Ricordando Luciano
Modica
Dipartimento di
Matematica
Università di Pisa
November 8-9,
2021
organizers: G.
Alberti, G. Buttazzo, M.S. Gelli, M. Novaga
Lectures will take place in the Aula Magna of the Mathematics
Department [map] and will be streamed using Teams.
Registration is required, both for attending in presence and online:
The link to streaming will be sent to registered partecipants by email.
Program
[tentative,
last update:
October 14, 2021]
Monday, November 8
9.00 - 9.10 Opening
9.10 - 9.40 Margherita Galbiati (Università
di Pisa)
Il nostro dipartimento negli anni di
Luciano [in Italian]
9.40-10.10 Stefano Mortola (Politecnico di
Milano)
Il
mio grande debito verso Luciano [in Italian]
10.10-10.40 Gabriele Anzellotti
(Università di Trento)
L'idea
e la pratica dell'autonomia universitaria nell'azione di Luciano Modica
[in Italian]
coffee break
11.00-11.45 Gianni Dal
Maso (SISSA, Trieste)
New results on the jerky crack growth in
elasto-plastic materials [abstract]
11.45-12.30 Enrico Valdinoci (The University of Western
Australia)
Long-range interactions for the Allen-Cahn
equation [online]
lunch break
14.40-15.00 Bruno
Coppi (MIT)
Global concerns and the scientific
community:setbacks and successes
[online]
15.00-15.45 Irene Fonseca (Carnegie Mellon University)
Phase separation in heterogeneous media
[online] [abstract]
15.45-16.30 Sylvia Serfaty (New York University)
Ginzburg-Landau, old and new
[online]
coffee break
17.00-17.45 Giovanni
Bellettini (Università di Siena)
On a conjecture of De Giorgi on the first
variation of the Modica-Mortola functionals
Tuesday, November 9
9:00-9:45 Luigi
Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Recollections of Luciano and one more
Gamma-convergence result
9:45-10:30 Xavier Cabré
(ICREA & Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
Stable solutions to semilinear elliptic
equations are smooth up to dimension 9 [online] [abstract]
coffee break
11.00-11.45 Alessio
Figalli (ETH Zürich)
A De Giorgi-type result for boundary
reaction problems [online]
11.45-12.30 Stephan Luckhaus (Universität Leipzig)
Modelling epidemic diseases, which
insights can one gain
lunch break
15.00-15.45 Robert V. Kohn
(New York University)
The Kagome metamaterial [online]
15.45-16.30 Ovidiu
Savin (Columbia University, New York)
The multiple membrane problem
[online]
coffee break
17.00-17.45 Alberto
Farina (Université de Picardie, Amiens)
Il teorema più bello (secondo Luciano) [the talk will be
in English!]