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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
- CONCORSO PUBBLICO, PER TITOLI ED ESAMI, PER L’ASSUNZIONE CON CONTRATTO DI LAVORO A TEMPO PIENO E INDETERMINATO DI UN RICERCATORE III LIVELLO PROFESSIONALE - PRESSO L’ ISTITUTO PER LE APPLICAZIONI DEL CALCOLO "MAURO PICONE" - SEDE ROMA (deadline: 25 Jun 2025)
- RTDA in Mathematical Analysis at Università di Padova (deadline: 25 Jun 2025)
- Assistant Professor (postdoc), non-tenure track (all genders welcome), University of Klagenfurt, Austria (deadline: 25 Jun 2025)
- University assistant predoctoral (all genders welcome), University of Klagenfurt, Austria (deadline: 25 Jun 2025)
- Postdoctoral position in calculus of variations, Charles University, Prague (deadline: 29 Jun 2025)
- Ph.D. positions in Mathematics: Ferrara, Modena-Reggio Emilia, Parma (deadline: 30 Jun 2025)
- PhD Position in Geometric Analysis in Salzburg (deadline: 2 Jul 2025)
- Postdoc and PhD positions in Computational PDEs, Vienna (deadline: 8 Jul 2025)
- CPJ CNRS in Analysis (deadline: 14 Jul 2025)
- RTT tenure-track position at Rome Tor Vergata in Analysis and Probability (deadline: 17 Jul 2025)
- 2x PhD Positions at the University of Pisa (Official Call) (deadline: 18 Jul 2025)
- Tenure-track position in analysis at KTH Stockholm (deadline: 28 Aug 2025)
Forthcoming Seminars
- 25 Jun 2025: X. Zhou: Some monotonicity for $p$-capacitary functions in $3$-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature
Forthcoming Events
- 31 Mar - 4 Jul 2025: Intensive trimester at GSSI on "Particles, Fluids and Patterns: Analytical and Computational Challenges" Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy
- 22 - 27 Jun 2025: Summer School on Geometric Analysis and PDEs Chęciny, Poland
- 23 - 27 Jun 2025: Topics in Geometric Analysis Università di Pisa
- 23 - 27 Jun 2025: Workshop: Novel methods of PDEs and function spaces University of Warsaw
- 23 - 27 Jun 2025: International geometric analysis conference in Milan Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
- 23 - 27 Jun 2025: Sub-Riemannian Geometry and Beyond, IV
- 25 - 27 Jun 2025: Three days in Calculus of Variations TU Wien (Vienna)
- 30 Jun - 4 Jul 2025: Topics in Geometric Measure Theory Università di Pisa
- 30 Jun - 4 Jul 2025: Differential Geometry@L'Aquila 2025 Università dell'Aquila
- 30 Jun - 4 Jul 2025: 21st School on Interactions between Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equations Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) - Barcelona
- 30 Jun - 4 Jul 2025: Regularity aspects of elliptic and parabolic PDE Thessaloniki, Greece
- 30 Jun - 4 Jul 2025: Mini-courses in Mathematical Analysis 2025 Padova, Italy
- 2 - 2 Jul 2025: 4th Meeting of the "UK metric geometry and analysis" network Queen Mary University London
- 7 - 11 Jul 2025: Geometric Methods in Calculus of Variations Centro De Giorgi, Pisa
- 13 - 18 Jul 2025: Warsaw Summer School on Evolutionary PDEs University of Warsaw
- 13 - 26 Jul 2025: Summer school in Geometric Measure Theory Hangzhou, China
- 14 - 18 Jul 2025: PRIN school on Geometry and Gravity SISSA
- 14 - 27 Jul 2025: Festum Pi Chania, Greece
- 21 - 23 Jul 2025: CoScaRa Workshop: Deterministic and Stochastic Advection in Fluid Dynamics Basel, Switzerland
- 21 - 25 Jul 2025: Nonlinear PDEs in Guimarães 2025 Guimarães, Portugal
- 22 - 24 Jul 2025: Workshop on Recent trends in calculus of variations and PDE University of Oldenburg, Germany
- 28 Jul - 1 Aug 2025: Interactions between convex geometry and spectral analysis Montréal
- 28 - 30 Jul 2025: Regensburg GAP Days Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Regensburg
- 26 - 29 Aug 2025: Spectral Theory Workshop Reading, UK
- 31 Aug - 5 Sep 2025: Summer School "Curvature & Applications" Lake Chiemsee, Germany
- 1 - 5 Sep 2025: British Isles Graduate Workshop VI: Minimal surfaces Totland, YHA, Isle of Wight
- 1 - 3 Sep 2025: Three days between Analysis and Geometry in Trento - 4° Edition Trento
- 3 - 5 Sep 2025: Boundary Analysis for Dispersive and Viscous Fluids Pavia
- 3 - 5 Sep 2025: Mind the GAP - Young researchers meeting in Geometric Analysis and PDEs University of Trento
- 8 - 12 Sep 2025: Conference: Frontiers in Calculus of Variations and Applied Analysis TUM
- 8 - 11 Sep 2025: Perspectives in Geometric Analysis Politecnico di Milano
- 9 - 13 Sep 2025: Diffusion in Warsaw 2025
- 9 - 12 Sep 2025: Young Researchers Meeting on PDEs II Università di Milano-Bicocca
- 10 - 12 Sep 2025: New Challenges in Hyperbolic Problems Bernoulli Center, EPFL, Lausanne
- 18 - 19 Sep 2025: Advances in Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Analysis Brescia
- 19 - 19 Sep 2025: Perspectives in the Calculus of Variations - Un incontro in onore di Gianni Dal Maso Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei - Palazzo Corsini - Via della Lungara, 10 - Roma
- 22 - 24 Sep 2025: Analysis of partial differential equations and Calculus of Variations Dresden
- 22 - 26 Sep 2025: Warsaw Analysis Days Event WADE25 University of Warsaw
- 24 - 26 Sep 2025: Hyperbolic Problems in Nürnberg
- 24 - 26 Sep 2025: Cauchy-Riemann Geometry and Subelliptic Theory Matera
- 29 Sep - 1 Oct 2025: Mathematical Analysis of Fluid Flows by Variational Methods Berlin
- 13 - 17 Oct 2025: Workshop "Optimal transport and metric geometry across structures" Bernoulli Center, EPFL, Lausanne
- 14 - 17 Oct 2025: Progress in modeling and analysis for nanomagnetism and related topics Centro di ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi
- 20 - 24 Oct 2025: Morphogenesis and morphing: 200 years after Gauss Centro De Giorgi, Pisa
- 22 - 24 Oct 2025: Variational Analysis of complex systems in Materials Science, Physics and Biology FBK-Polo Umanistico Via Santa Croce, 77 Trento
- 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
- 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
- 27 - 30 Jan 2026: Shape Optimization, Geometric Inequalities and Related Topics Naples
- 9 - 13 Feb 2026: XXXV Convegno Nazionale di Calcolo delle Variazioni Hotel Mediterraneo, Riccione
- 20 - 23 Apr 2026: Valentia Geometrica 2026: a workshop on Geometric Analysis Universitat de València
- 1 - 5 Jun 2026: Nonlinear Analysis, Function Spaces and Applications 13 (NAFSA 13) Prague, Czech Republic
Recently Added Papers
- N. Picenni - M. Gobbino (Preprint)
Symmetry breaking for local minimizers of a free discontinuity problem (2025) - A. Einav - Y. Jiang - A. R. Mészáros (Submitted Paper)
On the equivalence between static and dynamic optimal transport governed by linear control systems (2025) - G. Bellettini - S. Kholmatov - M. Novaga (Preprint)
Crystalline elastic flow of polygonal curves: long time behaviour and convergence to stationary solutions (2025) - L. Esposito - L. Lamberti - G. Pisante (Preprint)
Ahlfors-regularity for minimizers of a multiphase optimal design problem (2025) - G. Catino - D. D. Monticelli - A. Roncoroni (Submitted Paper)
Rigidity of solutions to singular/degenerate semilinear critical equations (2025) - S. Almi - R. Rossi - G. Savaré (Preprint)
The superposition principle for the continuity equation with singular flux (2025) - A. Kubin (Submitted Paper)
On variational scheme modeling the anisotropic surface diffusion with elasticity in the plane (2025) - D. Mucci - A. Saracco (Submitted Paper)
The fundamental theorem of the local theory for non-smooth curves (2025) - D. Mucci (Submitted Paper)
Functions of bounded variation in trace spaces (2025) - S. Baasandorj - S. Di Marino - A. Gerolin (preprint)
$C^{1,α}$-regularity for Schrödinger potentials of Shannon-entropy regularized Optimal Transport (2025) - S. Almi - M. Fornasier - J. Klemenc - A. Scagliotti (preprint)
Balanced quasistatic evolutions of critical points in metric spaces (2025) - G. Buttazzo - R. Ognibene (preprint)
Asymptotics of nonlinear Robin energies (2025) - K. Kroencke - F. Oronzio - A. Pinoy (Preprint)
Green functions and a positive mass theorem for asymptotically hyperbolic $3$-manifolds (2025) - A. Chambolle - D. De Gennaro - M. Morini (preprint)
Elementary discrete diffusion/redistancing schemes for the mean curvature flow (2025)
Recently Modified Papers
- P. J. Graber - A. R. Mészáros (Math. Ann.)
On Some Mean Field Games and Master Equations through the lens of conservation laws (2024) - M. Bansil - A. R. Mészáros - C. Mou (SIAM J. Control Optim.)
Global Well-Posedness of Displacement Monotone Degenerate Mean Field Games Master Equations (2025) - D. M. Ambrose - M. Griffin-Pickering - A. R. Mészáros (J. Lond. Math. Soc. (2))
Kinetic-type Mean Field Games with Non-separable Local Hamiltonians (2025) - G. E. Comi - V. De Cicco - G. Scilla (Preprint)
Beyond $BV$: new pairings and Gauss-Green formulas for measure fields with divergence measure (2023) - R. Alicandro - L. De Luca - M. Palombaro - M. Ponsiglione (Adv. Calc. Var.)
$\Gamma$-convergence analysis of the nonlinear self-energy induced by edge dislocations in semi-discrete and discrete models in two dimensions (2025) - R. Alicandro - M. S. Gelli - C. Leone (Accepted Paper: Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations)
Variational analysis of nonlocal Dirichlet problems in periodically perforated domains (2024) - M. Gobbino - N. Picenni (Accepted Paper: J. Funct. Anal.)
Gamma-liminf estimate for a class of non-local approximations of Sobolev and BV norms (2025) - M. Manfredini - M. Piccinini - S. Polidoro (Accepted Paper: J. Evol. Equations)
The Dirichlet problem for a family of totally degenerate differential operators (2025) - Y. De Castro - V. Duval - R. Petit (Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision)
Towards off-the-grid algorithms for total variation regularized inverse problems (2023) - Y. De Castro - V. Duval - R. Petit (Inverse Problems)
Exact recovery of the support of piecewise constant images via total variation regularization (2024) - M. Novaga - E. Paolini (Annali di Matematica pura e Applicata)
Regularity results for boundaries in ${\mathrm R}^2$ with prescribed anisotropic curvature (2005) - S. Di Marino - E. Naldi - S. Villa (Preprint)
Inexact JKO and proximal-gradient algorithms in Wasserstein spaces (2025) - F. De Pas - S. Dipierro - M. Piccinini - E. Valdinoci (Accepted Paper: Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5))
Heteroclinic connections for fractional Allen-Cahn equations with degenerate potentials (2025) - L. Benatti - C. Mantegazza - F. Oronzio - A. Pluda (Accepted Paper)
A Note on Ricci-pinched three-manifolds (2024) - S. Borza - L. Rizzi (Preprint)
Failure of the measure contraction property via quotients in higher-step sub-Riemannian structures (2025) - D. Donati (Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications NoDEA)
A new space of generalised vector-valued functions of bounded variation (2025) - G. C. Brusca - D. Donati - M. Solci (SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis)
Higher-order singular perturbation models for phase transitions (2025) - A. Pinamonti - S. Verzellesi (Accepted Paper: J. Geom. Anal.)
A characterization of horizontally totally geodesic hypersurfaces in Heisenberg groups (2025) - L. Ganedi - A. Marveggio - K. Stinson (Accepted Paper: Adv. Calc. Var.)
Convergence of a heterogeneous Allen-Cahn equation to weighted mean curvature flow (2024) - G. Akagi - V. Bögelein - A. Marveggio - U. Stefanelli (J. Funct. Anal.)
Weighted Inertia-Dissipation-Energy approach to doubly nonlinear wave equations (2025) - A. Chambolle - D. De Gennaro - M. Morini (Accepted Paper: Analysis & PDE)
Discrete-to-continuous crystalline curvature flows (2024) - F. Bozzola - L. Brasco (Accepted Paper: Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. S)
Variations on the capacitary inradius (2025)