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 Alicandro: A 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