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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)
• Analysis of Optimal Sets and Optimal Constants: Old Questions and New Results (Aldo Pratelli)
• Mathematics for Shape Memory Technologies in Biomechanics (Ulisse Stefanelli)
• Geometry of Metric Groups (Enrico Le Donne) > papers

Open Positions

• Postdoctoral Researcher at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology under Prof. Daniel Spector (deadline: 15 Dec 2019)
• 4-year PhD student in Probability and Analysis in Eindhoven (deadline: 15 Dec 2019)
• Postdoc and PhD positions in Münster and Vienna (deadline: 15 Dec 2019)
• Post-doc positions in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics -- Uppsala Universitet (deadline: 16 Dec 2019)
• PhD-position at TU-Vienna: numerical methods for highly oscillatory differential equations (deadline: 16 Dec 2019)
• concorsi dipartimento di matematica università di Pisa (deadline: 30 Dec 2019)
• Two-year PostDoc position at TU Dortmund, Germany (deadline: 31 Dec 2019)
• two-year postdoctoral position UTIA, Czech Academy of Science, Prague (deadline: 31 Dec 2019)
• Postdoctoral position in Analysis, University of Pittsburgh (deadline: 1 Jan 2020)
• Faculty Positions at Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL. (deadline: 12 Jan 2020)
• Two-year postdoctoral position in geometric analysis at University of Paris (deadline: 18 Jan 2020)
• Postdoc postition (2 years) at Warwick in ERC group of Filip Rindler (deadline: 20 Jan 2020)

Forthcoming Seminars

• 11 Dec 2019: E. Radici: A deterministic particle approach to aggregation diffusion models and application to opinion dynamics.

Forthcoming Events

• 15 - 18 Dec 2019: Junior Math Days 2019 SISSA, Trieste
• 13 - 15 Jan 2020: Winter School on Reaction Diffusion PDE's and Optimization Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Univ. Cattolica di Brescia
• 16 - 17 Jan 2020: Geometric Measure Theory in Padova University of Padova, Department of Mathematics
• 22 - 22 Jan 2020: MI-TO Geometry and Analysis Seminar - I Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
• 24 - 25 Jan 2020: 19th GAMM Seminar on Microstructures 2020 Freiburg (Germany)
• 27 - 31 Jan 2020: Winter School: Turbulence in fluids and PDEs EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
• 27 Jan - 1 Feb 2020: Calculus of Variations and Applications (on the occasion of Gianni Dal Maso's birthday) Trieste, SISSA
• 30 - 31 Jan 2020: Nonlinear meeting in Milan Politecnico di Milano
• 23 - 27 Mar 2020: Geometric Variational Problems University Ulm
• 19 - 23 May 2020: Mini Courses: Sub-Riemannian Geometry and Beyond, III. A gist on Lie groups in Pisa Pisa: Centro De Giorgi
• 25 - 29 May 2020: Conference: Sub-Riemannian Geometry and Beyond, III. A gist on Lie groups in Pisa Pisa: Centro De Giorgi
• 8 - 12 Jun 2020: Workshop "Variational methods and applications" Centro De Giorgi, Pisa
• 13 - 17 Jul 2020: Tenth Summer School in Analysis and Applied Mathematics Dipartimento di Matematica - Sapienza, Università di Roma

Recently Added Papers

• R. Marchello - M. Morandotti - H. Shum - M. Zoppello (Submitted Paper)
  The $N$-link swimmer in three dimensions: controllability and optimality results (2019)
• A. Minne - D. Tewodrose (Submitted Paper)
  Asymptotic Mean Value Laplacian in Metric Measure Spaces (2019)
• M. Vedovato - F. Serra Cassano (Accepted Paper: Le Matematiche)
  The Bernstein problem in Heisenberg groups (2019)
• S. Stuvard - Y. Tonegawa (Submitted Paper)
  An existence theorem for Brakke flow with fixed boundary conditions (2019)
• A. Gerolin - J. Grossi - P. Gori-Giorgi (preprint)
  Kinetic correlation functionals from the entropic regularisation of the strictly-correlated electrons problem (2019)
• A. Mallasto - G. Montúfar - A. Gerolin (preprint)
  How Well Do WGANs Estimate the Wasserstein Metric? (2019)
• M. Bonnivard - E. Bretin - A. Lemenant (Accepted Paper: Mathematics of computation)
  Numerical approximation of the Steiner problem in dimension 2 and 3 (2020)
• S. Don - E. Le Donne - T. Moisala - D. Vittone (preprint)
  A rectifiability result for finite-perimeter sets in Carnot groups (2019)
• K. Brazda - L. Lussardi - U. Stefanelli (Submitted Paper)
  Existence of varifold minimizers for the multiphase Canham-Helfrich functional (2019)
• C. I. Zeppieri (Accepted Paper: Mathematics in Engineering)
  Homogenisation of high-contrast brittle materials (2019)
• E. Davoli - L. Scarpa - L. Trussardi (Preprint)
  Local asymptotics for nonlocal convective Cahn-Hilliard equations with $W^{1,1}$ kernel and singular potential (2019)
• M. Goldman - B. Merlet (Accepted Paper: Rend. Sem. Mat. Torino)
  Recent results on non-convex functionals penalizing oblique oscillations (2019)

Recently Modified Papers

• C. Afeltra (preprint)
  Singular periodic solutions to a critical equation in the Heisenberg group (2019)
• M. Bonacini - E. Davoli - M. Morandotti (NoDEA)
  Analysis of a perturbed Cahn-Hilliard model for Langmuir-Blodgett films (2019)
• P. van Meurs - M. Morandotti (SIAM J. App. Math.)
  Discrete-to-continuum limits of particles with an annihilation rule (2019)
• S. Almi - G. Lazzaroni - I. Lucardesi (Mathematics in Engineering)
  Crack growth by vanishing viscosity in planar elasticity (2020)
• G. Lazzaroni - L. Nardini (ESAIM: COCV)
  On the 1d wave equation in time-dependent domains and the problem of debond initiation (2019)
• A. Arroyo-Rabasa - A. Skorobogatova (Preprint)
  On the fine properties of elliptic operators (2019)
• L. Lussardi (Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Pol. Torino)
  The Plateau problem in the Calculus of Variations (2019)
• A. Gerolin - A. Kausamo - T. Rajala (ESAIM: COCV)
  Duality theory for multi-marginal optimal transport with repulsive costs in metric spaces (2019)
• W. Borrelli - R. L. Frank (Accepted Paper: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.)
  Sharp decay estimates for critical Dirac equations (2019)
• B. Bulanyi - A. Lemenant (Submitted Paper)
  Regularity for the planar optimal $p$-compliance problem (2019)
• M. Novaga - P. Pozzi (Accepted Paper: SIAM J. Math. Anal.)
  A second order gradient flow of $p$-elastic planar networks (2019)
• P. Bonicatto - E. Marconi (Submitted Paper)
  Regularity estimates for the flow of BV autonomous divergence free vector fields in $\mathbb{R}^2$ (2019)
• M. Caponi (Submitted Paper)
  Existence of solutions to a phase-field model of dynamic fracture with a crack-dependent dissipation (2018)
• M. Caponi (Ph.D. Thesis)
  On some mathematical problems in fracture dynamics (2019)
• L. Bungert - M. Burger - A. Chambolle - M. Novaga (Accepted Paper: Anal. PDE)
  Nonlinear Spectral Decompositions by Gradient Flows of One-Homogeneous Functionals (2019)
• F. Farroni - N. Fusco - S. Guarino Lo Bianco - R. Schiattarella (Accepted Paper: J. Funct. Anal.)
  A formula for the anisotropic total variation of SBV functions (2019)
• E. Le Donne - R. Young (preprint)
  Carnot rectifiability of sub-Riemannian manifolds with constant tangent (2019)
• E. Le Donne - R. Züst (preprint)
  Space of signatures as inverse limits of Carnot groups (2019)
• C. Bellettini - E. Le Donne (preprint)
  Sets with constant normal in Carnot groups: properties and examples (2019)
• E. Le Donne - D. Lučić - E. Pasqualetto (preprint)
  Universal infinitesimal Hilbertianity of sub-Riemannian manifolds (2019)
• G. Antonelli - E. Le Donne (preprint)
  Pauls rectifiable and purely Pauls unrectifiable smooth hypersurfaces (2019)
• F. Onoue (Preprint)
  Nonexistence of Minimizers for a Nonlocal Perimeter Functional with a Riesz and a Background Potential (2019)
• V. Crismale - G. Orlando (Accepted Paper: Mathematics in Engineering)
  A lower semicontinuity result for linearised elasto-plasticity coupled with damage in $W^{1,γ}$, $γ>1$ (2020)
• R. Adami - U. Boscain - V. Franceschi - D. Prandi (Submitted Paper)
  Point interactions for 3D sub-Laplacians (2019)