Universität Wien - Fakultät für Mathematik
Summer Semester 2026
Information on the
Seminar on Calculus of Variations (VSM)
510001-1 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
Fridays, 10:00-11:30, BZ09, 9th floor, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1.
The seminar meets in person. No zoom attendence is planned. Participation
is rewarded by coffee (bring your cup).
What
This is the weekly scientific-discussion meeting of the research group
on 'Applied Maths and Modeling', as well as of other members of
the Viennese Calculus of Variations community.
The seminar will offer the opportunity of getting in touch with
classical themes and recent developments 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 very well-prepared presentation (20-25 min.) on a preassigned topic.
The seminar is held in English.
The Schedule
The schedule and the contents of the seminar is
flexible and constantly updated:
- March 6: Ulisse Stefanelli (univie), short organizational meeting.
- March 13: Marco Picerni (SISSA), All you need is Sob(obolev inequality).
- March 20: Ulisse Stefanelli (univie), Recaps on Calc. Var.
- March 27: Ulisse Stefanelli (univie), Recaps on Calc. Var. II.
- April 17: Ferdinando Auricchio (Pavia).
- April 24: Davide Donati (SISSA).
- May 8: Luca Pignatelli (Radboud).
- May 15: Abbas Momeni (Carleton).
- May 22: Ulisse Stefanelli (univie), metric Brezis-Ekeland-Nayroles.
- May 29: Fabian Rupp (univie).
- June 5: Stefano Almi (Napoli).
- June 12: Alexander West (Bonn), Bubble
classification result.
- June 19: Amina Haznadarevic, students' seminars (two slots).
- June 26: Franz Steiner, Alberto Fanizza, one extra slot.
There will be no mantained moodle-page for this seminar. All relevant
info will be published here. Some possible topics for the seminar can
be found here.