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Paolini: Origami and PDEs

Paolini:
We will consider the problem of finding piecewise smooth maps whose gradient is an orthogonal
matrix and which satisfy a Dirichlet boundary condition. We will see that these maps can be
determined by their singular set, i.e., by the set of points where they are not differentiable. To
satisfy the boundary condition we will need to construct a fractal singular set composed by
modules with "self-similar" boundary conditions. We will also point out the relation with paperfolding and we will exploit this relation to build the base modules and hence complete some
explicit constructions. The work presented has been done in collaboration with Bernard
Dacorogna and Paolo Marcellini.
http://cvgmt.sns.it/seminar/756/
When
Fri Dec 3, 2010 2:15pm – 3:15pm Coordinated Universal Time
Where
EPFL - Lausanne (map)