Program of the Workshop on
"Geometric Measure Theory and Calculus of Variations"
Sardagna (Trento, Italy), April 7-9, 2003
Monday, April 7
9.30
Opening
9.40-10.30 M. Giaquinta: "Limits of sequences of mappings
into Riemmannian manifolds with equibounded energies"
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-11.50 F. Morgan: "The double bubble theorem"
12.00-12.50 Z. Balogh: "Characteristic sets and Hausdorff measures
in the Heisenberg group"
13.00 Lunch
16.00-16.50 B. Franchi: "Rectifiability in step 2 Carnot groups"
16.50-17.20 Coffee break
17.20-18.10 G. Alberti: "Structure of null sets in the plane, and
some applications to Geometric Measure Theory"
19.30 Dinner
Tuesday, April 8
9.00-9.50 G. David: "Hausdorff dimension of uniformly
non flat sets with topology"
10.00-10.50 J. Fu: "Ropelength-minimizing and ropelength-critical
curves"
10.50-11.20 Coffee break
11.20-12.10 B. Kirchheim: "Multi well problems and shape memory
materials"
12.20-12.50 T. De Pauw: “Smooth submanifolds, density ratios
and almost area minimizing integral currents”
13.00 Lunch
16.00-16.30 V. Magnani: "Characteristic points of stratified
groups"
16.35-17.05 D. Cohen-Steiner: “Approximation of curvature
measures of a smooth surface in R^3”
17.05-17.35 Coffee break
17.35-18.05 A. Bernig: “A proof of Schlaefli’s formula with
normal cycles”
18.10-18.40 D. Smets: “Convergence of the parabolic Ginzburg-Landau
equation to motion by mean curvature”
20.00 Dinner
Wednesday, April 9
9.00-9.50 L. Ambrosio: "Transport equation
and Cauchy problem for BV vector fields"
10.00-10.50 P. Mattila: "Singular integrals and rectifiability"
10.50-11.20 Coffee break
11.20-12.10 Y. Burago: "Asymptotic behaviour of some
polyhedral length spaces"
12.10
Closure
12.30 Lunch