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Projects
- Quasistatic and Dynamic Evolution Problems in Plasticity and Fracture (Gianni Dal Maso)
- Anisotropic geometric variational problems: existence, regularity and uniqueness (Antonio De Rosa)
- Analytic Techniques for Geometric and Functional Inequalities (Nicola Fusco)
- Geometry of Metric Groups (Enrico Le Donne) > papers
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the JKO Scheme (Filippo Santambrogio)
- Variational approach to the regularity of the free boundaries (Bozhidar Velichkov)
Open Positions
- Postdoc position in Geometric Analysis at FU Berlin (deadline: 22 Sep 2025)
- Docs/PostDocs@ERC AdG "Nonlinear Evolutions and Iterative Algorithms: Optimization and Control" at the Technical University of Munich (deadline: 30 Sep 2025)
- W3 Professorship position for non-linear PDEs at TU Darmstadt (deadline: 30 Sep 2025)
- MATHRIX Assistant Professorships in Mathematics (University of Münster) (deadline: 30 Sep 2025)
- PostDoc Position at WIAS Berlin (deadline: 30 Sep 2025)
- Opening for one Postdoc position (deadline: 30 Sep 2025)
- RTT tenure-track position, Parma, SSD MATH-03/A (deadline: 16 Oct 2025)
- PhD Positions in Probability Theory and Analysis - Aarhus University, Denmark (deadline: 1 Nov 2025)
- Postdoc position in Nancy (deadline: 10 Jan 2026)
Forthcoming Events
- 18 - 19 Sep 2025: Advances in Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Analysis Brescia
- 19 - 19 Sep 2025: Perspectives in the Calculus of Variations - Un incontro in onore di Gianni Dal Maso Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei - Palazzo Corsini - Via della Lungara, 10 - Roma
- 22 - 24 Sep 2025: Analysis of partial differential equations and Calculus of Variations Dresden
- 22 - 26 Sep 2025: Warsaw Analysis Days Event WADE25 University of Warsaw
- 23 - 24 Sep 2025: Workshop on free boundary and geometric variational problems in Naples Naples
- 24 - 26 Sep 2025: Hyperbolic Problems in Nürnberg
- 24 - 26 Sep 2025: Cauchy-Riemann Geometry and Subelliptic Theory Matera
- 29 Sep - 1 Oct 2025: Mathematical Analysis of Fluid Flows by Variational Methods Berlin
- 13 - 17 Oct 2025: Workshop "Optimal transport and metric geometry across structures" Bernoulli Center, EPFL, Lausanne
- 14 - 17 Oct 2025: Progress in modeling and analysis for nanomagnetism and related topics Centro di ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi
- 20 - 24 Oct 2025: Morphogenesis and morphing: 200 years after Gauss Centro De Giorgi, Pisa
- 22 - 24 Oct 2025: Variational Analysis of complex systems in Materials Science, Physics and Biology FBK-Polo Umanistico Via Santa Croce, 77 Trento
- 23 - 24 Oct 2025: Celebration of Variations (on the occasion of Michael Struwe's 70th birthday) Università di Torino
- 24 - 24 Oct 2025: One Day on Variational Problems, on the occasion of Franco Tomarelli’s 70 birthday Milano
- 27 Oct - 5 Nov 2025: Lectures by Y. Tonegawa in Vienna Vienna
- 3 - 7 Nov 2025: 2nd Atlantic conference in nonlinear PDEs: Harmonic Analysis, Dispersive and Elliptic Equations Lisbon, Portugal
- 5 - 7 Nov 2025: Local and nonlocal methods in geometric analysis Centro di Ricerca Matematica E. De Giorgi
- 5 - 7 Nov 2025: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Salzburg 2025 Salzburg, Austria
- 27 - 28 Nov 2025: Analytic and geometric methods in PDEs
- 5 - 9 Jan 2026: ICMS Winter School: PDE in Geometry and Analysis ICMS in Edinburgh
- 12 - 16 Jan 2026: Calculus of Variations and applications CIRM, Marseille, France
- 26 - 30 Jan 2026: ESI Workshop "Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory & Biological Applications" (MoDiS) Vienna (Austria)
- 27 - 30 Jan 2026: Shape Optimization, Geometric Inequalities and Related Topics - III edition Naples
- 2 - 6 Feb 2026: Emerging Horizons in Geometric Spectral Theory: an ECRs workshop Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI), Cambridge
- 9 - 13 Feb 2026: XXXV Convegno Nazionale di Calcolo delle Variazioni Hotel Mediterraneo, Riccione
- 23 - 27 Feb 2026: Modern Methods in the Calculus of Variations Bonn, Germany
- 9 - 13 Mar 2026: Spring School: Horizons in nonlinear PDEs Ulm
- 20 - 23 Apr 2026: Valentia Geometrica 2026: a workshop on Geometric Analysis Universitat de València
- 1 - 5 Jun 2026: Nonlinear Analysis, Function Spaces and Applications 13 (NAFSA 13) Prague, Czech Republic
- 8 - 12 Jun 2026: Geometric Analysis: Parabolic and Elliptic Methods KTH Stockholm
- 15 - 19 Jun 2026: 14th School on Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces Hotel Montana - Trento
- 21 - 27 Jun 2026: HAJŁASZ'60 Będlewo Conference Center, Będlewo, Poland
- 22 Jun - 3 Jul 2026: European School of Differential Geometry L'Aquila (Italy)
Recently Added Papers
- A. Maione (preprint)
Fractional Sobolev spaces via interpolation, and applications to mixed local-nonlocal operators (2025) - A. Fanizza (preprint)
Gamma-convergence as $s\to1^-$ of anisotropic nonlocal fractional perimeter functionals (2025) - M. Caselli - N. Picenni (preprint)
Saddle solution to the complex Ginzburg-Landau system in three dimensions (2025) - C. Gambicchia (preprint)
The double spherical cap rearrangement of planar sets (2025) - A. Plakhotnikov (preprint)
Spectral structure of infinite size squared distances matrices (2025) - S. Verzellesi (Preprint)
A survey on anisotropic integral representation results (2025) - A. Cecchin - A. Goffi (Submitted Paper)
Convergence rates for the vanishing viscosity approximation of fully nonlinear, non-convex, second-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations via nonlinear convolutions (2025) - M. Caroccia - K. Demason - F. Maggi (Accepted Paper: Journal of Functional Analysis)
On the emergence of almost-honeycomb structures in low-energy planar clusters (2025) - A. Cances - H. Leclerc (Preprint)
Unidimensional semi-discrete partial optimal transport (2025) - M. Caponi (Preprint)
A Survey on the Div-Curl Lemma and Some Extensions to Fractional Sobolev Spaces (2025) - A. Carbotti (Preprint)
The Pólya-Szegö principle in the fractional setting: a glimpse on nonlocal functional inequalities (2025) - D. Mucci - A. Saracco - C. Sopio (Submitted Paper)
Weak elastic energy of rectifiable curves in the sphere (2025) - S. Kryzhevich - E. Stepanov - D. Trevisan (Preprint)
Chow and Rachevsky meet Sobolev (2025) - F. Ancona - L. Caravenna - A. Cliffe - E. Marconi (Preprint)
On the regularity of continuous solutions to multidimensional scalar conservation laws with $L^\infty$ source (2025) - G. Bertazzoni - E. Davoli - S. Riccò - E. Zappale (Submitted Paper)
Functions of bounded Musielak-Orlicz-type deformation and anisotropic Total Generalized Variation for image-denoising problems (2025) - R. Buzano - L. Yudowitz (preprint)
Bubble-Tree Convergence and Local Diffeomorphism Finiteness for Gradient Ricci Shrinkers (2022) - A. Bertellotti - R. Buzano (preprint)
Ends of (singular) Ricci shrinkers (2024) - R. Buzano - S. Maillot (preprint)
Mean Curvature Flow and Heegaard Surfaces in Lens Spaces (2023) - A. Bertellotti - R. Buzano (preprint)
Geometric Structure of Ends of Ricci Shrinkers (2025) - F. Lai (preprint)
The Gross-Pitaewsky equation with time and space dependent coefficients (2025) - M. Friedrich - L. Kreutz - U. Stefanelli (Submitted Paper)
Crystallization in the Winterbottom shape and sharp fluctuation laws (2025)
Recently Modified Papers
- A. Prade (Accepted Paper: Nonlinear Analysis)
Boundary regularity for nonlocal elliptic equations over Reifenberg flat domains (2025) - M. Gobbino - N. Picenni (J. Funct. Anal.)
Gamma-liminf estimate for a class of non-local approximations of Sobolev and BV norms (2025) - M. Di Marco - S. Don - D. Vittone (Nonlinear Anal.)
SBV functions in Carnot-Carathéodory spaces (2026) - N. De Nitti - K. Huang (Preprint)
Asymptotically compatible entropy-consistent discretization for a class of nonlocal conservation laws (2025) - G. P. Leonardi - G. Vianello (Accepted Paper: Calc. Var. PDE)
Stability of axial free-boundary hyperplanes in circular cones (2025) - P. Ambrosio - A. G. Grimaldi - A. Passarelli di Napoli (Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata)
On the second-order regularity of solutions to widely singular or degenerate elliptic equations (2025) - M. Cicalese - T. Heilmann (Mathematics in Engineering)
Surfactants in the Two Gradient Theory of Phase Transitions (2025) - F. Nobili - I. Y. Violo (Accepted Paper: Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations)
Fine Pólya-Szegő rearrangement inequalities in metric spaces and applications (2025) - F. Bianchi - G. Stefani - A. C. Zagati (Accepted Paper: Nonlinear Anal.)
A geometrical approach to the sharp Hardy inequality in Sobolev-Slobodeckiĭ spaces (2024) - N. Cangiotti - M. Caponi - A. Maione - E. Vitillaro (Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis)
Schrödinger-Maxwell equations driven by mixed local-nonlocal operators (2024) - S. Almi - M. Caponi - M. Friedrich - F. Solombrino (Mathematische Annalen)
A fractional approach to strain-gradient plasticity: beyond core-radius of discrete dislocations (2025) - S. Almi - M. Caponi - M. Friedrich - F. Solombrino (Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications)
Geometric rigidity on Sobolev spaces with variable exponent and applications (2025) - N. Cangiotti - M. Caponi - A. Maione - E. Vitillaro (Milan Journal of Mathematics)
Klein-Gordon-Maxwell equations driven by mixed local-nonlocal operators (2023) - G. C. Brusca - D. Donati - C. Trifone (Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations)
Singular perturbations models in phase transitions for anisotropic higher-order materials (2025) - G. C. Brusca (Nonlinear Analysis)
Homogenization in perforated domains at the critical scale (2024) - P. Barrios - S. Mayorga - E. Stepanov (Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI)
On a discrete max-plus transportation problem (2024) - T. Ma - E. Stepanov (Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA)
On eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the operators defining multidimensional scaling on some symmetric spaces (2025) - M. Caponi - A. Carbotti - A. Maione (Accepted Paper: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations)
$H$-compactness for nonlocal linear operators in fractional divergence form (2025) - A. Carbotti - S. Don - D. Pallara - A. Pinamonti (ESAIM: Control, Optimization and Calculus of Variations)
Local minimizers and Gamma-convergence for nonlocal perimeters in Carnot Groups (2021) - L. De Pascale - P. Pegon (Preprint)
A Rockafellar Theorem for cyclically quasi-monotone maps: the regular non-vanishing case (2025) - G. Cristinelli - J. A. Iglesias - D. Walter (Computational Optimization and Applications)
Conditional gradients for total variation regularization with PDE constraints: a graph cuts approach (2023) - A. Braides - G. Noselli - S. Vincini (J. Math. Phys. Solids)
Elastic bodies with kinematic constraints on many small regions (2025) - M. Santilli (Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN)
Finite total curvature and soap bubbles with almost constant higher-order mean curvature (2024) - M. Santilli - B. Schmidt (Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei Rend. Lincei Mat. Appl.)
Two phase models for elastic membranes with soft inclusions (2023) - M. Santilli - P. Valentini (Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A)
Alexandrov sphere theorems for $ W^{2,n} $-hypersurfaces (2025)