International Workshop on

VARIATIONAL PROBLEMS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE

SISSA, Trieste, September 6-10, 2004

Lectures

L. Ambrosio

 

On the Cauchy problem for BV vector fields

 

K. Bhattacharya

 

Ferroelectric ceramics

 

G. Bouchitté

 

Homogenization of highly contrasted photonic crystals

 

A. Braides

 

Surface energies in discrete systems

 

G. Buttazzo

 

Path functionals over Wasserstein spaces

 

A. Chambolle

 

On the initiation of cracks in Griffith's model

 

G. Del Piero

 

Bi-modal cohesive energies

 

I. Fonseca

 

Variational Methods in Materials Science: The Study of Foams and Quantum Dots

 

I. Fragalà

 

Concentration of Ginzburg-Landau energies with ``supercritical'' growth

 

G. Francfort

 

A variational approach to brittle damage evolution

 

A. Garroni

 

Gamma-convergence of a phase field model for dislocations

 

R.D. James

 

Hysteresis and geometry: a way to search for new materials with "unlikely" physical properties

 

D. Kinderlehrer

 

Approaches to understanding interface evolution in polycrystals

 

S. Müller

 

A hierarchy of plate and shell theories derived from three-dimensional nonlinear elasticity by Gamma-convergence

 

M. Ortiz

 

Discrete Crystal Plasticity

 

F. Otto

 

Multiscale analysis in micromagnetics

 

D. Percivale

 

Regular and non regular solutions for elastic plastic beams and plates

 

P. Podio-Guidugli

 

Phenomenology of concentrated contact interactions in simple continuous bodies

 

L. Truskinovsky

 

Quasi-static deformation of a system with nonconvex energy from a perspective of dynamics

 

E. Virga

 

Phase Transitions in Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals

 

A. Visintin

 

Quasilinear Hyperbolic Equations with Hysteresis

 

 

 

 

LECTURE SCHEDULE






dates and timetable

lun-6

mar-7

mer-8

gio-9

ven-10

mon-6

tue-7

wed-8

thu-9

fri-10

9 - 9.50

Kinderlehrer

Francfort

Del Piero

Ambrosio

Otto

10 - 10.50

Fonseca

Fragalà

Garroni

Visintin

Braides

11- 11.30

coffee break

coffee break

coffee break

coffee break

coffee break

11.30 - 12.30

Chambolle

Podio-Guidugli

James

Ortiz

Müller

12.30 - 16.30

lunch break

lunch break

lunch break

lunch break

lunch break

16.30 - 17.20

Buttazzo

Bouchitté

trip to Aquileia departure at 14.30

Bhattacharya


17.30 - 18.20

Truskinovsky

Virga

Percivale


19.00 - 23.30

speakers dinner



social dinner


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