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Projects
- Quasistatic and Dynamic Evolution Problems in Plasticity and Fracture (Gianni Dal Maso)
- Anisotropic geometric variational problems: existence, regularity and uniqueness (Antonio De Rosa)
- Analytic Techniques for Geometric and Functional Inequalities (Nicola Fusco)
- Geometry of Metric Groups (Enrico Le Donne) > papers
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the JKO Scheme (Filippo Santambrogio)
- Variational approach to the regularity of the free boundaries (Bozhidar Velichkov)
Open Positions
- University Professorship (W3) "Analysis of partial differential equations" (deadline: 31 Oct 2025)
- Doctoral and postdoctoral positions and Young Research Group at Mathematics Münster (deadline: 31 Oct 2025)
- PhD Positions in Probability Theory and Analysis - Aarhus University, Denmark (deadline: 1 Nov 2025)
- Chapman Fellow in Mathematics (deadline: 11 Nov 2025)
- Postdoctoral position in Analysis at the Department of Mathematics “Federigo Enriques” of the University of Milan. (deadline: 13 Nov 2025)
- Researcher Tenure Track (RTT), Geometry, Univ. L'Aquila (deadline: 22 Nov 2025)
- Postdoctoral position in Calculus of Variations at TUM, Munich (deadline: 30 Nov 2025)
- Research Fellowship unde the ERC Project “GENREG – Generic regularity of area minimising hypersurfaces and mean curvature flows” (deadline: 30 Nov 2025)
- Post-doc positions in Geometric Partial Differential Equations, University of Vienna (deadline: 30 Nov 2025)
- 3 postdoctoral positions and 2 PhD positions in Vienna (deadline: 30 Nov 2025)
- 2 postdoctoral positions in GMT - Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (deadline: 16 Dec 2025)
- Analysis of Nonlinear PDE in Fluid Dynamics (deadline: 21 Dec 2025)
- Two postdoctoral positions in Partial Differential Equations at Uppsala University (deadline: 31 Dec 2025)
- Postdoc position in Nancy (deadline: 10 Jan 2026)
- PhD position in Geometric Analysis, University of Vienna (deadline: 28 Feb 2026)
Forthcoming Events
- 27 Oct - 5 Nov 2025: Lectures by Y. Tonegawa in Vienna Vienna
- 3 - 7 Nov 2025: 2nd Atlantic conference in nonlinear PDEs: Harmonic Analysis, Dispersive and Elliptic Equations Lisbon, Portugal
- 5 - 7 Nov 2025: Local and nonlocal methods in geometric analysis Centro di Ricerca Matematica E. De Giorgi
- 5 - 7 Nov 2025: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Salzburg 2025 Salzburg, Austria
- 7 - 7 Nov 2025: Calculus of Variations & Geometric Analysis in Florence
- 27 - 28 Nov 2025: Analytic and geometric methods in PDEs
- 1 - 3 Dec 2025: Junior Math Days 2025 at SISSA SISSA, Trieste
- 5 - 9 Jan 2026: ICMS Winter School: PDE in Geometry and Analysis ICMS in Edinburgh
- 12 - 16 Jan 2026: Calculus of Variations and applications CIRM, Marseille, France
- 19 - 21 Jan 2026: When CalcVar meets Siena Dipartimento di ingegneria dell'informazione e scienze matematiche, Siena
- 26 - 30 Jan 2026: ESI Workshop "Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory & Biological Applications" (MoDiS) Vienna (Austria)
- 27 - 30 Jan 2026: Shape Optimization, Geometric Inequalities and Related Topics - III edition Naples
- 1 - 6 Feb 2026: Winter School in Geometric Measure Theory - Rectifiability vs. Pure Unrectifiability Hangzhou, China
- 2 - 6 Feb 2026: Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI), Cambridge
- 9 - 13 Feb 2026: XXXV Convegno Nazionale di Calcolo delle Variazioni Hotel Mediterraneo, Riccione
- 23 - 27 Feb 2026: Modern Methods in the Calculus of Variations Bonn, Germany
- 25 - 27 Feb 2026: Workshop on Gradient Structures University of Augsburg, Germany
- 9 - 13 Mar 2026: Spring School: Horizons in nonlinear PDEs Ulm
- 9 - 13 Mar 2026: Mathematical Fluid Mechanics and Related Topics on the occasion of Reinhard Farwig's 70th birthday Regensburg
- 20 - 23 Apr 2026: Valentia Geometrica 2026: a workshop on Geometric Analysis Universitat de València
- 26 - 29 May 2026: Perspectives in Applied Mathematics -- A conference in honor of Felix Otto’s 60th birthday University of Bonn
- 1 - 5 Jun 2026: Nonlinear Analysis, Function Spaces and Applications 13 (NAFSA 13) Prague, Czech Republic
- 8 - 12 Jun 2026: Geometric Analysis: Parabolic and Elliptic Methods KTH Stockholm
- 8 - 12 Jun 2026: International geometric analysis conference in Milan II Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
- 15 - 19 Jun 2026: 14th School on Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces Hotel Montana - Trento
- 21 - 27 Jun 2026: Modern Advances in Geometric Analysis - on the occasion of Piotr Hajłasz's 60th birthday Będlewo Conference Center, Będlewo, Poland
- 22 Jun - 3 Jul 2026: European School of Differential Geometry L'Aquila (Italy)
- 23 - 25 Jun 2026: Variational models in Materials Science-IV University of Naples Federico II
- 29 Jun - 3 Jul 2026: Pattern Formation, Energy Landscapes, and Scaling Laws - celebrating Felix Otto as a mentor, collaborator, and mathematician Sorbonne Université, Campus les Cordeliers, Paris
- 6 - 10 Jul 2026: Master Class "Scalar Curvature, Potential Theory and Notions of Masses"
Recently Added Papers
- J. Pozuelo - S. Verzellesi - G. Vianello (Preprint)
Variational properties of the total inverse mean curvature in the plane under boundary constraints (2025) - D. De Gennaro - A. De Rosa (preprint)
Non-polyconvex $Q$-integrands with lower semicontinuous energies (2025) - H. Chan - S. Dipierro - M. Freguglia - M. Inversi - E. Valdinoci (preprint)
$Γ$-convergence for higher order nonlocal phase transitions (2025) - M. Di Marco (preprint)
Intrinsic perimeter, compactness and Poincaré inequality for SBV functions in Carnot-Carathéodory spaces (2025) - D. Cherkashin (Accepted Paper: Journal of Convex Analysis)
On branching points in the Gilbert-Steiner problem (2025) - M. Cicalese - G. Fusco - G. Savaré (preprint)
Crystalline motion of discrete interfaces in the Blume-Emery-Griffiths model (2025) - C. Brizzi (preprint)
On functions with given boundary data and convex constraints on the gradient (2022) - C. Brizzi - G. Friesecke - T. Ried (Nonlinear Analysis)
$p$-Wasserstein barycenters (2025) - C. Brizzi - L. De Pascale - A. Kausamo (preprint)
A regularized transportation cost stemming from entropic approximation (2025) - N. Fusco - V. Julin - M. Morini - A. Pratelli (Preprint)
The isoperimetric inequality for the capillary energy outside convex sets (2025) - F. Morgan - A. Pratelli (preprint)
Existence of isoperimetric regions in $\R^n$ with density (2011) - E. Cinti - A. Pratelli (preprint)
The $ε-ε^β$ property, the boundedness of isoperimetric sets in $\R^N$ with density, and some applications (2012) - A. Chodron de Courcel - C. Elbar (preprint)
On a repulsion model with Coulomb interaction and nonlinear mobility (2025) - S. Carano - R. Moser (preprint)
An $L^\infty$-variational problem involving the Fractional Laplacian (2025) - Matteo Della Rossa - L. Freddi - M. Pinatto (preprint)
A non-parametric Zermelo navigation equation for strictly convex control sets (2025)
Recently Modified Papers
- N. David - A. R. Mészáros - F. Santambrogio (Accepted Paper: J. Éc. polytech. Math.)
Improved convergence rates for the Hele-Shaw limit in the presence of confining potentials (2025) - R. Grande - S. Krömer - M. Kruzik - G. Tomassetti (Accepted Paper)
Homogenization of magnetoelastic materials with rigid magnetic inclusions at small strains (2025) - I. Ftouhi - I. Lucardesi - G. Saracco (Commun. Contemp. Math.)
A reverse isoperimetric inequality for the Cheeger constant under width constraint (2025) - L. De Pascale - L. Nenna (Preprint)
A variational formulation of a Multi-Population Mean Field Games with non-local interactions (2024) - L. Cavallina - K. Funano - A. Henrot - A. Lemenant - I. Lucardesi - S. Sakaguchi (J. Anal. Math.)
Two extremum problems for Neumann eigenvalues (2025) - A. Henrot - I. Lucardesi - G. Philippin (ESAIM: COCV)
On two functionals involving the maximum of the torsion function (2018) - A. Henrot - I. Lucardesi (Journal de l'École polytechnique - Mathématiques)
Body of constant width with minimal area in a given annulus (2021) - A. Henrot - A. Lemenant - I. Lucardesi (Transactions of the American Mathematical Society)
An isoperimetric problem with two distinct solutions (2024) - A. Henrot - I. Lucardesi (Communications in Contemporary Mathematics)
A Blaschke-Lebesgue theorem for the Cheeger constant (2024) - R. Gasteldello - A. Henrot - I. Lucardesi (Journal of Convex Analysis)
About the Blaschke-Santalo diagram of area, perimeter and moment of inertia (2024) - S. Almi - D. Reggiani - F. Solombrino (Accepted Paper: Nonlinear Analysis)
Geometric rigidity for incompatible fields in the multi-well case and an application to strain-gradient plasticity (2025) - D. Cherkashin - F. Petrov (Pure and Applied Functional Analysis)
Branching points in the planar Gilbert--Steiner problem have degree 3 (2025) - D. Cherkashin - Y. Teplitskaya (Serdica Journal of Computing)
An overview of maximal distance minimizers problem (2024) - C. Brizzi - G. Friesecke - T. Ried (Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications)
$h$-Wasserstein barycenters (2026) - N. Fusco - V. Julin - M. Morini - A. Pratelli (preprint)
The isoperimetric inequality for the capillary energy outside convex sets (2025) - G. Fusco (preprint)
Variational analysis of discrete Dirichlet problems in periodically perforated domains (2025) - R. Ognibene (Communications in Partial Differential Equations)
On asymptotics of Robin eigenvalues in the Dirichlet limit (2025) - K. Pankrashkin - F. Sk - M. Vogel (NoDEA Nonlinear Differential Equations Appl.)
Laplacian eigenvalues for large negative Robin parameters on domains with outward peaks (2025) - G. Bevilacqua - C. Lonati - L. Lussardi - A. Marzocchi (Accepted Paper: Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations)
A variational analysis of nematic axisymmetric films: the covariant derivative case (2024)