20 oct 2025 - 24 oct 2025   [open in google calendar]

Centro De Giorgi, Pisa

This joint initiative of Centro De Giorgi, Scuola Normale Superiore, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa), Università di Pisa and SISSA (Trieste) aims to revisit the two centuries ofresearch in mathematics, mechanics, engineering and biophysics on the concepts of shape control and strength by shape in biology and engineering. In addition, we hope to brainstorm on the role of geometry in important problems, from mathematical physics to artificial intelligence, 200 years after the fundamental contributions to the geometry of surfaces given by Gauss, with special focus on recent developments and open problems.

Organizers: Giovanni Alberti, Antonio DeSimone, Adriana Garroni, Andrea Malchiodi, Matteo Novaga, Alessandra Pluda, Lucia Scardia.

Speakers: Marino Arroyo, Katia Bertoldi , Alberto Cogliati, Francesca Da Lio, Anna Dall'Acqua, Gitta Kutyniok, Danqing Liu , Simon Masnou, Barbara Mazzolai, Maria Giovanna Mora, Stefan Müller, Heiner Olbermann, Felix Otto, Helmut Pottmann , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Eran Sharon , Miles Simon.