Variational methods in Material Science

10 October 2006 - 14 October 2006

Timetable

Date	Time	Speaker	Room
Tue 10 Oct	15:10- 16:05	James, Richard D. "New observations on the origins of hysteresis in phase transformations and metastability in the calculus of variations"	Aula Dini
	16:10- 17:05	Francfort, Gilles A. "Variational fracture and minimality"	Aula Dini
	17:30- 18:25	Friesecke, Gero "Minimum energy configurations of classical charges"	Aula Dini
Wed 11 Oct	9:30- 10:25	De Simone, Antonio "Liquid crystals elastomers: modeling, analysis, and simulation"	Aula Dini
	11:00- 11:55	Blanc, Xavier "Stochastic lattices and their macroscopic limits"	Aula Dini
	15:30- 16:25	Dal Maso, Gianni "Quasistatic evolution problems in plasticity with softening"	Aula Dini
	17:00- 17:55	Chambolle, Antonin "Rigid displacements with cracks"	Aula Dini
Thu 12 Oct	9:00- 9:55	Conti, Sergio "A sharp-interface limit for the singularly perturbed Eikonal functional"	Aula Dini
	10:00- 10:55	Braides, Andrea "Asymptotic analysis of binary discrete systems"	Aula Dini
	11:30- 12:25	Otto, Felix "A compactness result in micromagnetics"	Aula Dini
Fri 13 Oct	9:00- 9:55	Mueller, Stefan "tba"	Aula Dini
	10:00- 10:55	Garroni, Adriana "Variational methods for plasticity by homogenization of discrete dislocations"	Aula Dini
	11:30- 12:25	Tomarelli, Franco "A variational principle for plastic hinges"	Aula Dini
	15:30- 16:25	Del Piero, Gianpietro "Regularized descriptions of fracture"	Aula Dini
	17:00- 17:55	Fragalà, Ilaria "The compliance of thin plates: modelling and optimization"	Aula Dini
Sat 14 Oct	9:30- 10:25	Le Bris, Claude "Existence and uniqueness of solutions to Fokker-Planck type equations with irregular coefficients"	Aula Dini
	11:00- 11:55	Fonseca, Irene "Surfactants in foam stability: a phase field model"	Aula Dini