SEMINAR IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS, Fall 2018 15/10/2018 The schedule of project presentation 15/10: Arie Levant Introduction. Review of possible projects. Computer aesthetic criterion. 22/10: Arie Levant Automatic pagelayout. Real-time motion capture. Banding effect in large poster printing. 29/10: Arie Levant Advertisement insertion in live-time TV Broadcasting. "Mechanical dog". 05/11: Arie Levant Introduction to control theory. Control under uncertainty conditions. ODE with discontinuous right-hand sides. Sliding modes. 12/11: Arie Levant Homogeneity approach. 2-sliding controllers. Aircraft pitch control. Real-time programming. 19/11: Arie Levant Differentiation problem: restrictions. Real-time robust exact differentiation. Signal processing applications. Control and image-processing applications. 26/11: Arie Levant Mathematical Black-Box Control: High-order sliding modes. Car control. Aircraft control. Practical Relative Degree. Blood glucose control. 03/12: 1. Oria Gruber Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation 2. Shany Shmueli Mathematical model of vaccination 10/12: 1. Adi Shasha Clustering methods 2. Osher Arbib Segmentation in image processing 17/12: 1. Leia Greenberg Encryption methods 2. Wael Mattar Chaos theory 24/12: 1. Brenda Rustein Continued fractions 2. Yael Harpaz Bidirectional reflectance distribution function 31/12: 1. Oded Ovadia Fractal dimensions 2. Hadar Landau Simulated annealing and genetic algorithms in solution of optimization problems 07/01: 1. Yuval Kainan Numerical Multidimensional Integration 2. Benjamin Gutman Multi-dimensional scaling Those who do not deliver a lecture perform a computer simulation project (numerical differentiation). The option is only available if all lecture slots are filled.