Researcher in Analysis, Department of Mathematics Guido Castelnuovo Sapienza, Università di Roma P.le Aldo Moro, 2 - 00185 Rome - Italy ponsigliATmat.uniroma1.it Born in Naples (Italy) on March 13, 1976. Education Degree in Mathematics 110/110 cum laude, on July 13, 2000 at La Sapienza, University of Rome. Degree thesis: Materiali compositi non lineari: stime e loro ottimalità. (Nonlinear com- posites: bounds and their optimality). Supervisors: Prof. Adriana Garroni, Prof. Vincenzo Nesi. Ph.D. in Mathematics in October 2004, in the sector Functional Analysis and Application, Applied Mathematic of S.I.S.S.A. in Trieste (Italy). Advisor: Prof. Gianni Dal Maso. Ph.D thesis: Stability of Neumann problems and applications to the variational theory of crack propagation. Positions Since October 1, 2004 till September 30, 2006, postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences of Leipzig (Germany). Since October 1, 2006 till November 13, 2008, postdoc at the Department of Mathematics Istituto Guido Castelnuovo of La Sapienza University of Rome. Since November 14, 2008, Researcher at the Department of Mathematics Istituto Guido Castelnuovo of La Sapienza University of Rome. Visiting positions Since February 15 till August 15, 2004, visiting the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, University 6 of Paris Pierre e Marie Curie. Since May 30 till June 10, 2005, visiting the Centre de Matématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique of Paris. Since June 11 till June 29, 2007, visiting the Centre de Matématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique of Paris. Since September 1 till December 31 2008, visiting the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics (HIM) of Bonn. Since April 8 till April 21, 2010, visiting the Centre de Matématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique of Paris. Research interests Calculus of variations, geometric measure theory, applied mathematics, material science, fracture mechanics, dislocations in crystals, variational models in image processes and phase transitions. My research is focused on variational models in elasticity, in particular in fracture mechanics and discrete dislocations models in plasticity. Teaching -2007 PhD course at the university of Rome Tor Vergata, in collaboration with Prof. Adriana Garroni. Title of the course: Theory of dislocations. -2009-10 Vectorial calculus, Department of Physics, Sapienza Universita’ di Roma. -2010 Course of excellence in collaboration with Elisabetta Carlini, Formulation and numerical approximation of variational problems, Department of Mathematics, Sapienza, Università di Roma. -2011-12 Analysis 2, Department of Mathematics, Sapienza Università di Roma. -2012 PhD course at Sapienza: Modelli variazionali per singolarita’ topologiche nella scienza dei materiali. -2012 School at Parma: Variational analysis of Ginzburg-Landau vortices and dislocations in two dimensions. During ``Topics in Calculus of Variations and Applications’’. Selected recent seminars • Elastic energy stored in a crystal induced by screw dislocations: from discrete to continuous. During Sixth GAMM Seminar on Microstructures, Berlin (Germany), January 12-13, 2007. • Elastic energy stored in a crystal induced by screw dislocations. During Analysis and Numerics for Rate-Independent Processes, Oberwolfach (January), February 26 - March 2, 2007. • A variational model for plasticity via homogenization of straight dislocations. During Mathematical models for dislocations, Rome (Italy), March 5, 2007. • A macroscopic model of plasticity derived homogenizing dislocation. During XVIII Convegno Nazionale di Calcolo delle Variazioni, Levico Terme (Italy), February 10-15, 2008. • A strain gradient model for plasticity derived homogenizing dislocations. University of Bonn, May 19, 2008. • A strain gradient model for plasticity derived homogenizing dislocations. Max Planck Institute of Leipzig, May 22, 2008. • A variational model for plasticity via homogenization of straight dislocations. During Singularities in nonlinear evolution phenomena and applications, Pisa, May 26-29, 2008. • Ginzburg Landau vortices and dislocations: analogies and differences. During Meeting in Applied Mathematics and Calculus of Variations, Roma, June 9-11, 2008. • Variational equivalence between Ginzburg Landau energies and screw dislocations. During Trent’anni di Analisi Matematica alla SISSA: il contributo degli ex allievi, Trieste, November 24-27, 2008. • Classical and new variational models for dislocations. Trieste (SISSA), June 17, 2009. • Transizioni di fase e superfici minime nello spazio iperbolico. During XVIII Convegno Nazionale di Calcolo delle Variazioni, Levico Terme, February 10-15, 2010. • Modelli variazionali in matematica applicata. During Analisi matematica al Castelnuovo, Rome, February 20-21, 2011. • A Ginzburg-Landau approach to dislocations. During Ginzburg-Landau equations, Dislocations and Homogenization, Ile de Ré (France), May 23-27, 2011. Organization of events • Co-organizer (with M. Barchiesi, S.-H. Kang, T.M. Le, M. Morini, L.) of Junior Trimester Program on Analysis: Calculus of Variation and Image Processing, Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics (HIM), Bonn, (09/08 - 12/08). short term visitors: A. Chambolle, R. March, M. Roger, H.-M. Zhou. Co-organizer (with A. Garroni, A. Malusa, A. Pisante) of Meeting on Applied Mathematics and Calculus of Variations, Rome, June 10-12, 2010. Co-organizer (with R. Alicandro, A. Garroni, A. Pisante) of Meeting on Applied Mathematics and Calculus of Variations, Rome, September 2012. Funding Coordinator of the following financed grants. 2009 Grant from the University of Rome Sapienza. Title of the project: Problemi e metodi variazionali in matematica applicata. Members of the group: Micol Amar, Nadia Ansini, Adriana Garroni, Annalisa Malusa, Adriano Pisante. 2010 Grant from the University of Rome Sapienza. Title of the project: Singolarità topologiche e transizioni di fase: modelli variazionali per energie concentrate in matematica applicata. Members of the group: Nadia Ansini, Lorenzo bertini, Adriana Garroni, Adriano Pisante. 2011 Grant from Gnampa. Title of the project: Modelli variazionali multiscala in elasticità e plasticità. Members of the group: Maria Giovanna Mora, Elisa Davoli, Alessandro Giacomini, Riccarda Rossi, Mariapia Palombaro, Massimiliano Morini. Referee activity Referee for the following journals: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, ZAMM Z. Angew. Math. Mech., Network and Heterogenous Media, Indiana University Mathematics Journal, Calc. Var., Proc. R. Soc. A., Discr. Cont. Dyn. Syst.

Researcher in Analysis,

Department of Mathematics Guido Castelnuovo

Sapienza, Università di Roma

P.le Aldo Moro, 2 - 00185 Rome - Italy

ponsigliATmat.uniroma1.it

Born in Naples (Italy) on March 13, 1976.

Education

Degree in Mathematics 110/110 cum laude, on July 13, 2000 at La Sapienza, University of Rome.

Degree thesis: Materiali compositi non lineari: stime e loro ottimalità. (Nonlinear com- posites: bounds and their optimality). Supervisors: Prof. Adriana Garroni, Prof. Vincenzo Nesi.

Ph.D. in Mathematics in October 2004, in the sector Functional Analysis and Application, Applied Mathematic of S.I.S.S.A. in Trieste (Italy). Advisor: Prof. Gianni Dal Maso.

Ph.D thesis: Stability of Neumann problems and applications to the variational theory of crack propagation.

Positions

Since October 1, 2004 till September 30, 2006, postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences of Leipzig (Germany).

Since October 1, 2006 till November 13, 2008, postdoc at the Department of Mathematics Istituto Guido Castelnuovo of La Sapienza University of Rome.

Since November 14, 2008, Researcher at the Department of Mathematics Istituto Guido Castelnuovo of La Sapienza University of Rome.

Visiting positions

Since February 15 till August 15, 2004, visiting the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, University 6 of Paris Pierre e Marie Curie.

Since May 30 till June 10, 2005, visiting the Centre de Matématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique of Paris.

Since June 11 till June 29, 2007, visiting the Centre de Matématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique of Paris.

Since September 1 till December 31 2008, visiting the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics (HIM) of Bonn.

Since April 8 till April 21, 2010, visiting the Centre de Matématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique of Paris.

Research interests

Calculus of variations, geometric measure theory, applied mathematics, material science, fracture mechanics, dislocations in crystals, variational models in image processes and phase transitions.

My research is focused on variational models in elasticity, in particular in fracture mechanics and discrete dislocations models in plasticity.

Teaching

-2007 PhD course at the university of Rome Tor Vergata, in collaboration with Prof. Adriana Garroni. Title of the course: Theory of dislocations.

-2009-10 Vectorial calculus, Department of Physics, Sapienza Universita’ di Roma.

-2010 Course of excellence in collaboration with Elisabetta Carlini, Formulation and numerical approximation of variational problems, Department of Mathematics, Sapienza, Università di Roma.

-2011-12 Analysis 2, Department of Mathematics, Sapienza Università di Roma.

-2012 PhD course at Sapienza: Modelli variazionali per singolarita’ topologiche nella scienza dei materiali.

-2012 School at Parma: Variational analysis of Ginzburg-Landau vortices and dislocations in two dimensions.

During ``Topics in Calculus of Variations and Applications’’.

Selected recent seminars

• Elastic energy stored in a crystal induced by screw dislocations: from discrete to continuous. During Sixth GAMM Seminar on Microstructures, Berlin (Germany), January 12-13, 2007.

• Elastic energy stored in a crystal induced by screw dislocations. During Analysis and Numerics for Rate-Independent Processes, Oberwolfach (January), February 26 - March 2, 2007.

• A variational model for plasticity via homogenization of straight dislocations. During Mathematical models for dislocations, Rome (Italy), March 5, 2007.

• A macroscopic model of plasticity derived homogenizing dislocation. During XVIII Convegno Nazionale di Calcolo delle Variazioni, Levico Terme (Italy), February 10-15, 2008.

• A strain gradient model for plasticity derived homogenizing dislocations. University of Bonn, May 19, 2008.

• A strain gradient model for plasticity derived homogenizing dislocations. Max Planck Institute of Leipzig, May 22, 2008.

• A variational model for plasticity via homogenization of straight dislocations. During Singularities in nonlinear evolution phenomena and applications, Pisa, May 26-29, 2008.

• Ginzburg Landau vortices and dislocations: analogies and differences. During Meeting in Applied Mathematics and Calculus of Variations, Roma, June 9-11, 2008.

• Variational equivalence between Ginzburg Landau energies and screw dislocations. During Trent’anni di Analisi Matematica alla SISSA: il contributo degli ex allievi, Trieste, November 24-27, 2008.

• Classical and new variational models for dislocations. Trieste (SISSA), June 17, 2009.

• Transizioni di fase e superfici minime nello spazio iperbolico. During XVIII Convegno Nazionale di Calcolo delle Variazioni, Levico Terme, February 10-15, 2010.

• Modelli variazionali in matematica applicata. During Analisi matematica al Castelnuovo, Rome, February 20-21, 2011.

• A Ginzburg-Landau approach to dislocations. During Ginzburg-Landau equations, Dislocations and Homogenization, Ile de Ré (France), May 23-27, 2011.

Organization of events

• Co-organizer (with M. Barchiesi, S.-H. Kang, T.M. Le, M. Morini, L.) of Junior Trimester Program on Analysis: Calculus of Variation and Image Processing, Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics (HIM), Bonn, (09/08 - 12/08). short term visitors: A. Chambolle, R. March, M. Roger, H.-M. Zhou.

•Co-organizer (with A. Garroni, A. Malusa, A. Pisante) of Meeting on Applied Mathematics and Calculus of Variations, Rome, June 10-12, 2010.
•Co-organizer (with R. Alicandro, A. Garroni, A. Pisante) of Meeting on Applied Mathematics and Calculus of Variations, Rome, September 2012.

Funding

Coordinator of the following financed grants.

2009 Grant from the University of Rome Sapienza. Title of the project: Problemi e metodi variazionali in matematica applicata. Members of the group: Micol Amar, Nadia Ansini, Adriana Garroni, Annalisa Malusa, Adriano Pisante.

2010 Grant from the University of Rome Sapienza. Title of the project: Singolarità topologiche e transizioni di fase: modelli variazionali per energie concentrate in matematica applicata. Members of the group: Nadia Ansini, Lorenzo bertini, Adriana Garroni, Adriano Pisante.

2011 Grant from Gnampa. Title of the project: Modelli variazionali multiscala in elasticità e plasticità. Members of the group: Maria Giovanna Mora, Elisa Davoli, Alessandro Giacomini, Riccarda Rossi, Mariapia Palombaro, Massimiliano Morini.

Referee activity

Referee for the following journals: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, ZAMM Z. Angew. Math. Mech., Network and Heterogenous Media, Indiana University Mathematics Journal, Calc. Var., Proc. R. Soc. A., Discr. Cont. Dyn. Syst.

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