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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

• PostDoc Position at University of Kassel, Germany (deadline: 25 Jul 2014)
• Postdoctoral position at U Penn in applied mathematics (deadline: 1 Aug 2014)
• Ricercatore a tempo determinato Università di Trieste (deadline: 7 Aug 2014)
• Postdoc positions in Münster (Applied and Numerical Analysis) (deadline: 15 Aug 2014)
• Independent Junior Research Group Leader in Münster (deadline: 17 Aug 2014)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Texas at Austin (deadline: 31 Oct 2014)

Forthcoming Events

• 31 Jul - 1 Aug 2014: Trends in Non-Linear Analysis Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
• 3 - 5 Sep 2014: Advances in Nonlinear PDEs St. Petersburg
• 8 - 11 Sep 2014: XIX Symposium on Trends in Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics. Poitiers (France)
• 15 - 17 Sep 2014: Conference on Partial Differential Equations Geometric Analysis, Calculus of Variations, Harmonic Analysis University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
• 22 - 24 Sep 2014: Variational Modeling in Solid Mechanics University of Udine
• 2 - 5 Mar 2015: Flow(ers) and Friends in Frankfurt (a workshop on Geometric Analysis) Frankfurt
• 23 - 27 Mar 2015: GAMM 86th Annual Meeting Lecce
• 1 Apr - 30 Jun 2015: Trimester "Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces" in Madrid ICMAT, Madrid, Spain

Recently Added Papers

• L. Brasco - C. Nitsch - C. Trombetti (Submitted Paper)
  An inequality à la Szego-Weinberger for the $p-$Laplacian on convex sets (2014)
• G. Metafune - D. Pallara - A. Rhandi (Theory Probab. Appl.)
  Global Properties of Transition Probabilities of Singular Diffusions (2009)
• G. Metafune - D. Pallara - A. Rhandi (J. Evol. Equ.)
  Kernel Estimates for Schroedinger Operators (2006)
• G. Metafune - D. Pallara - A. Rhandi (J. Funct. Anal.)
  Global Properties of Invariant Measures (2005)
• G. Metafune - D. Pallara - E. Priola (J. Funct. Anal.)
  Spectrum of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operators in L^p spaces with respect to invariant measures (2002)
• K. Laidoune - G. Metafune - D. Pallara - A. Rhandi (Parabolic Problems: the Herbert Amann Festschrift, Progress in nonlinear differential equations and their applications )
  Global properties of transition kernels associated with second order elliptic operators (2011)
• W. Arendt - G. Metafune - D. Pallara (J. Math. Anal. Appl.)
  Gaussian estimates for elliptic operators with unbounded drift (2008)
• M. Novaga - D. Pallara - Y. Sire (Submitted Paper)
  A fractional isoperimetric problem in the Wiener space (2014)
• G. De Philippis - F. Maggi (Preprint)
  Dimensional estimates for singular sets in geometric variational problems with free boundaries (2014)
• G. Carita - E. Zappale (Accepted Paper: Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh A)
  Relaxation for an optimal design problem with linear growth and perimeter penalization (2014)
• A. M. Ribeiro - E. Zappale (Accepted Paper: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization)
  Existence of minimizers for non-level convex supremal functionals (2014)
• L. Ambrosio - A. Pinamonti - G. Speight (Submitted Paper)
  Tensorization of Cheeger energies, the space $H^{1,1}$ and the area formula for graphs (2014)

Recently Modified Papers

• M. Colombo - E. Indrei (Accepted Paper: Math. Res. Lett.)
  Obstructions to regularity in the classical Monge problem (2014)
• E. Le Donne - S. Rigot (Submitted Paper)
  Besicovitch Covering Property for homogeneous distances in the Heisenberg groups (2014)
• A. Braides - A. Defranceschi - E. Vitali (Netw. Heterog. Media)
  Variational evolution of one-dimensional Lennard-Jones systems (2014)
• M. Bonacini - R. Cristoferi (SIAM J. Math. Anal.)
  Local and global minimality results for a nonlocal isoperimetric problem on ${\mathbb R}^N$ (2014)
• M. Goldman - J. Royo-Letelier (Accepted Paper: ESAIM COCV)
  Sharp interface limit for two components Bose-Einstein condensates (2014)
• G. De Philippis - A. Figalli (Accepted Paper: Publ. Math. Inst. Hautes Études Sci.)
  Partial regularity for optimal transport maps (2014)
• L. Beck - T. Schmidt (Submitted Paper)
  Convex duality and uniqueness for $\rm BV$ minimizers (2014)
• M. Goldman - M. Novaga - B. Ruffini (Submitted Paper)
  Existence and stability for a non-local isoperimetric model of charged liquid drops (2013)
• A. Figalli (Accepted Paper: Colloquium De Giorgi 2013-2014)
  Stability results for the Brunn-Minkowski inequality (2014)
• L. Brasco - G. Buttazzo (Submitted Paper)
  Improved energy bounds for Schrödinger operators (2014)
• A. Figalli - N. Fusco - F. Maggi - V. Millot - M. Morini (Accepted Paper: Comm. Math. Phys.)
  Isoperimetry and stability properties of balls with respect to nonlocal energies (2014)
• J. Louet (Phd Thesis)
  Optimal transport problems with gradient penalization (2014)