[CvGmt News] announcement of conference

[Donatella Danielli]

Dear Colleagues, 

I am writing to invite you and your students to participate in the Symposium on Analysis and PDEs, to be held at  Purdue University on May 23-26, 2003. The Symposium will focus on recent developments in Partial Differential Equations and Geometric Measure Theory. It will consist of two five-hour minicourses presented by the principal lecturers, and ten one-hour lectures given by the invited speakers. There will also be time allocated for contributed talks. The aim of this initiative is, on the one hand, to introduce prospective and young researchers to a larger mathematical community and help them to establish professional connections with key figures in their areas of interest. On the other hand, it will provide an opportunity to summarize some of the most recent progress in the fields, exchange ideas towards the solution of open questions, and formulate new problems and avenues of research.

Principal Lecturers: Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy): Sets of finite perimeter, BV functions, and currents in metric spaces; Luis Caffarelli (University of Texas at Austin): Some PDE's in periodic media: Minimal surfaces, fully non linear equations, and the Monge Ampere equation.

Invited Speakers: Zoltan Balogh (University of Bern, Switzerland); Piotr Hajlasz (University of Warsaw, Poland, and University of Michigan);Francois Hamel (University of Aix-Marseille III, France);Robert Hardt (Rice University); Ilkka Holopainen (University of Helsinki, Finland); Ki-Ahm Lee (Seoul National University, Korea); Yanyan Li (Rutgers University); Takis Souganidis (University of Texas at Austin); Jeremy Tyson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
 
Scientific Program: Professor Ambrosio will describe some recent progress on the theory of sets of finite perimeter, currents, and rectifiability in metric spaces, reviewing in the beginning the classical theory.The relation between intrinsic and extrinsic theories for rectifiability will also be discussed. Professor Caffarelli will address matters of existence, global solutions and homogeneization of Perron like (least supersolutions) equations, as well as free boundary problems. The invited speakers will present a variety of interrelated topics, including applications ranging from geometry to potential theory. The contributed talks will also be in subjects close to the main themes of the Symposium.
 
Support: Some funds are available to help support the participation of graduate students, postdoctoral faculty, and active senior researchers who do not have grant support. We especially encourage people who belong to currently underrepresented groups (women and minorities) to apply. Application forms are available at http://www.math.purdue.edu/~danielli/support.htm and should be received by Apr. 15, 2003.

Contributed Talks: Abstracts for 20-minute contributed talks are welcome and should be received by April 15, 2003. Please use the submission form available at http://www.math.purdue.edu/~danielli/contributed.html
 
Organizer: Donatella Danielli (danielli at math.purdue.edu). Conference secretary: Julie Morris (jmorris at math.purdue.edu)

Information: http://www.math.purdue.edu/~danielli/symposium.html

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