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Programme

The activities will be organized around one-week minicourses, with daily lectures.
Go to the Abstracts page to see the topics of the minicourses.
Go to the Schedule page to see the weekly activities.

Minicourses at a glance

Amit Acharya (April 13-17): Continuum mechanical modeling of the dynamics of dislocations.
Roberto Alicandro (April 27-30): Metastability and dynamics of discrete topological singularities.
Andrea Braides (April 20-24): Topics in the passage discrete-to-continuum for lattice systems.
Marco Cicalese (April 20-24): Variational analysis of classical spin systems with discrete and continuous symmetries.
Sergio Conti (March 9-13): Relaxation of variational models in plasticity and nonlinear elasticity.
Gilles Francfort (May 4-8): A few questions in small strain elasto-plasticity: heterogeneity, conditions for the existence of plastic slips, and examples of uniqueness and non-uniqueness.
Adriana Garroni (February 23-27): Multi-scale analysis for dislocations: the phase field approximation of the line tension.
Alessandro Giacomini (May 4-8): SBV approach to shape optimization problems with Robin boundary conditions.
Cyril Imbert (March 9-13): Homogenization results for some models of dislocation dynamics.
Giovanni Leoni (May 11-15): Continuum models for dislocations.
Alexander Mielke (March 16-20): Mathematical approaches to finite-strain elastoplasticity
Marcello Ponsiglione (March 16-20): Gamma-convergence analysis for dislocations and vortices within the core radius approach.
Tomas Roubicek (March 2-6): Plasticity at small strains combined with damage.
Lucia Scardia (May 11-15): Multiscale problems in dislocation theory.
Ulisse Stefanelli (March 23-27): Gamma-convergence for rate-independent systems and linearization in finite plasticity.

Contributed talks at a glance

Marco Artina (March 20): A robust and efficient anisotropic mesh adaptation strategy to numerically simulate quasi-static crack propagation in brittle materials.
Jean-François Babadjian (April 15): Elasto-plasticity models in soil mechanics.
Mattia Bongini (March 19): Mean-field Pontryagin maximum principle.
Manuel Friedrich (March 24): A quantitative geometric rigidity result in SBD and the derivation of linearized models from nonlinear Griffith energies.
Gurgen (Greg) Hayrapetyan (March 4): Stability and Evolution of Bilayer Interfaces in Amphiphilic Systems.
Peter Hornung (April 23): Some remarks about intrinsically strained plates in nonlinear elasticity.
Flaviana Iurlano (May 13): An integral representation result in dimension 2 for functionals defined on SBD^p.
Martin Jesenko (March 26): Closure and commutability results for Γ-limits.
Carolin Kreisbeck (May 14): Homogenization of layered materials with rigid components in single-slip finite plasticity.
Matthias Ruf (March 11): Interfacial energies on stochastic lattices.
Riccardo Scala (February 26): A closeness result for the class of deformations in the presence of dislocations.
Igor Velcic (May 5): Non-periodic homogenization and dimensional reduction in non-linear elasticity in small strain regimes on the example of bending rod.

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