Models of materials physics constitute a classical motivation and field of application for nonlinear analysis. A central example of this interplay is the analysis of weakly differentiable manifold-valued maps. This conference will bring together mathematicians who work on models from materials science, and specialists of related objects in theoretical nonlinear analysis. It aims at promoting the newest questions and methods from both sides, and at strengthening the historically fruitful exchange of ideas between these two areas. It will also be the occasion to celebrate Petru Mironescu's 60th birthday and his numerous contributions to this field.
Speakers:
Elise Bonhomme (Brest)
Giacomo Canevari (Verona)
Antoine Detaille (ETH Zürich)
Òscar Domìnguez (CUNEF Madrid)
Maria Angeles Garcìa Ferrero (ICMAT Madrid)
Adriana Garroni (Rome)
Dmitry Golovaty (Akron)
Piotr Hajłasz (Pittsburgh)
Radu Ignat (Toulouse)
Antoine Lemenant (Nancy)
Giovanni Leoni (Carnegie Mellon)
Jean Mawhin (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Katarzyna Mazowiecka (Warsaw)
Mike Novack (Illinois Tech)
Adriano Pisante (Roma)
Augusto Ponce (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Rémy Rodiac (Nice)
Etienne Sandier (Créteil)
Lucia Scardia (Edinburgh)
Armin Schikorra (Pittsburgh)
Itai Shafrir (Haifa)
Anna Skorobogatova (ETH Zürich)
Dominik Stantejsky (Nancy)
Peter Sternberg (Indiana)
Gabriella Tarantello (Roma)
Jean Van Schaftingen (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Scientific committee
Fabrice Bethuel (Sorbonne), Yanyan Li (Rutgers), Petru Mironescu (Lyon), Sylvia Serfaty (NYU & Sorbonne)
Organizing committee
Lia Bronsard (McMaster), Luana Jost (Toulouse), Xavier Lamy (Toulouse), Emmanuel Russ (Marseille)