Advances in
Applied Mathematics and Learning Approaches for
Cultural Heritage and the Arts

The symposium "Advances in applied mathematics and learning approaches for cultural heritage and the arts" will be held in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) on April 22-24, 2024. The program of the event will include invited and contributed lectures which will provide both introductory discussion to such applications and cutting edge research results, with the aim of both promoting future collaborations and to stimulate interest in the applied mathematics and AI community.

An interdisciplinary subject

Archaeology and cultural heritage preservation are revealing themselves as prolific areas of application of novel applied mathematical models and methods. Since the introduction of seriation by the egyptologist W.M.F. Petrie in 1899 for dating archaeological excavation sites and the pioneering work of D.G. Kendall in the late sixties, more and more applications have arisen: computer vision techniques for reconstructing and analyzing bas-reliefs and prehistoric rock art, digital analysis of ancient frescoes and illuminated manuscripts as well as machine and deep learning for the interpretation of ancient documents and archaeological findings, solution of inverse problems in near-surface geophysical survey for detecting buried remains, just to mention a few. A growing interest towards the use of approaches based on applied mathematics, computer vision and learning in the arts rapidly developed over the last decades. This is certainly not limited to visual arts. For example, sound synthesis and filtering in electronic and contemporary music are based on Fourier analysis.

Purpose of the Symposium

The aim of the symposium is to foster interaction and collaboration between French and Italian researchers working on applied mathematics and artificial intelligence applications for archaeology and arts. Several research groups in both countries are developing mathematical models, algorithms, and software for problems arising in human sciences, in close interaction with humanities researchers and experts.

1. Mathieu Aubry École des Ponts ParisTech (France)
2. Andrea Azzarelli University of Cagliari (Italy)
3. Silvia Biasotti Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche "Enrico Magenes" - CNR (Italy)
4. Alessandro Buccini University of Cagliari (Italy)
5. Lucio Cadeddu Università di Cagliari (Italy)
6. Luca Calatroni CNRS (France)
7. Vanna Lisa Coli University of Cote D'Azur (France)
8. Marco Corneli University of Cote D'Azur (France)
9. Benjamin Coupry IRIT (France)
10. Elisa Crabu University of Cagliari (Italy)
11. Serena Crisci Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (Italy)
12. Rafael Díaz Fuentes University of Cagliari (Italy)
13. Valentina De Simone Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" (Italy)
14. Caterina Fenu Università degli Studi di Cagliari (Italy)
15. Luisa Fermo University of Cagliari (Italy)
16. Samuele Ferri Università degli Studi dell'Insubria (Italy)
17. Gianluca Frasca-Caccia Università degli Studi di Salerno (Italy)
18. Silvia Frassu University of Cagliari (Italy )
19. Antonio Greco Università di Cagliari (Italy)
20. Joaquín Jiménez-Puerto Universitat de València (Spain)
21. Daniela Lera University of Cagliari (Italy)
22. Valerio Loi University of Insubria (Italy)
23. Antonello Meloni University of Cagliari (Italy)
24. Roberto Natalini Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo - CNR (Italy)
25. Wallace Peaslee University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
26. Federica Pes University of Pisa (Italy)
27. Silvia Preda Università degli Studi dell'Insubria (Italy)
28. Yvain Queau University of Caen (France)
29. Marco Ratto Università degli studi dell'Insubria (Italy)
30. Giuseppe Recupero University of Bologna (Italy)
31. Diego Reforgiato University of Cagliari (Italy)
32. Giuseppe Rodriguez University of Cagliari (Italy)
33. Antonio Sanna University of Cagliari (Italy)
34. Matteo Sommacal University of Northumbria (UK)
35. Giuseppa Tanda CeSim - Centro Studi Identità e "Memoria" (Italy)
36. Cornelis van der Mee University of Cagliari (Italy)
37. Giuseppe Viglialoro Università di Cagliari (Italia)
38. Ferdinando Zullo University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Italy)