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Erc Projects

• Geometric Measure Theory in non Euclidean spaces (Luigi Ambrosio) > papers
• Quasistatic and Dynamic Evolution Problems in Plasticity and Fracture (Gianni Dal Maso)
• Analytic Techniques for Geometric and Functional Inequalities (Nicola Fusco)
• Vectorial Elliptic, Parabolic and Variational Problems: Singularities and Regularity (Giuseppe Mingione)
• Analysis of Optimal Sets and Optimal Constants: Old Questions and New Results (Aldo Pratelli)
• Mathematics for Shape Memory Technologies in Biomechanics (Ulisse Stefanelli)

Open Positions

• Two Professorships in Pure Mathematics at the University of Basel (deadline: 20 May 2013)
• Research Associate and / or Postdoc positions for Analysis and Modeling, Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Muenster (deadline: 31 May 2013)

Forthcoming Events

• 8 Apr - 30 Jun 2013: Introduction to Optimal Transportation Theory and Applications.
• 27 - 31 May 2013: Geometric methods in PDE’s: Indam Meeting in occasion of the 70th birthday of Ermanno Lanconelli
• 10 - 12 Jun 2013: Calcul des variations et équations différentielles
• 10 - 14 Jun 2013: Mini-courses in Mathematical Analysis 2013
• 17 - 22 Jun 2013: International School on Recent Advances in Partial Differential Equations and Applications
• 17 - 21 Jun 2013: Seventh Summer School in Analysis and Applied Mathematics
• 24 - 26 Jun 2013: ERC Workshop "Variational Views in Mechanics and Materials"
• 1 - 5 Jul 2013: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
• 8 - 12 Jul 2013: Vector-valued Partial Differential Equations and Applications
• 15 Jul - 2 Aug 2013: School and Workshop on "Geometric Measure Theory and Optimal Transport"
• 9 - 13 Sep 2013: ERC School "Geometric Functional Inequalities and Shape Optimization"
• 23 - 27 Sep 2013: New Trends in Shape Optimization
• 30 Sep - 4 Oct 2013: School in Geometric Analysis: "Geometric Analysis on Riemannian and singular metric spaces"
• 30 Sep - 4 Oct 2013: ERC-School on Geometric Measure Theory and Real Analysis
• 7 - 11 Oct 2013: ERC-Workshop on Geometric Measure Theory, Analysis in Metric Spaces and Real Analysis
• 21 - 23 Nov 2013: New Trends in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations

Recently Added Papers

• T. Schmidt (Preprint)
  Strict interior approximation of sets of finite perimeter and functions of bounded variation (2013)
• F. Maddalena - S. Solimini (Submitted Paper)
  Synchronic and Asynchronic Descriptions of Irrigation Problems (2013)
• A. Lorent (Submitted Paper)
  On indecomposable sets with applications (2013)
• M. Focardi - M. S. Gelli - E. Spadaro (Submitted Paper)
  Monotonicity formulas for obstacle problems with Lipschitz coefficients (2013)
• M. Carriero - A. Leaci - F. Tomarelli (Adv. Calc.Var.)
  Image inpainting via variational approximation of a Dirichlet problem with free discontinuity (2013)
• M. Focardi - F. Iurlano (Submitted Paper)
  Ambrosio-Tortorelli approximation of cohesive fracture models in linearized elasticity (2013)
• V. Bögelein - F. Duzaar - N. Fusco (Preprint)
  A quantitative isoperimetric inequality on the sphere (2013)
• G. Citti - M. Manfredini - A. Pinamonti - F. Serra Cassano (Submitted Paper)
  Poincarè type inequality for intrinsic Lipschitz continuous vector fields in the Heisenberg group (2013)
• M. Negri (Submitted Paper)
  Quasi-static rate-independent evolutions: characterization, existence, approximation and application to fracture mechanics (2013)
• F. Maddalena - D. Percivale - F. Tomarelli (Submitted Paper)
  Debonding and Collapse of Glued Thin Structures (2013)

Recently Modified Papers

• L. Ambrosio - T. Schmidt (Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3))
  Compactness results for normal currents and the Plateau problem in dual Banach spaces (2013)
• D. Barilari - J. Jendrej (Accepted Paper: Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire)
  Small time heat kernel asymptotics at the cut locus on surfaces of revolution (2012)
• M. Barchiesi - F. Cagnetti - N. Fusco (J. Eur. Math. Soc.)
  Stability of the Steiner symmetrization of convex sets (2013)
• A. Braides - M. Solci (Boll. Unione Mat. Ital.)
  Multi-scale free-discontinuity problems with soft inclusions (2013)
• L. Ambrosio - C. De Lellis - T. Schmidt (Submitted Paper)
  Partial regularity for mass-minimizing currents in Hilbert spaces (2013)
• L. Beck - T. Schmidt (Preprint)
  Convex duality and uniqueness for $\rm BV$-minimizers (2013)
• P. Cardaliaguet - M. Quincampoix - C. Jimenez (Submitted Paper)
  Pure and Random strategies in differential game with incomplete informations (2013)
• A. Lorent (Submitted Paper)
  A simple proof of the characterization of functions of low Aviles Giga energy on a ball via regularity (2010)
• A. Magni - C. Mantegazza (Accepted Paper: Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova)
  A Note on Grayson's Theorem (2013)
• A. Pinamonti - F. Serra Cassano - G. Treu - D. Vittone (Submitted Paper)
  BV Minimizers of the area functional in the Heisenberg group under the bounded slope condition (2013)
• L. Ambrosio - N. Gigli - G. Savaré (Submitted Paper)
  Metric measure spaces with Riemannian Ricci curvature bounded from below (2011)
• E. Chiodaroli - C. De Lellis - O. Kreml (Preprint)
  Global ill-posedness of the isentropic system of gas dynamics (2013)