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Mathematicians have helped art historians and art conservators reconstruct the famous Mantegna frescos, shattered into thousands of fragments by WWII bombing. Algorithms have helped to identify “roll mates” — paintings whose canvases were cut from the same bolt — to remove virtual artifacts in preparation for a restoration campaign, and to reveal paintings hidden under visible works of art. This lecture will describe some of the mathematics that make these procedures possible.
Ingrid Daubechies is the James B. Duke professor of mathematics and electrical and computer engineering at Duke University. A MacArthur Fellow and member of the National Academy of Sciences, she is the first woman to be president of the International Mathematics Union. Ingrid earned a doctorate in theoretical physics at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and is well known for her contributions to digital signal processing. Her work on wavelets is fundamental to JPEG2000 image compression. Ingrid has made major contributions in time-frequency analysis and inverse problems in a wide range of settings, including fMRI, geophysics, paleontology, and the history and conservation of art.
You can find more information about speaker Ingrid Daubechies at https://math.duke.edu/people/ingrid-daubechies