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Attention: There are same changes in the school program. Please see Scientific Program
Objectives
The main goals of this school are
to expose students and young researchers to recent developments
and current problems in the Calculus of Variations, and to provide
a stimulating environment for research exchanges and networking
opportunities
Topics
Differential inclusions, Γ-convergence
Relaxation, Regularity, Geometric Measure theory
Lecturers
Andrea Braides (Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor
Vergata, Italy)
Bernard Dacorogna (Ecole Polytechnique Federale
de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Irene Fonseca (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
Nicola Fusco (Universita degli Studi di Napoli
``Federico II", Italy )
Courses
The passage from discretes systems to continuous variational problems, Andrea Braides
Non convex problems of the calculus of variations and differential inclusions, Bernard Dacorogna
Variational methods for thin structures, Irene Fonseca
Sharp isoperimetric inequalities and applications to quantitative Sobolev inequalities, Nicola Fusco
List of invited Speakers
Roberto Alicandro (Universita degli Studi di Cassino, Italy)
Jean-Francois Babadjian (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
Mikil Foss (University of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA)
Francesco Maggi (Universita degli Studi di Firenze)
Maria Giovanna Mora (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
Massimiliano Morini (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
Giovanni Pisante (Seconda Universita degli Studi di Napoli, Italy)
Ana Margarida Ribeiro (FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)
Summer school schedule: please check scientific program
Contributed Talks
Graduate Students and Postdocs are encouraged to contribute
a (30 min.) presentation for this Summer School. The deadline for Submission of contributed abstracts is May 31, 2006.
Financial Support
Advanced undergraduate students and Graduate students are encouraged to apply for financial support. The deadline for applications is May 31, 2006.
Deadline: June 31, 2006.
Students Fee: 100 Euros
Non-Students Fee: 200 Euros
Members of Azores University Fee: 50 Euros
Please indicate in the registration form the type of payment: Cash, check (in both cases the payment would be made in Azores) or wire transfer NEW!!! .
Conference Visit: To be announced Irene Fonseca (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)
Diogo Gomes (Instituto Superior Técnico)
Giovanni Leoni (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)
Organizing committee
Margarida Baía,
José Matias and Pedro Santos (Instituto Superior Técnico)
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