Events

• April-Juli: Giovanni-Prodi-Professur with Bianca Stroffolini, theme: Calculus of Variations
• Wed, 26.06.2024 at 09:50 am: Mathias Schaeffner, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Regularity for nonuniformly elliptic equations
• Thu, 02.05.2024 at 11am: Giacomo Canevari, University of Verona, Italy
  A free-discontinuity problem for smectic liquid crystals
• 08.-12.04.2024: Spring School 2024 "Mathematical Advances for Complex Materials with Microstructures"
• 03.-05. 04.2024: STAMM 2024 der Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics e. V. (ISIMM)

Due to a research semester of the chair holder Prof Dr Schlömerkemper, no events took place.

• Do, 06. 07.2023 um 10:15 Uhr: Jesse Ratzkin, Julius-Maximilian-Universität, Würzburg, Compactness of singular constant Q-curvature metric on punctured spheres
• Do, 14./15. und 21./22. 06.2023, Apala Majumdar, University of Strathclyde,  Nematic Liquid Crystals: A Playground for Mathematics and Applications
• Do. 25.05.2023 um 10:15 Uhr: Francesco de Anna, Julius-Maximilian-Universität, Würzburg, Quantitative aspects on the ill-posedness of the Prandtl and hyperbolic Prandtl Equations
• Do, 27.04.2023 um 11:00 Uhr: Valentin Calisti, Institute of Mathematics CAS, Praha, Czech Republic, Shape sensitivity of a stationary 2D fluid-structure interaction problem
• Do, 27.04.2023 um 10:00 Uhr: Martin Kalousek, Institute of Mathematics CAS, Praha, Czech Republic, Existence of weak solutions for a compressible, multi-component fluid structure interaction problem

• Do, 06. 07.2023 um 10:15 Uhr: Jesse Ratzkin, Julius-Maximilian-Universität, Würzburg, Compactness of singular constant Q-curvature metric on,punctured spheres
• Do, 14./15. und 21./22. 06.2023, Apala Majumdar, University of Strathclyde,  Nematic Liquid Crystals: A Playground for Mathematics and Applications
• Do. 25.05.2023 um 10:15 Uhr: Francesco de Anna, Julius-Maximilian-Universität, Würzburg, Quantitative aspects on the ill-posedness of the Prandtl and hyperbolic Prandtl Equations
• Do, 27.04.2023 um 11:00 Uhr: Valentin Calisti, Institute of Mathematics CAS, Praha, Czech Republic, Shape sensitivity of a stationary 2D fluid-structure interaction problem
• Do, 27.04.2023 um 10:00 Uhr: Martin Kalousek, Institute of Mathematics CAS, Praha, Czech Republic, Existence of weak solutions for a compressible, multi-component fluid structure interaction problem
• Do, 16.02.2023 um 14:15 Uhr: Jesse Ratzkin, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Foliations of an asymptotically flat end by critical capacitors
• Do, 19.01.2023 um 14:15 Uhr: Stefan Metzger, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, The SAV method for phase-field models with dynamic boundary conditions
• Do, 12.01.2023 um 14:15 Uhr: Francesco De Anna, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Gevrey-class-3 Regularity of an hyperbolic Extension of the Prandtl Equations
• Do, 22.12.2022 um 13:15 Uhr: Malte Kampschulte, Charles University, Prague, Variational approaches to dynamical problems in continuum mechanics
• Do, 08.12.2022 um 14:15 Uhr: Petr Pelech, WIAS Berlin, Germany, Balanced-Viscosity solutions for a Penrose-Fife model with rate-independent friction
• Do, 01.12.2022 um 14:15 Uhr: Francesco Esposito, University of Calabria, Italy, Symmetry results via the moving planes method
• Do, 10.11.2022 um 14:45 Uhr: Marco Bresciani, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, Existence results in magnetoelasticity   
• Do, 10.11.2022 um 13:30 Uhr: Stefano Scrobogna, University of Trieste, Italy,  Asymptotic models for the Muskat problem

• Tue, 02.08.2022 at 10am: Arnab Roy, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), Spain, Motion of a Rigid body in a Compressible Fluid with Navier-slip boundary condition
• Tue, 12.07.2022 at 10am: Azahara DelaTorre Pedraza. Sapienza Universit`a di Roma,     The fractional Yamabe problem with singularities
• Tue, 05.07.2022 at 10am: Ignace Minlend. Goethe University Frankfurt, On an electrostatic problem and a new class of exceptional subdomains of R³
• Tue, 05.07.2022 at 9am: Barbora Benešová, Department of mathematical analysis, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
  Charles University, Prague,                                                                                                                 A variational approach to fluid structure interaction
• Tue, 21.06.2022 at 10am: Anoumou Attiogbe, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Mbour, Senegal, Nonlocal diffusion of smooth sets
• Tue, 03.05.2022 at 11am: Francesco de Anna,  University of Würzburg, Recent developments on the Ericksen-Leslie theory for the flow of nematic liquid crystals

• Do, 27.01.2022 um 14:30 Uhr: Yasemin Sengül, Cardiff University, UK, Strain and stress-rate type viscoelastic models in the context of implicit constitutive theory
• Do, 20.01.2022 um 14.30 Uhr: Boris Muha, University of Zagreb, Analysis of Moving Boundary Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems Arising in Hemodynamics
• Do, 16.12.2021 um 14.30 Uhr: Jan-Eric Sulzbach, llinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Well-Posedness of a non-isothermal Cahn-Hilliard system
• Do, 25.11.2021 um 14.30 Uhr: Luisa Bachmann, University of Würzburg, Rank-one convexity and quasiconvexity for two-component functions
• Do, 11.11.2021 um 14.30 Uhr: Martin Kružı́k, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences), Equilibrium for Multiphase Solids with Eulerian Interfaces
• Do, 28.10.2021 um 14.30 Uhr: Sourav Mitra, University of Würzburg, Control of a compressible FSI model
• Do, 21.10.2021 um 14.30 Uhr: Thuyen Dang, University of Houston, A simplified model for magnetorheological fluid and its corresponding effective system

• Wed, 14.07.2021 at 14.15: Rayssa Caju (University of Chicago), On the singular Q-curvature problem
• Wed, 07.07.2021 at 14.15 : Jendrik Voss (Universität Duisburg-Essen), Morrey’s conjecture for the planar volumetric-isochoric split
• Wed, 30.06.2021 at 14.15: João Henrique Santos de Andrade (USP Instituto de Matemática e Estatı́stica Departamento de Matemática), Qualitative properties for solutions to subcritical fourth order systems
• Wed, 16.06.2021 at 14.15: Martin Kalousek (Institute of Mathematics, Czech Academy of Sciences), Navier-Stokes equations: Introduction, mathematical theory and a recent existence result
• Wed, 09.06.2021 at 14:15: Patrik Knopf (Universität Regensburg), On Cahn-Hilliard models with dynamic boundary conditions and their underlying elliptic problems with bulk-surface coupling
• Wed, 05.05.2021 at 14:15: Hao Wu (School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University), On a Sixth-order Cahn-Hilliard Type Equation with Logarithmic Potential
• Wed, 21.04.2021 at 14.15: Chun Liu  (Department of Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology), Energetic Variational Approaches in Active Materials: Boundary and Temperature Effects

• Thu, 11.02.2021 um 14.15: Jesse Ratzkin (Institute of Mathematics, University of Würzburg), Compactness of constant Q-curvature metrics on punctured spheres
• Thu, 04.02.2021 um 14:15: Francesco Fanelli (Institute Camille Jordan, Université de Lyon), Viscous compressible fluids with discontinuous densities: old and new
• Wed, 13.01.2021 um 10.15: Yuning Liu (NYU Shanghai), Sharp interface limits of some diffusive interface models
• Thu, 17.12.2020 um 14.15: Ewelina Zatorska (Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London), On the Existence of Solutions to the Two-Fluids Systems
• Thu, 10.12.2020 um 14:15: Alicja Kerschbaum (Department Mathematik, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg),Symmetry breaking for local/nonlocal interaction functionals in diffuse formulation
• Thu, 19.11.2020 um 14.15: Stefano Scrobogna (Instituto de Matemáticas de la Universidad de Sevilla),  On the effect of viscosity in surface gravity waves
• Thu, 12.11.2020 um 14.15: Giuliano Lazzaroni (Università degli Studi di Firenze), The wave equation on a time-dependent interval and the problem of dynamic debonding
• Thu, 05.11.2020 um 14.15: Helmer Hoppe (TU Dresden), Homogenization of Rapidly Oscillating Manifolds and Γ-Convergence of Integral Functionals with non-Standard Growth

• Fri, 24.07.2020 at 15:00: Tao Huang (Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University Detroit), Weak compactness of simplified nematic liquid flows in 2D
• Fri, 17.07.2020 at 09:00: Barbora Benešová (Department of Mathematical Analysis, Charles University of Prague), Non-interpenetration in thin films
• Fri, 10.07.2020 at 10:15: Arianna Giunti (Institute for Applied Mathematics, University of Bonn), Homogenization in randomly perforated domains
• Fri, 03.07.2020 at 15:00: Justin T. Webster (University of Maryland, Baltimore Country), Mathematical Aeroelasticity: Well-posedness and Long-time Behavior of Flow-Structure Interactions
• Fri, 19.06.2020 at 15:00: Yiwei Wang (Institute of Technology, Illinois), A Discrete Energetic Variational Approach to Generalized Diffusions, Gradient flows and Beyond
• Fri, 12.06.2020 at 13:30: Dirk Praetorius (Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing, TU Wien), Chiral magnetic skyrmions and computational micromagnetism
• Fri, 05.06.2020 at 10:15: Alexander Mielke (WIAS Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Gradient systems and evolutionary Γ-convergence
• Fri, 29.05.2020 at 10:15: Bianca Stroffolini (Università Federico II, Naples, Italy),  A free boundary problem for smectics
• Fri, 22.05.2020 at 10.15: Giuseppe Tomassetti (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Shape programming of a magnetic elastica
• Fri, 15.05.2020 at 15.00: Jan-Eric Sulzbach (Department of Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology), Temperature effects and Ideal Gas Stokes flo

• Fri, 10.01.2020 at 12.00: René Wittmann (Universität Düsseldorf), Density functional theory for complex fluids
• Fri, 13.12.2019 at 12.00: Hans-Dieter Alber (TU Darmstadt), The hybrid phase field models

• Thu, 21.02.2019 at 09.00: Günther Grün (FAU Erlangen- Nürnberg), On the field-inducted transport of magnetic nanoparticles in incompressible fluid flow
• Fri, 15.02.2019 at 10:30: Sabine Jansen (LMU München), Surface energy and boundary layers for a chain of atoms at low temperature
• Thu, 07.02.2019 at 10:30, Nihat Ay (MPI für Mathematik. in den Naturwissenschaften, Leipzig), Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence
• Fr, 01.02.2019 at 10:30, Marco Cicalese (TU München), Chirality transitions in magnetic materials

• Tue. 23.01.2018 at 10:15: Hans Knüpfer (University of Heidelberg), Optimal shape of isolated ferromagnetic domains
• Tue. 05.12.2017 at 10:00: Closing workshop of a joint DAAD-AVČR-projekt between Prague and Würzburg, Elasticity and Passages from Discrete to Continuous Systems
• Tue. 10.10.2017 at 09:15: Johannes Diermeier (University of Bonn), Korn-Poincaré inequalities and energy density for a subspace of SBD^p

• Fri. 21.07.2017 at 10:30: Alessandra Pluda (University of Regensburg), Calibrations for minimal networks in a covering space setting
• Fri. 14.07.2017 at 10:30: Thilo Simon (MPI Leipzig), Rigidity of branching microstructures in shape memory alloys
• Fri. 14.07.2017 at 09:30: Petr Pelech (Charles University, Prague), The Peridynamic Stress Tensors and the Non-local to Local Passage
• Fri. 23.06.2017 at 10:30: Philipp Junker (University of Bochum), Variational Methods in Material Modeling: Applications of Hamilton's Principle
• Fri. 09.06.2017 at 10:30: Riccardo Cristoferi (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh), Equilibria configurations for epitaxial crystal growth with adatoms
• Fri. 02.06.2017 at 10:30: Manuel Friedrich (University of Vienna), On the passage from nonlinear to linearized viscoelasticity
• Fri. 05.05.2017 at 10:30: Josef Žabenský (Charles University in Prague), On power-law fluids with the power-law index proportional to the pressure
• Fri. 28.04.2017 at 09:30: Marcello Carioni (University of Würzburg), A coarea-type formula for the Mumford-Shah functional in dimension one

• Fri. 10.02.2017 at 10:30: Martin Kružík (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, The Czech Academy of Sciences), Optimal control of dynamical systems with oscillations, concentrations, and discontinuities
• Thu. 26.01.2017 at 08:45: Šarká Nečasová (Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic ), Rigorous derivation of the equations describing objects called “accretion disk”
• Fri. 13.01.2017 at 10:30: Miroslav Bulíček (Charles University in Prague), Existence analysis for incompressible fluid model of electrically charged chemically reacting and heat conducting mixtures
• Fri. 18.11.2016 at 10:00: Martin Kalousek (Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland), On homogenization of stationary flows of incompressible non-Newtonian fluids
• Fri. 21.10.2016 at 10:30: Petr Pelech (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague) , The Γ-limit of linear peridynamics when the horizon tends to zero

• Fri. 15.07.2016 at 10:30: Daniel Wachsmuth (University of Würzburg), Optimal control of a rate-independent evolution equation via viscous regularization
• Fri. 08.07.2016 at 10:30: Paul Steinmann (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), On Generalized Mechanical Interfaces
• Fri. 01.07.2016 at 10:30: Martin Kružík (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences, Currently:Giovanni-Prodi-Professorship, University of Würzburg), Quasistatic adhesive contact delaminating in mixed mode and its numerical treatment
• Fri. 17.06.2016 at 10:30: Julian Braun (Universität Augsburg), Connecting Atomistic and Continuum Models of Nonlinear Elastodynamics
• Fri. 10.06.2016 at 10:30: Marita Thomas (WIAS Berlin), Coupling rate-independent and rate-dependent processes: Delamination models in visco-elastodynamics
• Fri. 20.04.2016 at 10:30: Carlos J. Garcia-Cervera (University of California, Santa Barbara), Pattern formation in Smectic A liquid Crystals
• Di., 12.04.2016 at 15:00: Dorothee Knees, (University of Kassel), Discussion of different time-discretization schemes for rate-independent damage models

Oberseminar Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften

• • Fri. 22.02.2016 at 12:00: Andrea Braides (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy), Discrete-to-continuum variational methods"
  • Fri, 08.01.2016 at 12:00: Angkana Rüland (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford), Rigidity, Non-rigidity and Scaling for the Cubic-to-Orthorhombic Phase Transformation
  • Fri, 11.12.2015 at 12:00: Miroslav Bulíček (Mathematical Institute of Charles University Prague), Limiting strain models in elasticity theory and variational integrals with linear growth
  • Fri, 20.11.2015 at 12:00: Gudrun Reichenauer (Bayerisches Forschungszentrum für Angewandte Energieforschung (ZAE), Würzburg), Nanoporous Materials for Energy Technology
  • Fri, 23.10.2015 at 12:00: Maria Stella Gelli (Università di Pisa), Relaxation of surface energies in capillarity problems
  • Fri, 16.10.2015 at 12:00:Josef Žabenský (Universität Würzburg), On a generalization of the Darcy-Forchheimer equation

Summer semester 2015

Oberseminar Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften

• Fri, 29.05.2015 at 11:00: Malte Kampschulte (RWTH Aachen), Gradient Flows in (Cartesian) Currents
• Mon, 22.06.2015 at 11:00: Bianca Stroffolini (Universita di Napoli "Federico II"), Glimpses on Lipschitz truncations and regularity

Winter semester 2014/15

Oberseminar Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften

• 14.11.2014 at 12:00: Martin Kružík (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), Quasistatic evolution of magnetoelastic plates via dimension reduction
• 28.11.2014 at 12:00: Emma D'Aniello (Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italia), Continuous self-maps, iterated function schemes, and their attractors
• 05.12.2014 at 12:15: Patrick van Meurs (University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands), Discrete-to-continuum upscaling of dislocation walls
• 09.01.2015 at 12:15: Bernd Kirchheim (Institut für Mathematik, Universität Leipzig), Selfimproving convexity and Orstein's L-one noninequalities
• 13.01.2015 at 12:15 in 30.02.003: Giovanni Bonaschi (University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands), Quadratic and rate-independent limits for a large-deviations functional
• 20.01.2015 at 12:15 in 30.02.003: Marco Bonacini (University of Heidelberg), Minimality results for nonlocal variational problems

Summer semester 2014

Oberseminar Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften

• 11.04.2014 at 12:00: Michael Goldman (MPI für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften Leipzig), Epitaxially strained crystalline films: Scaling regimes and reduced models
• 25.04.2014 at 12:00: Jana Hümpfer (Lehrstuhl für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften der Universität Würzburg), Vandermonde-Matrizen und transientes Verhalten
• 09.05.2014 at 12:00: Sergio Conti (University of Bonn), Relaxation of variational problems from nonlinear elasticity
• 20.05.2014 at 11:00 in 40.02.007: Barbora Benesova (Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik und Naturwissenschaften der RWTH Aachen), Quasiconvexity conditions when minimizing over homeomorphisms in the plane
• 23.05.2014 at 10:00: Anna Zhigun (TU Munich), Biofilm models with various nonlinear effects: well-posedness and long-time behaviour
• Monday 26.05.2014 at 09:00: Jonas Tölle (U Bielefeld), Singuläre stochastische Evolutionsgleichungen
• Tuesday 27.05.2014 at 12:15: Martin Heida (TU Dortmund), Non-periodic homogenization of Prandtl-Reuss plasticity
• 30.05.2014 at 12:00: Hari Shankar Mahato (U Erlangen Nuremberg), Homogenization of a system of multi-species semilinear diffusion-reaction equations and moving boundary problem
• 06.06.2014 at 12:00: Julian Fischer (Institut für Mathematik Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Zürich), A posteriori modeling error estimates for the assumption of perfect incompressibility in the Navier-Stokes equation
• 11.07.2014 at 12:00: Manfred Requardt (University of Göttingen), The Continuum Limit of Discrete Geometries
• Wednesday 16.07.2014 at 10:15 in BSZ S1.104: Carolin Kreisbeck (WIAS Berlin, University of Regensburg), Thin-film limits of functionals on A-free vector fields
• Wednesday 16.07.2014 at 11:15 in BSZ S1.104: Mathias Schäffner (University of Würzburg), Plates in non-Euclidean elasticity

Winter semester 2013/14

• Winter School "Calculus of Variations in Physics and Material Scienes" (10.-14.02.2014)

Oberseminar Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften

• 25.10.2013 at 12:00: Peter Embacher (University of Würzburg), About a variational evolution of one-dimensional Lennard-Jones systems
• 08.11.2013 at 12:00: Carolin Kreisbeck (University of Regensburg), Relaxation of models in finite plasticity with two active slip systems
• Mi, 13.11.2013 at 14:00 in the BSZ-Building, S0.107: Celia Reina (University of Pennsylvania), Understanding plastic material models via multiscale mathematical analyses
• Mo, 16.12.2013 at 10:00 in the BSZ-Building, S0.106: Matthew Mata (University of California, Santa Barbara), Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Polymer / Liquid Crystal Blends
• Mo, 16.12.2013 at 11:00 in the BSZ-Building, S0.106: Jingrun Chen (University of California, Santa Barbara), Multiscale modeling of spin transfer torques in ferromagnetic mulitlayers
• 31.01.2014 at 12:00: Georg Dolzmann (University of Regensburg), Quasiconvex hulls of sets and envelopes of functions in the calculus of variations

Summer semester 2013

Oberseminar Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Fr 12-14, SE 40 (falls nicht anders angekündigt)

• 26.04.2013 at 11:00: Maria Giovanna Mora (University of Pavia), A quasistatic evolution model for perfectly plastic plates derived by Gamma-convergence
• 26.04.2013 at 12:00: Luca Rondi (University of Trieste), A free-discontinuity approach to inverse problems
• 03.05.2013 at 12:00: Tim Hoheisel (Lehrstuhl für Mathematik VII (Numerische Mathematik und Optimierung), University of Würzburg), Epi-convergent Smoothing with Applications to Convex Composite Functions
• 17.05.2013 at 12:00: Bernd Schmidt (University of Augsburg), On the passage from atomistic to continuum systems in elasticity and fracture mechanics
• 24.05.2013 at 12:00: Daniel Lopez (Zentrum für Infektionsforschung), Biofilms; cities of microbes
• 28.05.2013 at 10:00: Chun Liu (Penn State University), Ionic Fluids and Their Transport: From Kinetic Descriptions to Continuum Models
• 28.05.2013 at 11:00: Giuliano Lazzaroni (Lehrstuhl für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, University of Würzburg), Dislocations in nanowire heterostructures: from discrete to continuum
• 28.06.2013 at 12:00: Johannes Forster (Lehrstuhl für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, University of Würzburg), Mathematical Modeling of Magnetic Complex Fluids
• 31.07.2013 at 14:00: Carlos Garcia-Cervera (University of California, Santa Barbara), Numerical advances in Self-Consistent Field Theory simulations of block copolymers: Applications to polymer lithography and evaporation-driven pattern selection

Summer semester 2012

Oberseminar Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Fridays at 12:00, room: Mathematik Ost, 30.02.003 if not announced differently

• 20.04.2012: Franziska Weber (ETH Zürich), A model for capturing turbulent compressible flow
• 27.04.2012: Chun Liu (Penn State University & Prodi-Professor), Energetic variational approach: generalized diffusion, stochastic differential equations and optimal transport
• 04.05.2012: Martin Kruzik (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Prague & Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), An efficient approach to the numerical solution of nonconvex variational problems
• 25.05.2012: Roberto Alicandro (University of Cassino), A variational model of interaction between continuum and discrete systems
• 25.05.2012 (at 14:00 / 02:00pm): Marcello Ponsiglione (University of Rome La Sapienza), A Gamma-convergence analysis for edge dislocations in two dimensions
• 01.06.2012: Mathias Schäfner (Lehrstuhl für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Universität Würzburg), Gamma-convergence approach to the Quasicontinuum method
• 01.06.2012 (at 14:00 / 02:00pm): Anja Schlömerkemper (Lehrstuhl für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Universität Würzburg), Non-laminate Microstructures in Monoclinic-I Martensite
• 15.06.2012: Caterina Ida Zeppieri (Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Uni Bonn), Gradient theories for plasticity as the Gamma-limit of a nonlinear dislocation energy
• 19.06.2012 (Tuesday) at 2:00pm: James Adler (Department of Mathematics, Tufts University, USA), First-Order System Least-Squares, Multigrid, and Adaptive Local Refinement for Complex Fluids
• 29.06.2012: Vincenzo Nesi (Sapienza, Universitá di Roma), Planar Harmonic Diffeomorphisms
• 06.07.2012: Carlos J. Garcia-Cervera (University of California, Santa Barbara), Layer Undulations in Smectic Liquid Crystals
• 20.07.2012: Ya-Guang Wang (Shanghai Jiaotong University), Study on Boundary Layers

Winter semester 2011/12

• Winter school on "Calculus of Variations in Physics and Materials Science" (08.-13.01.2012)

Oberseminar Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften

• 17.11.2011: Florian Theil (University of Warwick), Periodic ground states in two and three dimensions
• 24.11.2011: Marita Thomas (WIAS Berlin), Delamination in viscoelastic materials with thermal effects
• 01.12.2011: Rainer Heinen (Ruhr-Univerität Bochum, ThssenKrupp Steel Europe AG), Modeling the Material Behavior of Shape Memory Alloys - Energy Formulation, Relaxation and Model Derivation
• 08.12.2011: Malena Espanol (California Institute of Technology), A Gamma-convergence analysis of the quasicontinuum method
• 18.01.2012: Alois Kufner (University of Wüzburg), The Hardy Inequality and Spectraltheory
• 19.01.2012: Giovianni Bonaschi (Eindhoven University of Technology), Gradient Flows driven by a non-smooth repulsive interaction potential
• 24.01.12: Giuliano Lazzaroni (University of Würzburg), A toy model for dynamic debonding
• 02.02.2012: Mariapia Palombaro (University of Würzburg), Higher gradient integrability for two-phase conductivities in dimension two

Summer semester 2011

Oberseminar Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften:

• 10. Mai 2011: Oliver Krimmel, Cohomology Groups of Sustitution Tilings
• 24. Mai 2011: Mathias Schäffner (Universität Leipzig), Stabilität von Flüssigkeitsschichten
• 21. Juni 2011: Thomas Blesgen (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Leipzig), On isothermal phase field models incorparating geometrically linear elasticity
• 28.6.11: Giuliano Lazzaroni (Universität Würzburg), Some models of quasistatic growth in brittle fracture
• 5.7.11: Ujjwal Koley (Universität Würzburg), A survey of recent results on convection equations with degenerate diffusion, on Korteweg de Vries equation and on magnetic induction equations
• 14.7.11: Alfio Borzi (Universität Würzburg), On PDE optimization with uncertainty
• 26.7.11: Christian Klingenberg (Universität Würzburg), A survey of recent work on numerical methods for magnetohydrodynamics, on conservation laws with a discontinuous flux and on hydrodynamic limits from particle systems to PDEs of conservation laws
• 28.7.11: Anja Schlömerkemper (Universität Würzburg), About some mathematical aspects of materials science