Meeting on Applied Mathematics
and
Calculus of Variations

Rome September 4 - 7, 2012

Dipartimento di Matematica "G. Castelnuovo", Aula Picone

Tuesday 4
14.00 - 14.30 Registration
14.30 - 15.15 Jean Van Schaftingen: Strong density for higher order Sobolev spaces into compact manifolds
15.15 - 15.45 coffee break
15.45 - 16.30 Guido De Philippis: Existence of distributional solutions to the semigeostrophic equations
16.45 - 17.30 Dorian Goldman: The Γ-limit of the Ohta-Kawasaki energy: Droplet density and derivation of the renormalized energy
Wednesday 5
10.00 - 10.45 Vincent Millot: Small energy regularity for a fractional Ginzburg-Landau system
11:00 - 11:30 coffee break
11.30 - 12.15
Mircea Petrache: Lp vector fields with topological defects: geometric, variational and combinatorial aspects
12.30 - 13.15 Caterina Zeppieri: Gradient theories for plasticity as the Γ-limit of a nonlinear dislocation energy

lunch

14.30 - 15.15 Duvan Henao: Delamination and fracture of thin films
15.30 - 16.15 Lucia ScardiaAsymptotic behaviour of a pile-up of infinite walls of edge dislocations
Thursday 6
10.00 - 10.45 Carlos Mora Corral: Quasistatic evolution of cavities in nonlinear elasticity
11:00 - 11:30 coffee break
11.30 - 12.15
Virginia Agostiniani: Variational methods for nematic elastomers
12.30 - 13.15 Francesco Solombrino: Quasistatic evolution in perfect plasticity for generalized multiphase materials
Friday 7  
10.30 - 11.15 
Emanuele SpadaroThe regularity theory for area-minimizing currents in higher codimension, Part 1
11.30 - 12.15  Camillo De Lellis: The regularity theory for area-minimizing currents in higher codimension, Part 2

Goodbye lunch