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A Continuum Membrane Model for Small Deformations of a Spider Orb Web

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Prof. Antonino Morassi has a background in engineering (MS) and mathematics (MS). Since 2003, he has been a full professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures at the University of Udine, Italy. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), the University of Lexington (Kentucky, USA), the University of Sapporo (Japan), the Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain), and the University of São Paulo (Brazil). In his scientific activity, he has dealt with theoretical and applied inverse problems in relation to elasticity and structural identification. His most recent research interests concern the modeling of complex vibrating systems, such as nanostructures and spider webs, as well as the identification of their mechanical properties using dynamic data.

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Hearing Spider Orb Webs

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Dr. Alexandre Kawano earned his PhD in Engineering from Yokohama National University, Japan, and his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of São Paulo—USP, Brazil. He serves as an associate professor in the Department of Mechatronics Engineering at USP. His research interests focus on mathematical inverse problems applied to structural engineering. In particular, he is concerned with inverse problems involving a combination of structural elements.

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Degenerate Elliptic Equations Arising from Mechanics of Orb Webs: Qualitative Properties of Generalized Solutions

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Prof. Dr. Di Fazio was born in Catania in 1963. He obtained his degree in Mathematics (University of Catania) in 1986 110/110 cum laude, and his PhD in 1992 in Mathematics (Partial Differential Equations) under the supervision of Professor Filippo Chiarenza, University of Catania. He has been a full Professor the University of Catania since 2007. He also acts as chair of the Master’s program in Mathematics at the University of Catania. He is a visiting Professor in Italy at the University of Bologna, the University of Firenze, Politecnico di Milano, Università di Napoli, Università di Salerno, Università di Urbino, and Università di Trento. internationally, he is a visiting Professor at Temple University (Philadelphia PA), MSRI (Berkeley CA), Università Autonoma de Madrid, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo University of Sciences, Chuo University in Tokyo, University of Kyoto, KAUST (Saudi Arabia), Bandung Institute of Technology ITB (Indonesia), and the University of Coimbra (Portugal). His research interest are related to regularity problems for elliptic PDEs and boundedness properties of integral operators acting on Morrey spaces. He is the author of the following books: Y. Sawano, G. Di Fazio, D.I. Hakim—Morrey Spaces: Introduction and Applications to Integral Operators and PDE’s, Volumes I & II ed. Taylor & Francis (2020)

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Gas-like Models in Econophysics: Some Results

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Prof. Dr. Ricardo López-Ruiz, MS, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Science, University of Zaragoza, Spain. He is also an associate researcher of complex systems at the School of Mathematics, University of Zaragoza. Previously, he has worked as a lecturer at the University of Navarra, the Public University of Navarra, and UNED Calatayud, all in Spain. He completed his postdoc with Prof. Yves Pomeau at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, and with Prof. Gabriel Mindlin at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His areas of interest include statistical complexity and nonlinear models, chaotic maps and applications, multiagent systems, econophysics, big data, and artificial intelligence techniques.