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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

• Two-year postdoctoral position in analysis at EPFL Lausanne (deadline: 1 Nov 2019)
• Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Mathematics at EPFL Lausanne (deadline: 1 Nov 2019)
• Post-doc position (assegno di ricerca) at University of Naples "Federico II" (12 months) (deadline: 28 Nov 2019)
• Assistant Professor or higher, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada (deadline: 1 Dec 2019)
• 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)
• Two-year postdoctoral position in geometric analysis at University of Paris (deadline: 18 Jan 2020)

Forthcoming Seminars

• 23 Oct 2019: G. Antonelli: Some results on codimension one rectifiability for subsets in Carnot groups
• 30 Oct 2019: I. Lucardesi: On Blaschke-Santalo' diagrams involving the torsional rigidity and the first eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian.
• 6 Nov 2019: B. Velichkov: TBA

Forthcoming Events

• 1 Sep - 30 Nov 2019: Simons Semester in Geometry and Analysis Warsaw & Bedlewo, Poland
• 28 - 31 Oct 2019: Calculus of Variations and Applications in Trani Trani (BT), Italy
• 29 Oct - 1 Nov 2019: Mathematics for Mechanics Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
• 11 - 15 Nov 2019: Modeling of Crystalline Interfaces and Thin Film Structures: A Joint Mathematics-Physics Symposium Erwin Schrödinger International Institute (ESI), Vienna
• 22 - 22 Nov 2019: Incontri di Analisi Matematica tra Firenze, Pisa e Siena aula magna, dipartimento di matematica, università di Pisa
• 25 - 28 Nov 2019: Recent trends in Geometric analysis and applications Pisa: Centro De Giorgi
• 25 - 29 Nov 2019: Winter School "Gradient Flows and Variational Methods in PDEs" University Ulm
• 28 - 29 Nov 2019: Two days on CalcVar&PDEs Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bologna
• 13 - 15 Jan 2020: Winter School on Reaction Diffusion PDE's and Optimization Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Univ. Cattolica di Brescia
• 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

Recently Added Papers

• F. Cavalletti - A. Mondino - D. Semola (Preprint)
  Quantitative Obata's Theorem (2019)
• V. Crismale - M. Friedrich (preprint)
  Equilibrium configurations for epitaxially strained films and material voids in three-dimensional linear elasticity (2019)
• E. Le Donne - D. Lučić - E. Pasqualetto (preprint)
  Universal infinitesimal Hilbertianity of sub-Riemannian manifolds (2019)
• V. Crismale - R. Rossi (Submitted Paper)
  Balanced Viscosity solutions to a rate-independent coupled elasto-plastic damage system (2019)
• A. Pratelli - G. Saracco (Submitted Paper)
  The $\varepsilon-\varepsilon^\beta$ property in the isoperimetric problem with double density, and the regularity of isoperimetric sets (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)
• S. Piontek - T. Schmidt (Accepted Paper: ESAIM, Control Optim. Calc. Var.)
  Higher integrability for the gradient of Mumford-Shah almost-minimizers (2019)
• M. Caponi (Ph.D. Thesis)
  On some mathematical problems in fracture dynamics (2019)
• I. Lucardesi - D. Zucco (Preprint)
  On Blaschke-Santal\'o diagrams for the torsional rigidity and the first Dirichlet eigenvalue (2019)
• A. Cesaroni - M. Novaga (Submitted Paper)
  Nonlocal minimal clusters in the plane (2019)
• P. Bonicatto - E. Marconi (Preprint)
  Regularity estimates for the flow of BV autonomous divergence free vector fields in $\mathbb{R}^2$ (2019)
• Y. Giga - F. Onoue - K. Takasao (Preprint)
  A varifold formulation of mean curvature ow with Dirichlet or dynamic boundary conditions (2018)
• F. Onoue (Preprint)
  Nonexistence of Minimizers for a Nonlocal Perimeter Functional with a Riesz and a Background Potential (2019)
• M. Vedovato (Preprint)
  Quantitative regularity for $p$-minimizing maps through a Reifenberg Theorem (2019)

Recently Modified Papers

• E. Paolini - V. M. Tortorelli (Preprint)
  The quadruple planar bubble enclosing equal areas is symmetric (2018)
• L. Brasco - G. Franzina (Accepted Paper: Rendiconti Sem. Mat. Univ. Pol. Torino)
  An overview on constrained critical points of Dirichlet integrals (2019)
• V. Georgiev - E. Stepanov (Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst.)
  Metric cycles, curves and solenoids (2014)
• S. Kryzhevich - E. Stepanov (J. Differential Equations)
  The saga of a fish: from a survival guide to closing lemmas (2019)
• E. Paolini - E. Stepanov (J. Funct. Anal.)
  Decomposition of acyclic normal currents in a metric space (2012)
• S. Kholmatov - P. Piovano (Submitted Paper)
  A unified model for stress-driven rearrangement instabilities (2019)
• M. Bardi - A. Goffi (Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations)
  New strong maximum and comparison principles for fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic PDEs (2019)
• T. Schmidt (Habilitation Thesis)
  $\rm BV$ Minimizers of Variational Integrals: Existence, Uniqueness, Regularity (2015)
• M. Caponi - F. Sapio (Submitted Paper)
  A dynamic model for viscoelastic materials with prescribed growing cracks (2019)
• M. Caponi - I. Lucardesi - E. Tasso (Submitted Paper)
  Energy-dissipation balance of a smooth moving crack (2018)
• M. Caponi (Submitted Paper)
  Existence of solutions to a phase-field model of dynamic fracture with a crack-dependent dissipation (2018)
• A. Braides - A. Tribuzio (Accepted Paper: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series S)
  Perturbed minimizing movements of families of functionals (2019)
• G. Mercier - M. Novaga - P. Pozzi (Comm. Anal. Geom.)
  Anisotropic curvature flow of immersed curves (2019)
• S. Bianchini - E. Marconi (Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal.)
  On the structure of $L^\infty$-entropy solutions to scalar conservation laws in one-space dimension (2017)
• E. Marconi (Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations)
  Regularity estimates for scalar conservation laws in one space dimension (2018)
• G. Catino - P. Mastrolia (J. Geom. Anal.)
  Weyl scalars on compact Ricci solitons (2019)