Meeting on Applied Mathematics
and
Calculus of Variations

Rome June 9-11, 2008

Dipartimento di Matematica "G. Castelnuovo", Aula Picone


Monday 9
10:00 - 10:45 Sylvia Serfaty: From the Ginzburg-Landau energy to vortex-lattice problems via Gamma-convergence

11:00 - 11:30 coffee break
11:30 - 12:15 Radu Ignat: A Gamma-convergence result for Néel walls in micromagnetics

12:30 - 13:30 Marcello Ponsiglione: Ginzburg-Landau vortices and dislocations: analogies and differences
16:00 - 16:45 Adriano Pisante: Symmetry and stability of entire local minimizers for the 3d Ginzburg-Landau functional
Tuesday 10
10:00 - 10:45 Roberto AlicandroA variational analysis of the XY spin model
11:00 - 11:30 coffee break
11:30 - 12:15 Caterina Zeppieri: A rigorous coarse graining for two strain-alignment-coupled systems
14:30 - 15:15 Emanuele Spadaro: Nonuniqueness for minimizers of strictly polyconvex functionals
15:30 - 16:15 Anja Schloemerkemper: Surface energies for nonconvex discrete systems with prescribed slope at the boundary
Wednesday 11
  9:45 - 10:30 Mariapia Palombaro: Diffractive behavior of the wave equation in periodic media
10:45 - 11:15 coffee break
11:15 - 12:00 Peter Hornung: W2,2 isometric immersions and Kirchhoff's plate theory

14:00 - 14:45 Antonio Capella Kort: A rigidity result for a perturbation of the geometrically linear three-well problem
15:00 - 15:45 Sergio Conti: A sharp-interface limit for the singularly perturbed Eikonal functional