| SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE |
| OCTOBER 24-27, 2001 |
| PROGRAM |
October 24.
9.00 - 9.10. OPENING ADDRESS.
9.10 - 9.20. S.SETTIS, Direttore Scuola Normale Superiore
9.20 - 9.30. A.LEACI, Direttore Dipartimento di Matematica ``Ennio De Giorgi''
9.30 - 11.00. M.MIRANDA: ``Plateau's problem and the minimal surface equation''
11.00 - 11.20. coffee break
11.20 - 12.50. S.SPAGNOLO: ``The contribution of De Giorgi to non-elliptic PDE's: non-uniqueness examples, Cauchy problem in Gevrey classes and surjectivity on the analytic functions''
Afternoon session.
15.00 - 15.55. F.MORGAN: ``Area-minimizing surfaces in ambients with singularities''
16.00 - 16.55. B.FRANCHI: ``Perimeter and rectifiability in step 2 Carnot groups''
16.55 - 17.15. coffee break
17.15 - 18.10. F.HONSELL: ``Virtuous circles''
October 25.
9.00 - 10.30. M.FORTI: ``The Foundational Programme of Ennio De Giorgi''
10.30 - 10.45. coffee break
10.45 - 11.40. I.FONSECA: ``Higher order variational problems''
11.45 - 12.40. G.BUTTAZZO: ``Shape optimization and mass transportation theory''
Afternoon session.
15.00 - 15.55. H.BREZIS: ``New questions and new results on Sobolev spaces''
16.00 - 16.55. G.ALBERTI: ``Jacobians of Sk-valued maps''
16.55 - 17.15. coffee break
17.15 - 18.10. G.BELLETTINI: ``Some remarks on barriers for differential equations''
October 26.
9.00 - 10.30. E.GIUSTI: ``The contribution of De Giorgi to the regularity theory for elliptic PDE's''
10.30 - 10.45. coffee break
10.45 - 11.40. U.MOSCO: ``On the metric roots of De Giorgi-Nash-Moser's theory''
11.45 - 12.40. S.MÜLLER: ``Elliptic and parabolic systems with nowhere smooth solutions''
Afternoon session.
15.00 - 15.55. G.LONGO: ``The foundation of Mathematics as interaction with other sciences, reflections relating to and departing from De Giorgi's foundational approach''
16.00 - 16.55. A.BRAIDES: ``The construction of asymptotic theories by G-convergence''
16.55 - 17.15. coffee break
17.15 - 18.10. F.TREVES: ``On the analiticity of solutions of linear PDE''
October 27.
9.00 - 10.30. G.DAL MASO: ``The early developments of G-convergence''
10.30 - 10.45. coffee break
10.45 - 11.40. D.KINDERLEHRER: ``A Markov chain paradigm for the brownian motor and its consequences''