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14–17 Jul 2026
Palazzo del Castelletto
Europe/Rome timezone

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  1. 22. TBA
    Prof. Sergio Conti
    14/07/2026, 14:30
  2. 18. TBA
    Annika Bach (Eindhoven University of Technology)
    14/07/2026, 15:20
  3. 21. TBA
    Marco Cicalese (TU Munich)
    14/07/2026, 16:40
  4. 24. TBA
    Gianni Dal Maso (SISSA)
    15/07/2026, 10:00
  5. 19. TBA
    Roberta Marziani (Università degli studi di Siena)
    15/07/2026, 10:50
  6. 23. Phase-field approximation of sharp-interface energies accounting for lattice symmetry
    Vito Crismale (Sapienza Università di Roma)
    15/07/2026, 12:10

    The talk concerns a phase field approximation for sharp interface energies, defined on partitions, as appropriate for modeling grain boundaries in polycrystals. The label takes value in O(d)/G, where G is the point group of a lattice. The limiting surface energy behaves for small angles as s|log s|, according to the Read and Shockley law. These functionals can be used for image reconstruction...

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  7. 16. Quasiconvexity in the Riemannian setting
    Carlo Mantegazza (Università di Napoli Federico II)
    15/07/2026, 14:30
  8. 31. TBA
    Annalisa Massaccesi (Università degli studi di Padova)
    15/07/2026, 15:20
  9. 32. On the Minimisation of Nonlocal Interaction Energies
    Maria Giovanna Mora (Università di Pavia)
    15/07/2026, 16:40

    Nonlocal interaction energies play a central role in describing the collective behaviour of large particle systems in a wide range of applications. In this lecture we will focus on interactions that are short-range repulsive and long-range attractive. We will review the key results on the existence and uniqueness of minimisers, and present their explicit characterisation in the classical case...

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  10. 28. Is brittle fracture broken?
    Gilles Francfort (Flatiron Institue)
    16/07/2026, 10:00

    After nearly thirty years, the ``variational approach to fracture" is very much alive both in the mechanics and mathematical communities. Yet a host of issues are emerging that obfuscate the elegance of the original theory.

    I will review a few of those, show the shortcomings of the existing sharp theories and the additional hurdles introduced by the phase field approximations. I will...

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  11. 27. Stochastic homogenization of fractional obstacle problems
    Matteo Focardi (Università degli studi di Firenze)
    16/07/2026, 10:50
  12. 25. TBA
    Lucia De Luca (CNR, Roma)
    16/07/2026, 12:10
  13. 35. TBA
    Caterina Ida Zeppieri (Universität Münster)
    16/07/2026, 14:30
  14. 26. Beating filaments: from eukaryotic cilia to photo-responsive rods
    Antonio De Simone (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)
    16/07/2026, 15:50

    Spontaneous oscillations are observed across many natural and artificial systems. We present a comparative analysis of the chemo-mechanical mechanisms that drive spontaneous oscillations in two distinct active filamentous structures: photo-chemically deformable liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) rods and ATP-powered eukaryotic cilia.
    Using the unifying framework of active planar rods, we develop...

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  15. 20. Convergence of entropic transport energies
    Antonin Chambolle (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL)
    17/07/2026, 09:30
  16. 33. TBA
    Maria Pia Palombaro (Università degli Studi dell'Aquila)
    17/07/2026, 10:20
  17. 17. TBA
    Giovanni Alberti (Università di Pisa)
    17/07/2026, 11:40