 2008 and 2017 and of two ERC PoC (Proof of Concept) grants in 2012 and 2015.
His research interests concern Mathematical Modelling, Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing, and Application to: fluid mechanics, geophysics, medicine and the improvement of sports performance. His research Group at EPFL has contributed to the preliminary design of Solar Impulse, the Swiss long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft project; his research group at EPFL has carried out the mathematical simulation for the optimisation of performances of the Alinghi yacht, the winner of two editions (2003 and 2007) of the America’s Cup.