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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Dear Colleagues, </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>I am writing to invite you and your students
to participate in the Symposium on Analysis and PDEs, to be held at
Purdue University on May 23-26, 2003. The Symposium will focus on recent
developments in Partial Differential Equations and Geometric Measure Theory. It
will consist of two five-hour minicourses presented by the principal lecturers,
and ten one-hour lectures given by the invited speakers. There will also be time
allocated for contributed talks. The aim of this initiative is, on the one hand,
to introduce prospective and young researchers to a larger mathematical
community and help them to establish professional connections with key figures
in their areas of interest. On the other hand, it will provide an opportunity to
summarize some of the most recent progress in the fields, exchange ideas towards
the solution of open questions, and formulate new problems and avenues of
research.<BR><BR><STRONG>Principal Lecturers:</STRONG> Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola
Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy): Sets of finite perimeter, BV functions, and
currents in metric spaces; Luis Caffarelli (University of Texas at Austin): Some
PDE's in periodic media: Minimal surfaces, fully non linear equations, and the
Monge Ampere equation.<BR><BR><STRONG>Invited Speakers:</STRONG> Zoltan Balogh
(University of Bern, Switzerland); Piotr Hajlasz (University of Warsaw, Poland,
and University of Michigan);Francois Hamel (University of Aix-Marseille III,
France);Robert Hardt (Rice University); Ilkka Holopainen (University of
Helsinki, Finland); Ki-Ahm Lee (Seoul National University, Korea); Yanyan Li
(Rutgers University); Takis Souganidis (University of Texas at Austin); Jeremy
Tyson (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign).<BR> <BR><STRONG>Scientific Program:</STRONG> Professor
Ambrosio will describe some recent progress on the theory of sets of finite
perimeter, currents, and rectifiability in metric spaces, reviewing in the
beginning the classical theory.The relation between intrinsic and extrinsic
theories for rectifiability will also be discussed. Professor Caffarelli will
address matters of existence, global solutions and homogeneization of Perron
like (least supersolutions) equations, as well as free boundary problems. The
invited speakers will present a variety of interrelated topics, including
applications ranging from geometry to potential theory. The contributed talks
will also be in subjects close to the main themes of the
Symposium.<BR> <BR><STRONG>Support:</STRONG> Some funds are available to
help support the participation of graduate students, postdoctoral faculty, and
active senior researchers who do not have grant support. We especially encourage
people who belong to currently underrepresented groups (women and minorities) to
apply. Application forms are available at </FONT></FONT><A
href="http://www.math.purdue.edu/~danielli/support.htm"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://www.math.purdue.edu/~danielli/support.htm</FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial size=2> and should be received by Apr. 15, 2003.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>Contributed
Talks: </STRONG>Abstracts for 20-minute contributed talks are welcome
and should be received by April 15, 2003. Please use the submission form
available at </FONT></FONT><A
href="http://www.math.purdue.edu/~danielli/contributed.html"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://www.math.purdue.edu/~danielli/contributed.html</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2> <BR><STRONG>Organizer:</STRONG> Donatella Danielli
(</FONT><A href="mailto:danielli@math.purdue.edu"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>danielli@math.purdue.edu</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>). Conference
secretary: Julie Morris (</FONT><A href="mailto:jmorris@math.purdue.edu"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>jmorris@math.purdue.edu</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial
size=2>)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR><STRONG>Information:</STRONG> <A
href="http://www.math.purdue.edu/~danielli/symposium.html">http://www.math.purdue.edu/~danielli/symposium.html</A><BR></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>