9th Simon Stevin Lecture on Optimization in Engineering
"Topology Optimization of Multiphysics Systems - Successes and Challenges"
Martin P. Bendsøe, (Technical University of Denmark)
E-Mail:
M.P.Bendsoe@mat.dtu.dk,
Web:
www.mat.dtu.dk/people/M.P.Bendsoe/
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PosterAbstract:
The field of topology design involves the use of a multitude of computational tools. These encompass geometry modeling, analysis methods (primarily FEM) and optimization algorithms. That optimization has to be performed means that these three ingredients have to be linked together in a rational manner and that all tools are geared to the task. This talk provides an overview of these aspects and on some of the modeling and computational challenges that we face. Emphasis is on the work involved in extending the technology to new application areas involving new and multiple types of physics.
Biographical Information:
Martin Philip Bendsoe received his MS degree from the University of Copenhagen and his PhD from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Currently he is a full professor and head of the department of mathematics at DTU. He is a member of the executive committee of the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization since 1996, of the executive committee of the Congress Committee of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics since 2004, and, of the editorial boards of Control and Cybernetics, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (SMO), International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (IJNME), Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, and Computers and Structures.
Dr. Bendsoe received several awards, such as the STATOIL Award and the Villum Kann Rasmussens Annual Award. He is the author of several well-known text books on topology optimization and related topics.
About the Lecture Series:
The "Simon Stevin Lecture Series on Optimization in Engineering" is set up in order to promote optimization in engineering. For this aim, every quarter of the year an outstanding international scholar is invited to report on latest progress in the development of optimization algorithms and their applications in engineering.
Simon Stevin (1548-1620) was a Flemish mathematician and engineer. Among other, he helped to advance the use of decimal fractions, was the first to explain the tides by the attraction of the moon, and discovered the hydrostatic paradox. He made numerous inventions, among them a wind propelled carriage with sails, the "land yacht", which once impressed Prince Maurice of Orange as it moved faster than horses, in around 1600 on the beach between Scheveningen and Petten. Simon Stevin was fond of promoting the use of science in daily life and in craftmanship, and translated various mathematical terms into dutch. Among other, he introduced the dutch word for mathematics, "wiskunde".
Directly after this Simon Stevin Lecture, a little reception will be given at 18:00 in the salons of Arenberg Castle, to which all attendants of the lecture are most warmly welcome!
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This Stevin lecture is co-sponsored by ICCoS (Identification and Control of Complex Systems), a Scientific Research Network of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen).
