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:

Registration to attend in presence
Registration to attend 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!]