Luminita Aura VESE
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics, UCLA

Office:  MS 7620-D Mathematical  Sciences Building
Phone:  (310) 825-4201
Fax:       (310) 206-2679 or (310) 206-6673
E-mail:   lvese@math.ucla.edu
Address: University of California, Los Angeles
                   Department of Mathematics
                   405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555

  • TEACHING

  • MATHEMATICS COMPETITIONS FOR UNDERGRADUATES
    PUTNAM
    MCM/ICM
    Previous REU projects

  • Curriculum Vitae (updated July 2007)

  • PhD students
    Yunho Kim
    Tungyou Lin
    Pascal Getreuer

  • Visiting students: Erkut Erdem (visiting from Turkey, Fall 2007), Vincent Duval (visiting from France, Summer 2007-Winter 2008)

  • Former PhD students
    Triet M. Le (graduated in June 2006, now postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, Department of Mathematics)
    Linh H. Lieu (graduated in June 2006, now postdoctoral fellow at UC Davis, Department of Mathematics)
    Ginmo Chung (graduated in June 2007, now Instructor at UCLA - Summer 2007, and Postdoctoral Fellow in Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University, Japan, 2007-2008).

  • Other students mentored: Nick Tanushev, Chris Elion, Sol Eun.

  • Research Interests: Calculus of Variations, Partial Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis, Image Analysis, Curve Evolution, Computer Vision, Free Boundary Problems.
    Publications
    Numerical Results on Image Segmentation by a Multi-Phase Level Set Approach
    Talk at UCLA: Active Contours & Mumford-Shah by Level Sets, October 12 1999

  • Editorial activities
    Inverse Problems and Imaging Journal
    Communications in Mathematical Sciences
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

  • Related Links
    Image Processing Research Group, UCLA Mathematics Department
    UCLA Collective on Vision and Image Sciences
    Center for Computational Biology
    Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA
    IPAM Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS), UCLA, A Program for Undergraduates
    SIAM Imaging Sciences Activity Group
    UCLA SIAM Student Chapter
    Minisymposium on Nonlinear PDE and Image Processing (co-organized with A. Bertozzi), SIAM Imaging Science Conf., March 4-6, 2002, Boston.
    2nd Southern California Applied Mathematics Symposium (SoCAMS-II), May 4, 2002