## Climate patterns derived from ocean wave spectra

Abstract: The fact that ocean surface waves are an integrated effect of meteorological activity has the interesting consequence that the memory of the wave systems is larger than that of the wind and storms that generated them. At each single point the related information is stored as its wave spectrum, a matrix containing the energy distribution of wave systems with different origins in space and time. We describe the concept of spectral partitioning and the technique used to obtain spectral statistics, whose outcome we associate with the physical reality. Using long series of spectral data we derive information of the, possibly very far, generation zones climatologically connected at a confluent point. Working on the eastern equatorial Pacific we focus on the prominent effects of El Niño events, for which interactions of mesoscale phenomena are revealed from the analysis of the local situation.

## Optimal Control of Static Elastoplasticity in Primal Formulation

Abstract: An optimal control problem of static plasticity with linear kinematic hardening and von Mises yield condition is studied. The problem is treated in its primal formulation, where the state system is a variational inequality of the second kind. First-order necessary optimality conditions are obtained by means of an approximation by a family of control problems with state system regularized by Huber-type smoothing, and a subsequent limit analysis. The equivalence of the optimality conditions with the C-stationarity system for the equivalent dual formulation of the problem is proved. Numerical experiments are presented, which demonstrate the viability of the Huber-type smoothing approach.

## Propagation Speed for Fractional Cooperative Systems with Slowly Decaying Initial Conditions

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to study the time asymptotic propagation for mild solutions to the fractional reaction diffusion cooperative systems when at least one entry of the initial condition decays slower than a power. We state that the solution spreads at least exponentially fast with an exponent depending on the diffusion term and on the smallest index of fractional Laplacians.

## Asymptotic behaviour of solutions to one-dimensional reaction diffusion cooperative systems involving infinitesimal generators

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to study the large-time behaviour of mild solutions to the one-dimensional cooperative systems with anomalous diffusion when at least one entry of the initial condition decays slower than a power. We prove that the solution moves at least exponentially fast as time goes to infinity. Moreover, the exponent of propagation depends on the decay of the initial condition and of the reaction term.

## Balanced Partition of a Graph for Football Team Realignment in Ecuador

Abstract: In the second category of the Ecuadorian football league, a set of football teams must be grouped into $k$ geographical zones according to some regulations, where the total distance of the road trips that all teams must travel to play a Double Round Robin Tournament in each zone is minimized. This problem can be modeled as a $k$-clique partitioning problem with constraints on the sizes and weights of the cliques. An integer programming formulation and a heuristic approach were developed to provide a solution to the problem which has been implemented in the 2015 edition of the aforementioned football championship.

## Bilevel Parameter Learning for Higher-Order Total Variation Regularisation Models

Abstract: We consider a bilevel optimisation approach for parameter learning in higher-order total variation image reconstruction models. Apart from the least squares cost functional, naturally used in bilevel learning, we propose and analyse an alternative cost based on a Huber-regularised TV seminorm. Differentiability properties of the solution operator are verified and a first-order optimality system is derived. Based on the adjoint information, a combined quasi-Newton/semismooth Newton algorithm is proposed for the numerical solution of the bilevel problems. Numerical experiments are carried out to show the suitability of our approach and the improved performance of the new cost functional. Thanks to the bilevel optimisation framework, also a detailed comparison between $TGV^2$ and $ICTV$ is carried out, showing the advantages and shortcomings of both regularisers, depending on the structure of the processed images and their noise level.