G. Milton Wing Lectures: New Approaches to Modeling and Control of Complex Dynamics
Complex phenomena such as animal morphology, human motion, and large fluid systems challenge even our most sophisticated simulation and control techniques. My overarching research goal has been to develop fundamentally new methods to approach such high-dimensional and nonlinear problems. This talk presents my work solving these problems across a wide range of phenomena, including a new model-reduction approach to fluids that is orders-of-magnitude faster than standard simulation methods and enables interactive high-resolution fluid simulation for the first time. Another example is a continuum approach to crowd dynamics which efficiently reproduces empirical aspects of large crowd behavior that would be difficult or impossible to achieve with traditional agent models. The talk will also cover work on several other phenomena including human animation, animal morphology, and protein folding. Such new algorithmic approaches advance not only our ability to simulate and control complex systems but also our understanding of the systems themselves.
Bio: Dr. Treuille, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2008,
is one of the country's leading young computer scientists. Currently on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University,
he holds an NSF CAREER Award, is a panelist for the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and in 2009 was named by MIT Technology Review as one of the Top Innovators Under 35.