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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
• Variational approach to the regularity of the free boundaries (Bozhidar Velichkov)

Open Positions

• Doctoral position at TU Dortmund (deadline: 15 Aug 2020)
• Postdoctoral Position in Analysis, Calculus of Variations and PDE (deadline: 16 Aug 2020)
• Doctoral or Postdoctoral Positions at University of Freiburg (deadline: 16 Aug 2020)
• Several PhD positions in the German-Korean IRTG 2235 “Searching for the regular in the irregular: Analysis of singular and random systems” in Bielefeld, Germany (deadline: 23 Aug 2020)
• Professor of Mathematics at the University of Padova - Call for interest (deadline: 20 Sep 2020)
• Postdoctoral Researcher: Analysis of Quasilinear Parabolic PDEs (deadline: 20 Sep 2020)
• PhD student positions at Imperial College London (deadline: 15 Jan 2021)
• Recruitment of the Nanjing Center for Applied Mathematics（NCAM） Nanjing, China (deadline: 11 Feb 2021)

Forthcoming Events

• 24 Aug - 4 Sep 2020: 2020 Focus Period for the FRG: New Challenges in Geometric Measure Theory
• 7 - 9 Sep 2020: Free Boundary Problems and Related Evolution Equations (Cancelled, postponement under evaluation with funding agencies) Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria
• 7 - 11 Sep 2020: SRGI conference: Sub-Riemannian Geometry and Interactions Sorbonne Université, Faculté Pierre et Marie Curie (4 place Jussieu, Paris)
• 14 - 18 Sep 2020: Geometric Measure Theory and Geometric Analysis in Moscow
• 22 - 26 Feb 2021: Winterschool on Analysis and Applied Mathematics Münster
• 29 Mar - 2 Apr 2021: Research School "Shape Optimization, Spectral Geometry and Calculus of Variations" CIRM, Luminy, France
• 12 - 16 Apr 2021: Optimization of shape and material properties: advanced mathematical methods and 3D printing CISM, Udine
• 12 - 16 Apr 2021: Hausdorff School: “Diffusive Systems” Bonn
• 20 - 21 May 2021: ''Workshop on $L^\infty$ and constrained variational problems''. Salerno, Chiesa di Santa Maria de' Lama
• 7 - 11 Jun 2021: Workshop "Variational methods and applications" Centro De Giorgi, Pisa
• 21 - 25 Jun 2021: Tenth Summer School in Analysis and Applied Mathematics Dipartimento di Matematica - Sapienza, Università di Roma
• 28 Jun - 2 Jul 2021: Como Lake School Mathematical Models for Bio-Medical Sciences moved to 2021 Villa del Grumello, Como
• 5 - 9 Jul 2021: Special session "Sub-Riemannian Geometry and Interactions", within the AMS-SMF-EMS Joint International Meeting in Grenoble, 2021 Grenoble
• 1 - 31 Aug 2021: Jyväskylä Summer School Jyväskylä, Finland
• 13 - 17 Jun 2022: Shape Optimization, related topics and applications Roskoff Biological center, Bretagne

Recently Added Papers

• E. Davoli - M. Kruzik - P. Pelech (Submitted Paper)
  Separately global solutions to rate-independent processes in large-strain inelasticity (2020)
• D. Mucci - A. Saracco (Submitted Paper)
  Weak curvatures of irregular curves in high dimension Euclidean spaces (2020)
• G. Antonelli - D. Di Donato - S. Don (preprint)
  Distributional solutions of Burgers' type equations for intrinsic graphs in Carnot groups of step 2 (2020)
• N. Shanmugalingam - J. Bjorn - A. Bjorn (Submitted Paper)
  Extension and trace results for doubling metric measure spaces and their hyperbolic fillings (2020)
• F. Maggi - E. Valdinoci (Announcement)
  Ars Inveniendi Analytica (2020)
• C. Mantegazza - M. Pozzetta (Submitted Paper)
  The Lojasiewicz-Simon inequality for the elastic flow (2020)
• A. Goffi - F. Pediconi (Submitted Paper)
  A note on the strong maximum principle for fully nonlinear equations on Riemannian manifolds (2020)
• M. Cirant - A. Goffi (Preprint)
  Maximal $L^q$-regularity for parabolic Hamilton-Jacobi equations and applications to Mean Field Games (2020)
• D. Vittone (preprint)
  Lipschitz graphs and currents in Heisenberg groups (2020)
• G. Floridia - H. Takase (preprint)
  Observability inequalities for degenerate transport equations (2020)
• D. King - F. Maggi - S. Stuvard (preprint)
  Smoothness of collapsed regions in a capillarity model for soap films (2020)
• M. Bresciani (Preprint)
  Linearized von Kármán theory for incompressible magnetoelastic plates (2020)
• S. Biagi - A. Pinamonti - E. Vecchi (Submitted Paper)
  Pohozaev-type identities for differential operators driven by homogeneous vector fields (2020)
• G. He - P. Zhao (Analysis and Mathematical Physics)
  The isoperimetric problemin the Heisenberg group $H^n$ with density (2020)
• D. Lučić - E. Pasqualetto - T. Rajala (preprint)
  Characterisation of upper gradients on the weighted Euclidean space and applications (2020)
• D. Bourne - P. J. J. Kok - S. M. Roper - W. D. T. Spanjer (Philosophical Magazine)
  Laguerre tessellations and polycrystalline microstructures: A fast algorithm for generating grains of given volumes (2020)
• M. G. Mora - A. Scagliotti (Submitted Paper)
  Equilibrium measure for a nonlocal dislocation energy with physical confinement (2020)
• O. Chodosh - Y. Liokumovich - L. Spolaor (Preprint)
  Singular behavior and generic regularity of min-max minimal hypersurfaces (2020)
• V. Franceschi - R. Monti - A. Righini - M. Sigalotti (Submitted Paper)
  The isoperimetric problem for regular and crystalline norms in $\mathbb H^1$ (2020)
• G. Buttazzo - F. P. Maiale (Accepted Paper)
  Shape optimization problems for functionals with a boundary integral (2020)

Recently Modified Papers

• A. Chambolle - M. Novaga - V. Pagliari (Nonlinear Analysis)
  On the convergence rate of some nonlocal energies (2020)
• G. Antonelli - A. Merlo (Submitted Paper)
  Intrinsically Lipschitz functions with normal targets in Carnot groups (2020)
• S. Fanzon - M. Palombaro - M. Ponsiglione (SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis)
  Derivation of Linearised Polycrystals from a Two-Dimensional System of Edge Dislocations (2019)
• K. Bredies - S. Fanzon (ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis)
  An optimal transport approach for solving dynamic inverse problems in spaces of measures (2020)
• M. Pozzetta (Journal of Convex Analysis)
  A varifold perspective on the $p$-elastic energy of planar sets (2020)
• A. Carbotti - G. E. Comi (Submitted Paper)
  A note on Riemann-Liouville fractional Sobolev spaces (2020)
• V. Crismale - G. Scilla - F. Solombrino (Accepted Paper: Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations)
  A derivation of Griffith functionals from discrete finite-difference models (2020)
• B. Bulanyi - A. Lemenant (Submitted Paper)
  Regularity for the planar optimal $p$-compliance problem (2020)
• A. Pratelli - G. Saracco (Adv. Nonlinear Stud.)
  The $\varepsilon-\varepsilon^\beta$ property in the isoperimetric problem with double density, and the regularity of isoperimetric sets (2020)
• A. Cañete - Michele Miranda Jr. - D. Vittone (J. Geom. Anal.)
  Some isoperimetric problems in planes with density (2010)
• V. Magnani - J. T. Tyson - D. Vittone (J. Anal. Math.)
  On transversal submanifolds and their measure (2015)
• A. Massaccesi - D. Vittone (Accepted Paper: J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS))
  An elementary proof of the rank-one theorem for BV functions (2016)
• S. Fanzon - M. Ponsiglione - R. Scala (Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations)
  Uniform distribution of dislocations in Peierls-Nabarro models for semi-coherent interfaces (2019)
• G. Saracco (Submitted Paper)
  A sufficient criterion to determine planar self-Cheeger sets (2019)
• M. Santilli (Ann. Mat. Pura Appl.)
  Fine properties of the curvature of arbitrary closed sets (2017)
• A. Braides - A. Piatnitski (Adv. Calc. Var.)
  Homogenization of quadratic convolution energies in periodically perforated domains (2020)
• F. Santambrogio (Preprint)
  Lecture notes on Variational Mean Field Games (2020)
• E. Davoli - M. Kruzik - P. Piovano - U. Stefanelli (Accepted Paper: Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics)
  Magnetoelastic thin films at large strains (2020)