Rinaldo M. Colombo

Professor

INdAM Unit c/o Department of Information Engineering University of Brescia Via Branze 38 25123 Brescia, Italy Phone: [+] 39 030 371 5460 E-mail: Rinaldo.Colombo (at) UniBs.It URL: rinaldo-colombo.unibs.it/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rinaldo-colombo/

Research

I like to tackle analytical problems related to Hyperbolic Conservation Laws grounded in realistic motivations. By analytical problems I mean: basic well-posedness or stability issues, optimal control problems and games, typically non-cooperative.

In particular, I'm involved in formulating and studying models inspired by biology (epidemics, vaccination strategies) or concerning crowd dynamics (classroom evacuation; lane formation); traffic flow; interactions between individuals and populations (the Pied Piper, dogs and sheep, also without PDEs); supply chains; blood flow; gas dynamics (a piston hit by a shock wave); mixed hyperbolic-parabolic models for predator-prey interactions (hunting); phase transitions and combustion; management of renewable resources; granular matter. I have also worked on the modeling of the spread of Covid-19. If interested, visit this page.

More recently, I have begun investigating the use of partial differential equations to encrypt and decrypt text messages and images. A first result in this direction is available here, and further work is in progress.

Here is a list of my publications. For further information, find me on MathSciNet, Zentralblatt, ORCID, Scopus, WoS.

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