Science centres

Centre for Applied Mathematics

Applied mathematics has played a crucial role in the creation of the most popular animated films in the world. Based on the discoveries of mathematicians James Clark and Edwin Catmull, the famous Pixar studio has developed techniques that allow animators to create smooth surfaces from rough polygon meshes. As a result, the characters and environments became more realistic, which soon became the standard for the entire animation industry.

What does the Centre do?

In this Centre, teams of mathematicians are committed to research in various fields of applied mathematics. Our mathematicians work on new concepts in theoretical mathematics in order to further advance electrical engineering and computer science, as well as on research activities in the development of mathematical software and various mathematical methods that allow a better understanding of big data.

The methods developed in our Centre have wide applications. In the automatic proving of some classes of analytical inequalities, they can significantly improve the compression of high-resolution video, speed up accurate language translation processes, increase the probability of the accurate grouping of medical images during diagnosis, improve data privacy protection, and they can be applied in many optimisation processes.

Centre Head

Prof. Dr Branko Malešević

Full Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics

Branko Malešević is a Full Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, where he also obtained his MSc and PhD degrees in mathematics. His research includes the approximation theory and analytic inequalities, automated proof procedures, systems of computer algebra and Gröbner basis, differential fields and pseudoinverses of operators. He is currently the Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics at ETF and the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal “Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics.” He is the author of numerous papers published in journals and chapters in international monographs. He is the founder and head of the largest research group within the BAIG team laboratory http://baig.etf.rs/, which brings together members of the Department of Applied Mathematics, PhD students, professors and associates from other departments of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, as well as from other faculties and universities.

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Ongoing projects

  • Development of automatic inequality provers and general questions related to the application of the theory of analytic inequalities
  • Development of mathematical methods suitable for simulating different types of solar cells

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