18 may 2015 - 29 may 2015   [open in google calendar]

University of Texas at Austin

This program will be a concentration period to include a school and a conference on “Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations” which will bring together research groups from the NSF funded program “Focused Research Group (FRG): “Vectorial and geometric problems in the Calculus of Variations”” with collaborative structures between Craig Evans, UC Berkeley; Ovidiu Savin, Columbia U and Alessio Figalli with Francesco Maggi at The University of Texas at Austin.

The entire two-week program will take place at UT Austin from May 18, 2015 until May 29, 2015 and will involve senior and junior researchers, postdocs and graduate students. During the first week, there will be a school consisting of three minicourses, each six hours, while the second week will host a conference with a series of one-hour lectures.

Registration, financial support and additional information are found in the conference webpage (see link below)

MINICOURSES (WEEK ONE)

Manuel del Pino, U Chile

L. Craig Evans, UC Berkeley

Robert Kohn, NYU

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS (WEEK TWO)

Almut Burchard, U Toronto

Luis Caffarelli, U Texas

Eric Carlen, Rutgers U

Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon U

Rupert Frank, Caltech

Fanghua Lin, NYU

Michael Loss, Georgia Tech

Paolo Marcellini, U Florence

Sandro Salsa, Politecnico Milan

Ovidiu Savin, Columbia U

Rick Schoen, Stanford U

Luis Silvestre, U Chicago

Dejan Slepcev, Carnegie Mellon U

Peter Sternberg, Indiana U

Vladimir Sverak, U Minnesota

Alexis Vasseur, U Texas

Neshan Wickramasekera, U Cambridge

Organizers: Alessio Figalli, Francesco Maggi.

• conference webpage