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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 and PhD positions in Computational PDEs, Vienna (deadline: 8 Jul 2025)
- CPJ CNRS in Analysis (deadline: 14 Jul 2025)
- RTT tenure-track position at Rome Tor Vergata in Analysis and Probability (deadline: 17 Jul 2025)
- 2x PhD Positions at the University of Pisa (Official Call) (deadline: 18 Jul 2025)
- Open PhD Position in Analysis and PDEs at KIT Karlsruhe (deadline: 31 Jul 2025)
- Tenure-track position in analysis at KTH Stockholm (deadline: 28 Aug 2025)
- Postdoc position in Prague in calculus of variations and PDEs with applications to continuum mechanics (deadline: 29 Aug 2025)
- Docs/PostDocs@ERC AdG "Nonlinear Evolutions and Iterative Algorithms: Optimization and Control" at the Technical University of Munich (deadline: 30 Sep 2025)
Forthcoming Seminars
- 16 Jul 2025: C. Bellettini: PDE analysis on stable minimal hypersurfaces: curvature estimates and sheeting
Forthcoming Events
- 7 - 11 Jul 2025: Geometric Methods in Calculus of Variations Centro De Giorgi, Pisa
- 13 - 18 Jul 2025: Warsaw Summer School on Evolutionary PDEs University of Warsaw
- 13 - 26 Jul 2025: Summer school in Geometric Measure Theory Hangzhou, China
- 14 - 18 Jul 2025: PRIN school on Geometry and Gravity SISSA
- 14 - 27 Jul 2025: Festum Pi Chania, Greece
- 21 - 23 Jul 2025: CoScaRa Workshop: Deterministic and Stochastic Advection in Fluid Dynamics Basel, Switzerland
- 21 - 25 Jul 2025: Nonlinear PDEs in Guimarães 2025 Guimarães, Portugal
- 22 - 24 Jul 2025: Workshop on Recent trends in calculus of variations and PDE University of Oldenburg, Germany
- 27 - 30 Jul 2025: Workshop on spectral geometry, PDEs and mathematical physics Hagen, Germany
- 28 Jul - 1 Aug 2025: Interactions between convex geometry and spectral analysis Montréal
- 28 - 30 Jul 2025: Regensburg GAP Days Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Regensburg
- 26 - 29 Aug 2025: Spectral Theory Workshop Reading, UK
- 31 Aug - 5 Sep 2025: Summer School "Curvature & Applications" Lake Chiemsee, Germany
- 1 - 5 Sep 2025: XIII Brazilian-Italian Workshop in Nonlinear Differential Equations Modena
- 1 - 5 Sep 2025: British Isles Graduate Workshop VI: Minimal surfaces Totland, YHA, Isle of Wight
- 1 - 3 Sep 2025: Three days between Analysis and Geometry in Trento - 4° Edition Trento
- 3 - 5 Sep 2025: Boundary Analysis for Dispersive and Viscous Fluids Pavia
- 3 - 5 Sep 2025: Mind the GAP - Young researchers meeting in Geometric Analysis and PDEs University of Trento
- 8 - 12 Sep 2025: Conference: Frontiers in Calculus of Variations and Applied Analysis TUM
- 8 - 11 Sep 2025: Perspectives in Geometric Analysis Politecnico di Milano
- 9 - 13 Sep 2025: Diffusion in Warsaw 2025
- 9 - 12 Sep 2025: Young Researchers Meeting on PDEs II Università di Milano-Bicocca
- 10 - 12 Sep 2025: New Challenges in Hyperbolic Problems Bernoulli Center, EPFL, Lausanne
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 27 - 30 Jan 2026: Shape Optimization, Geometric Inequalities and Related Topics Naples
- 9 - 13 Feb 2026: XXXV Convegno Nazionale di Calcolo delle Variazioni Hotel Mediterraneo, Riccione
- 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
- 21 - 27 Jun 2026: HAJŁASZ'60 Będlewo Conference Center, Będlewo, Poland
Recently Added Papers
- G. Di Fratta - C. Serpico - V. Slastikov (Preprint)
Magnetoelastic actuated motion of fine ferromagnetic particles (2025) - G. Bevilacqua - M. Carducci (preprint)
Free boundary regularity for a tumor growth model with obstacle (2025) - A. Cesaroni - I. Fragalà - M. Novaga (Submitted Paper)
A note on the honeycomb optimality among periodic convex tilings (2025) - A. Delalande - S. Farinelli (preprint)
Regularized Moment Measures (2025) - M. Bonnivard - E. Bretin - A. Lemenant - E. Machefert (Preprint)
Phase field approximation for Plateau’s problem: a curve geodesic distance penalty approach (2025) - F. Anceschi - M. Piccinini (Preprint)
Boundedness estimates for nonlinear nonlocal kinetic Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck equations (2024) - F. Nobili - I. Y. Violo (preprint)
Generalized existence of extremizers for the sharp $p$-Sobolev inequality on Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative curvature (2025) - S. Dweik - A. Sabra (Preprint)
Fractional infinity Laplacian with obstacle (2025) - G. Dal Maso - D. Donati (Submitted Paper)
A matrix-valued measure associated to the derivatives of a function of generalised bounded deformation (2025) - P. Ambrosio (Phd Thesis)
Regularity results for solutions to some classes of strongly degenerate elliptic and parabolic problems (2025) - A. Skorobogatova - L. Spolaor - S. Stuvard (Preprint)
Structure of two-dimensional mod$(q)$ area minimizing currents near flat singularities: the codimension one case (2025) - F. Fleißner (Submitted Paper)
The Kernel-Density-Estimator Minimizing Movement Scheme (2025) - M. Carioni - L. Del Grande (Preprint)
A General Theory for Exact Sparse Representation Recovery in Convex Optimization (2023) - Z. Fattah - I. Ftouhi - E. Zuazua (Nonlinear Analysis)
Optimal L^p-approximation of convex sets by convex subsets (2025) - I. Ftouhi (Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications)
The monotonicity of the Cheeger constant for parallel bodies (2025) - N. Picenni - M. Gobbino (Preprint)
Symmetry breaking for local minimizers of a free discontinuity problem (2025)
Recently Modified Papers
- R. Benedetti - C. Mantegazza (Rivista UMI - Matematica, Cultura e Società)
La Congettura di Poincaré e il Flusso di Ricci (2017) - L. Benatti - C. Mantegazza - F. Oronzio - A. Pluda (Accepted Paper: J. Geom. Anal.)
A Note on Ricci-Pinched Three-Manifolds (2024) - R. Benedetti - C. Mantegazza (Atti Accad. Peloritana Pericolanti Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. Natur.)
La Congettura di Poincaré (2024) - S. Della Corte - A. Diana - C. Mantegazza (Note di Matematica)
Uniform Sobolev, Interpolation and Geometric Calderón-Zygmund Inequalities for Graph Hypersurfaces (2024) - G. Ascione - D. Castorina - G. Catino - C. Mantegazza (Math. Engineering)
A Matrix Harnack Inequality for Semilinear Heat Equations (2023) - D. Castorina - G. Catino - C. Mantegazza (Ann. Mat. Pura Appl.)
Semilinear Li & Yau Inequalities (2023) - V. Agostiniani - C. Mantegazza - L. Mazzieri - F. Oronzio (Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei - Rend. Lincei Mat. Appl.)
A New Proof of the Riemannian Penrose Inequality (2023) - C. Mantegazza - M. Novaga - A. Pluda (J. Reine Angew. Math. (Crelle's Journal))
Type-0 Singularities in the Network Flow - Evolution of Trees (2022) - C. Mantegazza - M. Pozzetta (Revista Matematica Iberoamericana)
Asymptotic Convergence of Evolving Hypersurfaces (2022) - D. Castorina - C. Mantegazza (Comm. Cont. Math.)
Ancient Solutions of Superlinear Heat Equations on Riemannian Manifolds (2021) - C. Mantegazza (Short Note)
On $C^2$ Umbilical Hypersurfaces (2021) - M. Di Marco - A. Pinamonti - D. Vittone - K. Zambanini (Adv. Calc. Var.)
Stepanov Differentiability Theorem for intrinsic graphs in Heisenberg groups (2025) - M. Di Marco - A. Julia - S. Nicolussi Golo - D. Vittone (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.)
Submanifolds with boundary and Stokes' Theorem in Heisenberg groups (2025) - M. Caponi - A. Carbotti - A. Maione (Submitted Paper)
$H$-compactness for nonlocal linear operators in fractional divergence form (2024) - F. De Pas - S. Dipierro - M. Piccinini - E. Valdinoci (Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5))
Heteroclinic connections for fractional Allen-Cahn equations with degenerate potentials (2025) - N. Biswas - R. Kumar (preprint: Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications)
On semipositone problems over $\mathbb{R}^N$ for the fractional $p$-Laplace operator (2025) - B. Bulanyi - B. Ruffini (Nonlinear Analysis)
Threshold dynamics approximation schemes for anisotropic mean curvature flows with a forcing term (2025) - F. Freddi - F. Riva (Mathematics in Engineering)
Potential-based versus non potential-based cohesive models accounting for loading and unloading with application to sliding elastic laminates (2025) - A. Diana (Submitted Paper)
Stability and convergence for the length-penalized elastic flow of curves with partial free boundary (2025) - A. Pinamonti - S. Verzellesi (J. Geom. Anal.)
A characterization of horizontally totally geodesic hypersurfaces in Heisenberg groups (2025) - S. Stuvard - Y. Tonegawa (J. Differential Geom.)
Dynamical instability of minimal surfaces at flat singular points (2025) - G. Bevilacqua - S. Stuvard - B. Velichkov (Math. Annalen)
Classical solutions to the soap film capillarity problem for plane boundaries (2025) - P. Ambrosio - G. Cupini - E. Mascolo (Accepted Paper)
Regularity of vectorial minimizers for non-uniformly elliptic anisotropic integrals (2025) - F. Fleißner (Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata)
Minimal solutions to generalized $\Lambda$-semiflows and gradient flows in metric spaces (2017) - F. Fleißner (Applied Mathematics & Optimization)
A note on the differentiability of the Hellinger-Kantorovich distances (2020) - M. Manfredini - M. Piccinini - S. Polidoro (Accepted Paper: J. Evol. Equations)
The Dirichlet problem for a family of totally degenerate differential operators (2025) - G. Bellettini - S. Kholmatov - M. Novaga (Submitted Paper)
Crystalline elastic flow of polygonal curves: long time behaviour and convergence to stationary solutions (2025) - I. Ftouhi (Communications in Contemporary Mathematics)
Complete systems of inequalities relating the perimeter, the area and the Cheeger constant of planar domains (2021) - I. Ftouhi - A. L. Masiello - G. Paoli (ESAIM Control and Calculus of Variations)
Sharp inequalities involving the Cheeger constant of planar convex sets (2024) - I. Ftouhi (Applied Mathematics and Optimization)
Optimal description of Blaschke–Santaló diagrams via numerical shape optimization (2025) - M. Carioni - L. Del Grande (preprint)
A General Theory for Exact Sparse Representation Recovery in Convex Optimization (2023)