Evolution equations in Pure and Applied Sciences

Symposium in honour of Aldo Belleni Morante

Firenze, April 18th-19th, 2008

Second announcement

The Symposium features eight invited lectures held by

• Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)

  Variational formulations of gradient flows and optimal transportation

• Jacek Banasiak (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)

  Positivity, phase transitions and multiple solutions in linear dynamical systems: between modeling and mathematical analysis

• Constantine M. Dafermos (Brown University, Providence, USA)

  Progress in hyperbolic conservation laws

• Giuseppe Da Prato (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)

  On parabolic equations for measures

• Mariano Giaquinta (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)

  Ground states with cracks and related issues

• Adam C. McBride (Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland)

  Semigroups I have known

• Rainer Nagel (Universität Tübingen, Germany)

  Transport problems in networks

• Denis Serre (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France)

  Nonlinear Maxwell models and special relativity

The symposium is intended to present some aspects of evolution phenomena in pure and applied sciences and encourage further developments and collaborations among the participants. At the beginning, two special addresses will be dedicated to an overview of the scientific contributions by Aldo Belleni Morante.

Venue

Facoltà di Ingegneria, via. S. Marta, 3, (I)-50139, Firenze.

Participation

No grants for supporting participants are available. Please look at this page for practical informations. Please write to one of the members of the scientific committee to confirm your participation:

• Giovanni Frosali (Università di Firenze) giovanni.frosali_at_unifi.it

• Paolo Maria Mariano (Università di Firenze) paolo.mariano_at_unifi.it

• Giuseppe Modica (Università di Firenze) giuseppe.modica_at_unifi.it

Poster

You can see or download a poster with the second announcement of the meeting.

Schedule

You can download the schedule of the meeting.

Organization and support

The meeting is organized by the Facoltà di Ingegneria, the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale and the Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata `̏̏G. Sansone˝ of the Università di Firenze. At the present time we acknowledge the support of

• Facoltà di Ingegneria,

• Università Italo-Francese, UIF/UFI,

• Gruppo Nazionale Fisica-Matematica, GNFM (IndaM),

• Gruppo Nazionale per l'Analisi Matematica, la Probabilita' e le loro Applicazioni, GNAMPA (IndaM).

We look forward to see you in Firenze.