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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

• Post-doc in applied mathematics, ANR ISOTACE (deadline: 20 Apr 2014)
• ERC-Postdoc positions in Analysis at Erlangen (deadline: 30 Apr 2014)
• Postdoc position at Rome, Sapienza (deadline: 30 Apr 2014)
• Post-doc position at University of Würzburg (group of A. Schlömerkemper) (deadline: 15 May 2014)
• Two phd positions n the ITN project MANET in Bologna (deadline: 15 May 2014)
• PhD Position (ESR position in the ITN project MAnET) in Helsinki (deadline: 31 May 2014)
• multiple PhD and Postdoc Positions within the ITN Manet project (deadline: 31 May 2014)

Forthcoming Events

• 12 - 16 May 2014: Spring School “Microscopic descriptions and mean-field equations in physics and social sciences” University of Bath
• 21 - 23 May 2014: Calculus of Variations and Optimization   (A conference on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Giuseppe Buttazzo) Pisa, Department of Mathematics
• 28 - 30 May 2014: Recent Trends in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications Univesita' degli Studi di Trieste
• 29 - 30 May 2014: Young Applied Analysts in the UK University of Glasgow
• 2 - 7 Jun 2014: Partial Differential Equations and Geometric Measure Theory Cetraro
• 9 Jun - 12 Jul 2014: ERC Research Period on Calculus of Variations and Analysis in Metric Spaces Pisa
• 9 - 13 Jun 2014: Analysis and Geometry on Singular Spaces Pisa
• 9 - 14 Jun 2014: 1° Corso Intensivo di Calcolo delle Variazioni Catania
• 10 - 14 Jun 2014: Recent advances in non-local and non-linear analysis: theory and applications ETH, Zuerich
• 10 - 13 Jun 2014: Nonlinear partial differential equations and stochastic methods Jyvaskyla, Finland
• 16 - 20 Jun 2014: Isoperimetric Problems Between Analysis and Geometry
• 16 - 20 Jun 2014: 12th workshop on interactions between dynamical systems and partial differential equations (JISD2014) Barcelona
• 16 - 20 Jun 2014: Eighth School on Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces Levico Terme (TN)
• 23 - 27 Jun 2014: NetCO 2014 - Conference on "New Trends in Optimal Control", Tours, France
• 23 - 28 Jun 2014: School on Geometric Evolution Problems
• 23 Jun - 18 Jul 2014: Summer School on Geometric Measure Theory and Geometric Analysis Basel, Switzerland
• 23 - 27 Jun 2014: Mini-courses in Mathematical Analysis 2014 Mathematics Department - University of Padova
• 23 - 27 Jun 2014: XIII International Conference on Free Boundary Problems: Theory and Applications Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge
• 29 Jun - 3 Jul 2014: Workshop on Analysis of PDEs: Theory, Methods and Applications Cyprus
• 30 Jun - 5 Jul 2014: Existence and Regularity for Nonlinear Sytems of Partial Differential Equations
• 7 - 12 Jul 2014: School on Free Discontinuity Problems
• 31 Jul - 1 Aug 2014: Trends in Non-Linear Analysis Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

Recently Added Papers

• J. D. Lotay - T. Pacini (Preprint)
  Coupled flows, convexity and calibrations: Lagrangian and totally real geometry (2014)
• S. Nardulli - A. Muñoz Flores (Submitted Paper)
  Continuity and differentiability properties of the isoperimetric profile in complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds with bounded geometry (2014)
• R. Garg - D. Spector (Preprint)
  On the role of Riesz potentials in Poisson's equation and Sobolev embeddings (2014)

Recently Modified Papers

• S. Dipierro - A. Pinamonti (Accepted Paper: Communications in Contemporary Mathematics)
  Symmetry results for stable and monotone solutions to fibered systems of PDEs (2014)
• G. Buttazzo - M. van den Berg - B. Velichkov (Preprint)
  Optimization problems involving the first Dirichlet eigenvalue and the torsional rigidity (2014)
• V. Magnani (Preprint: Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A )
  On a measure theoretic area formula (2014)
• L. Ambrosio - G. Crippa (Lecture Notes)
  Continuity equations and ODE flows with non-smooth velocity (2013)
• G. De Philippis - M. Marini (Submitted Paper)
  A note on Petty's Theorem (2014)
• G. Scilla (Netw. Heterog. Media)
  Motion of discrete interfaces in low-contrast periodic media (2014)
• T. Kuusi - G. Mingione (Accepted Paper: Math. Ann.)
  Borderline gradient continuity for nonlinear parabolic systems (2014)
• V. Agostiniani - G. Dal Maso - A. De Simone (Preprint)
  Attainment results for nematic elastomers (2013)
• M. Barchiesi - G. M. Capriani - N. Fusco - G. Pisante (Accepted Paper: J. Funct. Anal.)
  Stability of Polya-Szego inequality for log-concave functions (2014)
• M. Barchiesi - A. DeSimone (Accepted Paper: ESAIM: COCV)
  Frank energy for nematic elastomers: a nonlinear model (2014)
• A. Chambolle - S. Lisini - L. Lussardi (Adv. Calc. Var.)
  A remark on the anisotropic outer Minkowski content (2014)