Irene Fonseca

Professor Carnegie Mellon University

  • Pittsburgh PA

Irene Fonseca's research focus is on training in applied mathematics at the broad interface between the physical sciences and engineering.

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Biography

Irene Fonseca's primary focus is on research and training in applied mathematics at the broad interface between mathematics, the physical sciences and engineering. Irene's research program includes the mathematical study of shape memory alloys, ferroelectric, magnetic materials, composites, thin structures, phase transitions in fluids and solids, and the mathematical analysis of image segmentation, denoising, detexturing and recolorization in computer vision.

Areas of Expertise

Ferroelectric
Engineering
Business and Economics
Applied Mathematics
Shape Memory Alloys

Media Appearances

SIAM: Irene Fonseca president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics – Pittsburgh,PA

Portuguese American Journal  online

2011-11-28

Mathematician Irene Fonseca, 55, was elected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) the world’s largest and most prestigious scientific society dedicated to applied mathematics.

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NSF Builds More Partnerships for International Research and Education

National Science Foundation  online

2011-02-16

Science at the Triple Point Between Mathematics, Mechanics and Materials Science (Carnegie Mellon University) PIRE funding will enable PI Irene Fonseca and an international network of mathematicians from the United States, Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany and Italy to collaborate at the interface of mathematics and materials science and to develop sophisticated new methods for understanding the complexities of advanced materials. Graduate courses will be developed and U.S. students will strengthen their interdisciplinary and global research skills by conducting international research with multiple mentors and/or by participating in an international industrial research internship. Such international curriculum and student mobility will help internationalize U.S. institutions and place them in a vibrant international network of applied mathematicians.

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Accomplishments

Senior Prize

International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics

Education

University of Minnesota

M.S.

1983

University of Minnesota

Ph.D.

1985

University of Lisbon

Licenciatura

Mathematics

1980

Affiliations

  • European Academy of Sciences : Fellow
  • American Mathematical Society : Fellow
  • SIAM : Fellow
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)

Articles

Higher order Ambrosio–Tortorelli scheme with non-negative spatially dependent parameters

Advances in Calculus of Variations

2023

The Ambrosio–Tortorelli approximation scheme with weighted underlying metric is investigated. It is shown that it Γ-converges to a Mumford–Shah image segmentation functional depending on the weight ωdx, where ω is a special function of bounded variation, and on its values at the jumps.

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Global and local energy minimizers for a nanowire growth model

AIHPC

2023

We consider a model for vapor–liquid–solid growth of nanowires proposed in the physical literature. Liquid drops are described as local or global volume-constrained minimizers of the capillarity energy outside a semi-infinite convex obstacle modeling the nanowire. We first address the existence of global minimizers and then, in the case of rotationally symmetric nanowires, we investigate how the presence of a sharp edge affects the shape of local minimizers and the validity of Young’s law.

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The mathematics of thin structures

Quarterly of Applied Mathematics

2022

This article offers various mathematical contributions to the behavior of thin films. The common thread is to view thin film behavior as the variational limit of a three-dimensional domain with a related behavior when the thickness of that domain vanishes. After a short review in Section 1 of the various regimes that can arise when such an asymptotic process is performed in the classical elastic case, giving rise to various well-known models in plate theory (membrane, bending, Von Karmann, etc…), the other sections address various extensions of those initial results.

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