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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

• one year post-doc position at University of Parma (deadline: 17 May 2022)
• 2-Year Postdoc Position at the University of Essex (UK). (deadline: 27 May 2022)
• Postdoc at Imperial College London (deadline: 27 May 2022)
• Post-doc position in Rome Tor Vergata: NONLINEAR PDE’S AND GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS IN GEOMETRY AND PHYSICS (deadline: 29 May 2022)
• (2+1) Postdoctoral Scholar Position in Taiwan starting September 2022 (deadline: 31 May 2022)
• Post-Doc position in Mathematical Analysis in Pavia (deadline: 6 Jun 2022)
• Post-Doc position in Mathematical Analysis in Pavia (deadline: 6 Jun 2022)
• PhD positions at Università di Trento - ERC project CHANGE (deadline: 6 Jun 2022)
• 2+1 years postdoc position in Analysis at TU Munich (deadline: 15 Jun 2022)
• Positions for Ukrainian researchers in Austria (deadline: 31 Jul 2022)
• Research project on Optimal Transportation (deadline: 31 Dec 2022)

Forthcoming Events

• 2 May - 18 Jul 2022: TopMath online Seminars in Analysis by Antoine Gloria
• 15 - 20 May 2022: School on nonlinear PDEs IMPAN, Warsaw, Poland
• 16 - 20 May 2022: Calculus of Variations-Back to Carthage Carthage
• 16 - 20 May 2022: Beyond Elasticity: Advances and Research Challenges Luminy, France
• 18 - 20 May 2022: Trends in Calculus of Variations and PDEs Online
• 30 May - 3 Jun 2022: Mostly Maximum Principle Cortona
• 6 - 10 Jun 2022: Special Riemannian Metrics and Curvature Functionals Pisa: Centro De Giorgi
• 6 - 7 Jun 2022: Nonlinear meeting in Bologna Bologna
• 8 - 10 Jun 2022: Geometric Analysis and PDE on Garda Lake Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano sul Garda (BS)
• 13 - 15 Jun 2022: Nonlinear PDEs and Applications - on the occasion of Michiel Bertsch's 65(+2)th birthday Rome (Sapienza and CNR Main Building)
• 13 - 17 Jun 2022: Shape Optimization, related topics and applications Roscoff Biological center, Bretagne
• 13 - 18 Jun 2022: 20 years of Summer Schools on CalcVar in Rome Department of Mathematics, Sapienza, Rome
• 13 - 17 Jun 2022: Advances in Calculus of Variations Università Napoli Parthenope
• 15 - 17 Jun 2022: A Geometric Analysis Meeting at UniTo University of Turin
• 15 - 17 Jun 2022: XXIII STAMM Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia
• 20 - 24 Jun 2022: Lake Como School of Advanced Studies in Mathematical Models for Bio-Medical Sciences Como
• 20 - 24 Jun 2022: Isoperimetric Problems Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Pisa
• 20 - 23 Jun 2022: Hypatia Summer School, Barcelona 2022
• 20 - 24 Jun 2022: Variational Challenges in Materials Science and Imaging TU Wien and online on zoom (hybrid)
• 27 - 29 Jun 2022: Young Women in Geometric Analysis Bonn, Germany
• 27 Jun - 1 Jul 2022: 18th School on Interactions Between Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equations (JISD2022) Barcelona
• 27 - 29 Jun 2022: 12th School on Analysis and Geometry in Metric Levico Terme
• 27 Jun - 1 Jul 2022: Summer school: "Point configurations: Deformations and Rigidity" UCL London
• 30 Jun - 1 Jul 2022: Geometric Analysis in Metric Measure Spaces Levico Terme
• 4 - 6 Jul 2022: Calculus of Variations in Lille - 3rd edition Lille, France
• 4 - 6 Jul 2022: Portugal-Italy Conference on Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications Évora, Portugal
• 4 - 8 Jul 2022: Summer School in Analysis and PDE Caserta - Italy
• 4 - 6 Jul 2022: Durham Days of Analysis and PDEs - (online) Summer School Durham, UK (online)
• 20 - 22 Jul 2022: Special session "Sub-Riemannian Geometry and Interactions", within the AMS-SMF-EMS Joint International Meeting in Grenoble, 2022 Grenoble
• 8 - 12 Aug 2022: Hausdorff School on Geometric Analysis and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations University of Bonn
• 28 Aug - 2 Sep 2022: Interdisciplinary Summer School on Surfaces Frauenchiemsee, Germany
• 29 - 31 Aug 2022: Three days between Analysis and Geometry in Trento Trento
• 29 Aug - 2 Sep 2022: Summer School on "Heat Kernels and Geometry: From Manifolds to Graphs" Bregenz (Austria)
• 5 - 9 Sep 2022: Anisotropic isoperimetric problems & related topics Roma
• 6 - 9 Sep 2022: Workshop "Nonlinear evolutionary equations and applications" TU Chemnitz, Germany
• 6 - 7 Sep 2022: Optimal Transport and Uncertanity - second edition Università di Napoli Federico II
• 12 - 16 Sep 2022: Summerschool on Analysis and Applied Mathematics Münster
• 12 - 14 Sep 2022: FREE BOUNDARY PROBLEMS IN BIOLOGY AND FLUID DYNAMICS Santander
• 19 - 23 Sep 2022: Shape Optimisation and Geometric Spectral Theory ICMS, Edinburgh
• 26 - 30 Sep 2022: Summer School: Horizons in non-linear PDEs Ulm (Germany)
• 26 - 30 Sep 2022: Asymptotic analysis and spectral theory (Aspect'22) Oldenburg (Germany)
• 27 - 31 Mar 2023: Geometry and Control in Florence

Recently Added Papers

• D. Di Donato - E. Le Donne (preprint)
  Intrinsically Lipschitz sections and applications to metric groups (2022)
• D. Di Donato (preprint)
  Ahlfors-David regularity of intrinsically quasi-symmetric sections in metric spaces (2022)
• D. Di Donato (preprint)
  Intrinsically Lipschitz graphs on semidirect products of groups (2022)
• D. Di Donato (preprint)
  A note about Intrinsically Lipschitz constants (2022)
• D. Di Donato (preprint)
  Intrinsically Hölder sections in metric spaces (2022)
• D. Di Donato (preprint)
  Intrinsically quasi-isometric sections in metric spaces (2022)
• M. Novack (SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis)
  Dimension reduction for the Landau-de Gennes model: the vanishing nematic correlation length limit (2018)
• D. Golovaty - M. Novack - P. Sternberg - R. Venkatraman (Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis)
  A model problem for nematic-isotropic phase transitions with highly disparate elastic constants (2020)
• D. Golovaty - Y. K. Kim - O. Lavrentovich - M. Novack - P. Sternberg (Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena)
  Phase transitions in nematics: textures with tactoids and disclinations (2020)
• D. Golovaty - M. Novack - P. Sternberg (European Journal of Applied Mathematics)
  A novel Landau-de Gennes model with quartic elastic terms (2020)
• M. Novack - X. Yan (Journal of Nonlinear Science)
  Compactness and sharp lower bound for a 2D smectics model (2021)
• D. Golovaty - M. Novack - P. Sternberg (Journal of Differential Equations)
  A one-dimensional variational problem for cholesteric liquid crystals with disparate elastic constants (2021)
• M. Novack - X. Yan (Submitted Paper)
  A smectic liquid crystal model in the periodic setting (2022)
• M. Novack - X. Yan (Accepted Paper: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations)
  Nonlinear approximation of 3D smectic liquid crystals: sharp lower bound and compactness (2021)
• S. Conti - M. Focardi - F. Iurlano (Preprint)
  Phase-field approximation of a vectorial, geometrically nonlinear cohesive fracture energy (2022)
• L. Kreutz - M. Friedrich - K. Zemas (Submitted Paper)
  From atomistic systems to linearized continuum models for elastic materials with voids (2022)
• D. Bucur - E. Martinet - E. Oudet (Submitted Paper)
  Maximization of Neumann eigenvalues (2022)
• M. Caroccia (Preprint)
  A Compactness Theorem for functions on Poisson point clouds (2022)
• G. Caldini - A. Marchese - S. Steinbrüchel (Preprint)
  Generic uniqueness of optimal transportation networks (2022)
• M. Gallo (preprint)
  Multiplicity and concentration results for local and fractional NLS equations with critical growth (2021)
• S. Cingolani - M. Gallo (preprint)
  On the fractional NLS equation and the effects of the potential well's topology (2020)
• S. Cingolani - M. Gallo - K. Tanaka (preprint)
  Normalized solutions for fractional nonlinear scalar field equations via Lagrangian formulation (2021)
• S. Cingolani - M. Gallo - K. Tanaka (preprint)
  On fractional Schrödinger equations with Hartree type nonlinearities (2021)
• F. P. Maiale - G. Tortone - B. Velichkov (Preprint)
  The boundary Harnack principle on optimal domains (2021)
• R. Alicandro - A. Braides - M. Cicalese - M. Solci (Book (Cambridge University Press))
  Discrete Variational Problems with Interfaces (2022)
• F. Maggi - M. Novack (Preprint)
  Isoperimetric residues and a mesoscale flatness criterion for hypersurfaces with bounded mean curvature (2022)
• N. Edelen - L. Spolaor - B. Velichkov (Preprint)
  A strong maximum principle for minimizers of the one-phase Bernoulli problem (2022)

Recently Modified Papers

• G. E. Comi - G. Stefani (J. Math. Anal. Appl.)
  Leibniz rules and Gauss-Green formulas in distributional fractional spaces (2022)
• R. Marchello - M. Morandotti - H. Shum - M. Zoppello (Acta Applicandae Mathematicae)
  The $N$-link swimmer in three dimensions: controllability and optimality results (2022)
• A. Braides - L. D'Elia (Nonlinear Analysis)
  Homogenization of discrete thin structures (2022)
• C. Rigoni - E. Stepanov - D. Trevisan (J. London Math. Soc.)
  Lie brackets of nonsmooth vector fields and commutation of their flows (2020)
• G. E. Comi - G. Stefani (Accepted Paper: Rev. Mat. Complut.)
  A distributional approach to fractional Sobolev spaces and fractional variation: asymptotics I (2019)
• A. Kroshnin - E. Stepanov - D. Trevisan (Preprint)
  Infinite multidimensional scaling for metric measure spaces (2022)
• M. Cicalese - G. Orlando - M. Ruf (Accepted Paper: Nonlinear Analysis)
  A classical $\mathbb{S}^2$ spin system with discrete out-of-plane anisotropy: variational analysis at surface and vortex scalings (2021)
• R. Alicandro - M. Cicalese - L. De Luca (Accepted Paper: Nonlinear Analysis)
  Screw dislocations in periodic media: variational coarse graining of the discrete elastic energy (2021)
• M. Cicalese - G. Orlando - M. Ruf (Accepted Paper: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis)
  The N-clock model: variational analysis for fast and slow divergence rates of N (2020)
• S. Kryzhevich - E. Stepanov (Accepted Paper: Springer Proceedings dedicated to DCO 2021)
  Constructive controllability for incompressible vector fields (2021)
• D. Mucci (Nonlinear Analysis)
  Strict convergence with equibounded area and minimal completely vertical liftings (2022)
• G. Catino - D. D. Monticelli - A. Roncoroni (Submitted Paper)
  On the critical p-Laplace equation (2022)
• F. Boarotto - R. Monti - F. Palmurella (Nonlinearity)
  Third order open mapping theorems and applications to the end-point map (2020)
• F. Palmurella - T. Rivière (Adv. Math.)
  The Parametric Approach to the Willmore Flow (2022)
• F. Da Lio - F. Palmurella - T. Rivière (Arch. Rational. Mech. Anal.)
  A Resolution of the Poisson Problem for Elastic Plates (2020)
• F. Da Lio - F. Palmurella (Comm. Partial Differential Equations)
  Remarks on Neumann boundary problems involving Jacobians (2017)
• V. Crismale (Accepted Paper: Nonlinear Analysis)
  Energetic solutions for the coupling of associative plasticity with damage in geomaterials (2021)
• A. Chambolle - V. Crismale (Accepted Paper: Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci.)
  Equilibrium configurations for nonhomogeneous linearly elastic materials with surface discontinuities (2020)
• G. Citti - S. Mukherjee (Submitted Paper)
  Regularity of quasi-linear equations with Hormander vector fields of step two (2021)
• A. Cesaroni - H. Kröner - M. Novaga (Accepted Paper: J. Math. Anal. Appl.)
  Graphical translators for anisotropic and crystalline mean curvature flow (2021)
• G. Ascione - D. Castorina - G. Catino - C. Mantegazza (Math. Engineering)
  A matrix Harnack inequality for semilinear heat equations (2023)
• E. Dolera - S. Favaro - E. Mainini (Preprint)
  Strong posterior contraction rates via Wasserstein dynamics (2022)
• L. De Rosa - M. Latocca - G. Stefani (Submitted Paper)
  On double Hölder regularity of the hydrodynamic pressure in bounded domains (2022)
• L. De Rosa - M. Inversi - G. Stefani (Submitted Paper)
  Weak-strong uniqueness and vanishing viscosity for incompressible Euler equations in exponential spaces (2022)