Programme

Contemporary advances in nonlinear PDE and the Calculus of Variations

Programme

Venue

M112–113 (1st floor), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Pepper Lane, RG6 6AX

Monday, 10 July

Time Speaker Title
10:00 – 10:45 Bernard Dacorogna
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Darboux theorem, symplectic factorization and ellipticity
11:00 – 11:45 Nicholas Alikakos
University of Athens
On the triple junction problem on the plane without symmetry hypotheses
Coffee break
12:15 – 13:00 Enrique Zuazua
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Control and Machine Learning
Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Johannes Zimmer
Technical University of Munich
Fluctuations for nonlinear diffusion in a Hamilton-Jacobi setting
Coffee break
14:45 – 15:30 Jonathan Bevan
University of Surrey
Mean Hadamard inequalities
15:45 – 16:30 Konstantinos Koumatos
University of Sussex
Propagation of regularity and uniqueness for a Kelvin-Voigt model in viscoelasticity

Tuesday, 11 July

Time Speaker Title
10:00 – 10:45 Jan Kristensen
University of Oxford
Morrey's problem in classes of homogeneous integrands
11:00 – 11:45 Ali Taheri
University of Sussex
Gradient estimates, curvature conditions and Liouville theorems on smooth metricĀ  measure spaces
Coffee break
12:15 – 13:00 Federica Dragoni
Cardiff University
Horizontal Mean Curvature flow
Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Andrea Mondino
University of Oxford
Optimal Transport, weak Laplacian bounds and minimal boundaries in non-smooth spaces with Ricci curvature lower bounds
Coffee break
14:45 – 15:30 Vitaly Moroz
Swansea University
Thomas-Fermi type models of external charge screening in graphene
15:45 – 16:30 Ewelina Zatorska
Imperial College London
Analysis of PDE models of traffic and lubrication

Lunch and dinner

Lunches: In-house catering (Room M112).

Conference Dinner 10th of July: 6:00pm, Cosmo Restaurant, Friar St, Reading, RG1 1DX.
There will be shuttle service from outside the Maths Department starting at 5:30pm to take us to the town centre (and back).

Dinner 11th of July: 5:00pm, in-house catering (Room M112).