On the occasion of Mario Bertero retirement some of his friends and former students organized a workshop, in Genoa on the 2nd February 2011. The aim of the workshop was that of discussing with him some of the issues they have investigated through theoretical and numerical methods.

Scientific Program

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• Prof. Fabiana Zama, Prof. Elena Piccolomini
  Iterative algorithms for large size Least-Squares constrained regularization problems

• Prof. Pierre Sabatier
  First link with Mario: need for stability

• Dott. Iuri Frosio
  Mixture models and EM algorithms for radiographic images denoising: part 1

• Prof. Alberto Borghese
  Mixture models and EM algorithms for radiographic images denoising: part 2

• Prof. Christine De Mol
  Some Fairy Tales from Sparseland

• Prof. Giorgio Talenti
  Remarks on Busemann equation

• Prof. Piero Salinari
  Solar Energy Prospects

• Dott. Riccardo Zanella
  Optimization approaches for image reconstruction on multiprocessor systems

• Dott. Silvia Bonettini
  Block coordinate gradient projection approaches for Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

• Dott. Ernesto De Vito
  Spectral Methods for Learning a Set

A challenge

On the left, you find a blurred (shaken) picture taken during the workshop. Do anybody try to deconvolve it?
A full version of it can be dowloaded by clicking on the thumbnail.
Hint: follow the Sherlock Holmes' advice

Organizing commitee

• Alessandro Verri DISI - Università di Genova

• Patrizia Boccacci DISI - Università di Genova

• Christine De Mol Université Libre de Bruxelles