Universität Wien - Fakultät für Mathematik
Summer Semester 2021
Information on the
Seminar on Calculus of Variations (VSM)
510003-1 SE, SPL Mathematik
2 weekly hours, 4.0 ECTS
Organizer
Ulisse Stefanelli
e-mail: ulisse.stefanelli
univie.ac.at
webpage: http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~stefanelli
When and where
Mondays, 12.00-13.30.
The seminar will be held online via
zoom. Everybody is welcome, just mail your address
to appl.math@univie.ac.at to receive the permalink.
First organizational meeting on Monday, 01.03.2021
What
The seminar will offer the opportunity of getting in touch with
modern themes in the Calculus of
Variations.
All participants are welcome to contribute by
presenting a topic and by taking part in informal
discussions.
Occasionally, scientific guests will also be invited to
present.
Each student participant will be required to participate to most
weekly meetings and to deliver a presentation (25-35 min.) on a preassigned topic.
The seminar is held in English.
The Schedule
The schedule and the contents of the seminar will be
flexible and will be constantly updated:
- 01.03.2021: Organizational
- 08.03.2021: Ulisse Stefanelli (univie): Calculus of Variations recaps
- 15.03.2021: Marco Caroccia (Roma Tor Vergata): Cheeger sets
- 22.03.2021: Valerio Pagliari (TU Vienna): First variation of the
area functional
- 12.04.2021: Marco Pozzetta (Naples Federico II): Introduction to the geometry of varifolds and applications
- 19.04.2021: Bogdan Raita (MPI Leipzig): Oscillation and concentration in sequences of PDE constrained measures
- 26.04.2021: Katerina Nik (univie): Positivity preserving property for a hinged convex plate with stress.
- 03.05.2021: Anastasia Molchanova (univie): Orlicz and modular
spaces, notes here
- 10.05.2021: Idriss Mazari (TU Vienna): A brief introduction to quantitative inequalities & shape derivatives
- 17.05.2021: Marco Bresciani (TU Vienna)
- 31.05.2021: Wojciech Gorny (univie): Gradient flows on linear structures
- 07.06.2021: no seminar today
- 14.06.2021: Students' seminars
- 21.06.2021: Students' seminars
- 28.06.2021: Students' seminars