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

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  1. 22. TBA
    Sergio Conti
    14/07/2026, 14:30
  2. 21. Topological and geometric defects in discrete systems: Fractional vortices and partial dislocations" (Part I)
    Marco Cicalese (TU Munich)
    14/07/2026, 15:20
  3. 18. Topological and geometric defects in discrete systems: Fractional vortices and partial dislocations" (Part II)
    Annika Bach (Eindhoven University of Technology)
    14/07/2026, 16:40
  4. 24. TBA
    Gianni Dal Maso (SISSA)
    15/07/2026, 10:00
  5. 19. Wrinkling in the Lamé problem: a Γ-convergence approach
    Roberta Marziani (Università degli studi di Siena)
    15/07/2026, 10:50

    In this talk I will discuss the formation of wrinkling patterns in a thin elastic annulus subjected to radial stretching within the framework of the Föppl–von Kármán theory. In the limit of vanishing thickness, azimuthal compression develops in an inner region of the sheet, leading to highly oscillatory wrinkle patterns.

    After subtracting the relaxed membrane energy and performing a...

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  6. 23. Quasistatic cohesive-type crack growth
    Vito Crismale (Sapienza Università di Roma)
    15/07/2026, 12:10

    With Manuel Friedrich (JKU Linz), we proved the existence of globally stable quasistatic evolutions for cohesive-type crack energies in the SBVp framework.
    The crack path is not prescribed a priori nor subject to any topological restriction, and the result is valid in any dimension. This generalizes to a cohesive setting the existence result by Francfort and Larsen in 2003.

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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. Currents with coefficients in a group and branched transport problems
    Annalisa Massaccesi (Università degli studi di Padova)
    15/07/2026, 15:20

    In this seminar I will review the theory of flat G-chains, as they were introduced by H. W. Fleming in 1966, and currents with coefficients in groups with the aim of showing some recent applications to variants of the branched optimal transport. One development of the theory concerns its application to the Steiner tree problem and other minimal network problems which are related with a...

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  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. 35. Homogenisation of droplets in liquid-liquid phase-transitions
    Caterina Ida Zeppieri (Universität Münster)
    16/07/2026, 12:10

    We rigorously derive a sharp-interface model for the coexistence of multiple liquid phases in a domain containing a random distribution of small droplets, within which a prescribed phase is enforced. Starting from a diffuse-interface model of Modica–Mortola type, we prove that, under very general assumptions on the droplet distribution (modelled probabilistically by a stationary marked point...

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  13. 25. Asymptotic expansion of the relative s-fractional perimeter as s->0.
    Lucia De Luca (CNR, Roma)
    16/07/2026, 14:30

    We prove a first-order Gamma-convergence result for the relative s-fractional perimeter, as s->0, with respect to a given bounded set and prescribed exterior data. We investigate the robustness of our approach under perturbations of the exterior data and in the presence of volume constraints. We then use the Gamma-convergence expansion to study the asymptotic behavior of s-minimal sets as...

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  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