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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)
News
- 8 Feb 2026: ČVUT Starting Grant 2026
Open Positions
- Two-year postdoctoral position in mathematical modelling of retinal pathophysiology (deadline: 10 Feb 2026)
- RTT Position at Castelnuovo (Sapienza, University of Rome) (deadline: 12 Feb 2026)
- PhD Position in Math/Machine Learning. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (deadline: 14 Feb 2026)
- Two postdoctoral positions in analysis (two years, Lisbon, Portugal) (deadline: 14 Feb 2026)
- PhD Position at University Carlos III of Madrid (deadline: 19 Feb 2026)
- PhD position in Geometric Analysis, University of Vienna (deadline: 28 Feb 2026)
- Postdoc Position in Analysis at UCLouvain, Belgium (deadline: 28 Feb 2026)
- PhD Position in Stochastic Analysis at IMPRS Leipzig (deadline: 15 Mar 2026)
- ERC Postdoc position at Bocconi University, Milan (deadline: 15 Mar 2026)
- PhD Position in Optimization and Optimal Transport, University of Twente (deadline: 25 Mar 2026)
- Call expressions of interest for Professor in Mathematics at Università di Padova (deadline: 30 Apr 2026)
Forthcoming Seminars
- 23 Feb 2026: M. C. Lee: Quantitative Ricci Flow smoothing on manifolds and applications
Forthcoming Events
- 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
- 16 - 17 Mar 2026: Optimal Transport in GMT - Geometric Measure Theory in OT Padova, IT
- 16 - 20 Mar 2026: Riemann 200: Mathematics and Physics Leibniz Universität Hannover
- 16 - 18 Mar 2026: Optimal Transport and Noise: OT meets (S)PDEs
- 23 - 27 Mar 2026: The Laplacian: Spectral Theory, Geometry and Stochastics in Action TU Chemnitz, Germany
- 24 - 27 Mar 2026: Geometric measure theory and Metric geometry University of Warwick, Zeeman Building
- 30 Mar - 2 Apr 2026: 77th British Mathematical Colloquium Cardiff University
- 30 Mar - 2 Apr 2026: Spring School on Weak Optimal Transport, Wasserstein Barycenters and Applications Université de Toulon (France)
- 20 - 23 Apr 2026: Valentia Geometrica 2026: a workshop on Geometric Analysis Universitat de València
- 23 - 24 Apr 2026: EYAWKAKSAD -- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Keller-Segel and Aggregation-Diffusion
- 27 Apr - 1 May 2026: All Codimensions Mean Curvature Flow and Minimal Surfaces University of Copenhagen
- 18 - 22 May 2026: (Ir)Regularity @Parma I Parma
- 25 - 29 May 2026: Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning - MFML2026 Vason, Monte Bondone (Trento)
- 26 - 29 May 2026: Perspectives in Applied Mathematics -- A conference in honor of Felix Otto’s 60th birthday University of Bonn
- 1 Jun - 5 Jul 2026: Simons Semester in Geometric Analysis Warsaw & Będlewo, Poland
- 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
- 8 - 12 Jun 2026: School/workshop "Bifurcations in Differential Equations" Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano
- 8 - 12 Jun 2026: INdAM Meeting - Cortona 2026: Calculus of Variations and Applications to the Real World Cortona, Palazzone SNS
- 15 - 19 Jun 2026: 14th School on Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces Hotel Montana - Trento
- 16 - 19 Jun 2026: Turbulent Days Imperial College London
- 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)
- 22 - 26 Jun 2026: ESI Graduate School on Analysis and Applications Erwin Schrödinger Institute (ESI), Vienna
- 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
- 29 Jun - 3 Jul 2026: Geometric measure theory: unraveling the structure of singularities Trento
- 6 - 10 Jul 2026: Master Class "Scalar Curvature, Potential Theory and Notions of Masses"
- 13 - 17 Jul 2026: XXII Escola de Geometria Diferencial
- 13 - 17 Jul 2026: Summer School on PDEs and Randomness Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
- 13 - 17 Jul 2026: New trends in elliptic PDEs Będlewo
- 14 - 17 Jul 2026: New Challenges in Calculus of Variations Centro di ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi
- 23 Aug - 4 Sep 2026: XI Partial Differential Equations, Optimal Design and Numerics Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual
- 8 - 10 Sep 2026: Young Researchers Meeting on PDEs III Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca
- 10 - 12 Sep 2026: Seventh Workshop on Thin Structures
- 18 - 20 Sep 2026: 17th Panhellenic Geometry Conference University of Patras
- 30 Sep - 2 Oct 2026: Shapes, Materials and Regularity: Lecce Encounters In Calculus Of Variations - SMR:LEICOV Lecce, Università del Salento
Recently Added Papers
- M. Bayrami - M. Fotouhi - P. Vosooqnejad (preprint)
Non-minimizing Axially Symmetric Cavity Flow (2025) - M. Bayrami - R. Seyyedali - M. Talebi (preprint)
Boundary Estimates for the Monge-Ampère Equation in the Polygons with Guillemin Boundary Conditions (2025) - D. Corona - S. Nardulli - R. Oliver-Bonafoux - G. Orlandi (Preprint)
Multiplicity of Solutions for Gross-Pitaevskii Equations on Riemannian manifolds (2025) - G. Siclari - B. Velichkov (preprint)
On the blow-up of the vectorial Bernoulli free boundary problem (2026) - N. Cangiotti - I. Gallo - D. Spitzkopf (preprint)
Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with magnetic potential on metric graphs (2026) - A. Kroshnin - E. Stepanov (Preprint)
Tropical optimal transportation and large deviations principle (2026) - E. Micalizio - M. Morandotti - H. Shum - M. Zoppello (Preprint)
Purcell swimmer near a wall (2026) - J. Jackson - A. R. Mészáros (Preprint)
Unconditional well-posedness of the master equation for monotone mean field games of controls (2026) - K. Lin - F. Santambrogio (preprint)
Existence of a solution of the TV Wasserstein gradient flow (2026) - M. Bonafini - V. P. C. Le - R. Molinarolo (preprint)
On fractional semilinear wave equations in non-cylindrical domains (2026) - G. Canevari - F. L. Dipasquale - B. Stroffolini (preprint)
The formation of gradient-driven singular structures of codimension one and two in two-dimensions: The case study of ferronematics (2025) - L. Ambrosio - G. Somma - S. Verzellesi - D. Vittone (Preprint)
Renormalization of contact vector fields with horizontal Sobolev regularity in Heisenberg groups (2026) - A. Kubin - T. Laux - A. Marveggio (preprint)
The Verigin problem with phase transition as a Wasserstein flow (2026) - G. Dal Maso - D. Donati (Submitted Paper)
$Γ$-convergence and homogenisation for free discontinuity functionals with linear growth in the space of functions with bounded deformation (2026) - G. Bellettini - R. Marziani - R. Scala (Preprint)
$\Gamma$-convergence of free discontinuity problems for circle-valued maps in the linear regime (2026) - B. Firester - R. Tsiamis - Y. Wang (preprint)
Area-minimizing capillary cones (2026) - B. Firester - R. Tsiamis - Y. Wang (preprint)
Stability inequalities for one-phase cones (2026) - Tristan C. Collins - B. Firester - F. Tong (preprint)
Homogeneous optimal transport maps between oblique cones (2025) - Tristan C. Collins - B. Firester (preprint)
On a general class of free boundary Monge-Ampère equations (2025) - T. Caillet - F. Coudreuse (preprint)
Generalized Logarithmic Sobolev Inequality by the JKO Scheme (2026)
Recently Modified Papers
- G. Catino - P. Mastrolia - D. D. Monticelli (Accepted Paper: J. Math. Pures Appl.)
Uniqueness of critical metrics for a quadratic curvature functional (2026) - V. Crismale - L. De Luca - R. Scala (Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations)
Approximation of topological singularities through free discontinuity functionals: the critical and super-critical regimes (2026) - A. Chambolle - V. Crismale (J. Funct. Anal.)
A characterization of Generalized functions of Bounded Deformation (2026) - E. Ficola - T. Schmidt (Adv. Calc. Var.)
Existence theory for linear-growth variational integrals with signed measure data (2026) - S. Dweik (Preprint)
Least gradient problem with nonhomogeneous term (2025) - M. Cicalese - D. Reggiani - F. Solombrino (Accepted Paper: Interfaces and Free Boundaries)
From discrete to continuum in the helical XY-model: emergence of chirality transitions in the $S^1$ to $S^2$ limit (2026) - A. Corbisiero - C. Leone - C. Mantegazza (Accepted Paper: Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei - Rend. Lincei Mat. Appl.)
Quasiconvexity in the Riemannian Setting (2026) - A. Goffi (Accepted Paper: Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations)
Rate of convergence of the vanishing viscosity method for Hamilton-Jacobi equations with Neumann boundary conditions (2025) - N. Drago - S. Mazzucchi - A. Pinamonti (Accepted Paper: Journal of Differential Equations)
Chernoff solutions of the heat and the Schrödinger equation in the Heisenberg group (2025) - S. Dweik - A. Sabra (Accepted Paper: ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations)
Fractional infinity Laplacian with obstacle (2025) - J. Duran Lamiel (preprint)
A survey on the resolvent convergence (2025) - J. Duran Lamiel (Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications)
The $\overline\partial$-Robin Laplacian (2025) - F. Essebei - A. Pinamonti - S. Verzellesi (Adv. Calc. Var.)
Integral representation of local functionals depending on vector fields (2023) - F. Essebei - S. Verzellesi (Nonlinear Anal.)
$\Gamma$-Compactness of Some Classes of Integral Functionals depending on Vector Fields (2023) - A. Pinamonti - S. Verzellesi - C. Wang (Bull. Lond. Math. Soc.)
The Aronsson Equation for Absolute Minimizers of Supremal Functionals in Carnot-Carathéodory Spaces (2023) - F. Essebei - G. Giovannardi - S. Verzellesi (NoDEA Nonlinear Differential Equations Appl.)
Monge solutions for discontinuous Hamilton-Jacobi equations in Carnot groups (2024) - G. Giovannardi - A. Pinamonti - J. Pozuelo - S. Verzellesi (Adv. Math.)
The prescribed mean curvature equation for $t$-graphs in the Sub-Finsler Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^n$ (2024) - L. Capogna - G. Giovannardi - A. Pinamonti - S. Verzellesi (Math. Ann.)
The asymptotic $p$-Poisson equation as $p \to \infty$ in Carnot-Carathéodory spaces (2024) - J. Pozuelo - S. Verzellesi (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.)
Existence and uniqueness of t-graphs of prescribed mean curvature in Heisenberg groups (2025) - A. Pinamonti - G. Stefani - S. Verzellesi (Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5))
Lipschitz approximation of almost $\mathbb G$-perimeter minimizing boundaries in plentiful groups (2025) - A. Pinamonti - S. Verzellesi (J. Geom. Anal.)
A characterization of horizontally totally geodesic hypersurfaces in Heisenberg groups (2025) - S. Verzellesi (Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations)
Variational properties of local functionals driven by arbitrary anisotropies (2025) - R. Indergand - D. Kochmann - A. Ruland - A. Tribuzio - C. Zillinger (Accepted Paper: Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci.)
On a $T_3$-Structure in Geometrically Linearized Elasticity: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis and Numerical Simulations (2026) - M. Carducci - G. Tortone (Accepted Paper: Math. Ann.)
Smoothness and stability in the Alt-Phillips problem (2025) - M. Carducci (Calc. Var. PDE)
Epiperimetric inequalities in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian (2023) - S. Brendle - R. Tsiamis (preprint)
Eigenvalue estimates on shrinkers (2024) - B. Firester - R. Tsiamis (Journal of Geometric Analysis)
Cohomogeneity two Ricci solitons with sub-Euclidean volume (2024) - E. Ficola - T. Schmidt (J. Funct. Anal.)
Lower semicontinuity and existence results for anisotropic TV functionals with signed measure data (2026) - S. Kholmatov - P. Piovano (Submitted Paper: Nonlinear Analysis)
Existence of minimizers for the SDRI model in $\mathbb{R}^n$: Wetting and dewetting regimes with mismatch strain (2023) - M. V. Fiorini (Degree Thesis)
Il Teorema di Compattezza Concentrata ed Esistenza di Cluster Isoperimetrici (2025) - G. Bertazzoni - E. Davoli - S. Riccò - E. Zappale (Submitted Paper)
Functions of bounded Musielak-Orlicz-type deformation and anisotropic Total Generalized Variation for image-denoising problems (2025)