• Elisabetta Rocca (PI)
• Riccardo Scala (Post-Doc May 2015 - August 2016)
  
• Sergio Frigeri (Post-Doc June 2011 - September 2015)
• Michela Eleuteri (Post-Doc September 2012 - September 2013)

Project summary:

The ground-breaking nature of the project relies on the possibility of opening new horizons with a novel mathematical formulation of physical problems.
The project aim is indeed to obtain relevant mathematical results in order to get further insight into new models for phase transitions and the corresponding evolution PDE systems. The new approach presented here turns out to be particularly helpful within the investigation of issues like as existence, uniqueness, control, and long-time behavior of the solutions for such evolutionary PDEs.

Moreover, the importance of the opportunity to apply such new theory to phase transitions lies in the fact that such phenomena arise in a variety of applied problems like, e.g., melting and freezing in solid-liquid mixtures, 
phase changes in solids, crystal growth, soil freezing, damage in elastic materials,plasticity, food conservation, collisions, and so on. From the practical viewpoint,
the possibility to describe these phenomena in a quantitative way has deeply influenced the technological development of our society, stimulating the related mathematical interest.

• Reports

• Dissemination

• Analysis of Boundary Value Problems for PDEs. An afternoon in honor of Gianni Gilardi on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Pavia, February 20, 2017. Organized with Elena Bonetti (Milano)and Giulio Schimperna (Pavia).
  

• Special Afternoon on Diffuse Interface Models and Related Problems, February 7, 2017. IMATI-CNR, Pavia. Organized with Pierluigi Colli (Pavia) and Laura Spinolo (Imati-Pavia).
  

• INDAM-ISIMM Workshop Trends on Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics,
  Rome, September 5-9, 2016. Organized with Ulisse Stefanelli (Wien), Lev Truskinovsky (Paris), A. Visintin (Trento).

• Indam Meeting - OCERTO 2016  - Optimal Control for Evolutionary PDEs and Related Topics,
  Palazzone, Cortona (Arezzo), Italy, June 20-24, 2016. Organized with P. Colli (Pavia), A. Favini (Bologna), and J. Spreleks (Berlin).
  

• ERC Workshop - MoMatFlu
  - Modeling materials and fluids using variational methods - WIAS in Berlin, February 22-26, 2016. Organized with A. Mielke (Berlin).

• Perspectives in Applied PDEs: a day in Pavia, Pavia, February 9, 2016

• Workshop PDE2015 - Theory and Applications of Partial Differential Equations
  WIAS - Berlin - November 30–December 4, 2015.
  Organized with Hans-Christoph Kaiser, Dorothee Knees, Alexander Mielke, Joachim Rehberg,
  Marita Thomas and Enrico Valdinoci.

• CIME Course on ``Mathematical Thermodynamics of complex fluids''
  June 29 - July 3, 2015 - Cetraro (CS), Italy. Organized with E. Feireisl (Prague).

• Indam-ERC Workshop  ``Special materials in complex systems'', INDAM, Rome - May 18-22, 2015. Organized with Elena Bonetti (Pavia), Cecilia Cavaterra (Milano), and Riccarda Rossi (Brescia).

• Special Session ``Applied analysis'' of the GAMM 86th Annual Scientific Conference - Lecce, Italy, March 23, 2015 – March 27, 2015. Organized with Maurizio Grasselli (Polimi) and Dorothee Knees (Kassel).

• Special Session ``Variational energy and entropy approaches in non-smooth thermomechanics'' of the 10th-AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, July 07 - July 11, 2014, Madrid. Organized with E. Bonetti (Pavia).
  

• RIPE60 -- Rate Independent Processes and Evolution -- Workshop on the occasion of  Pavel Krejci 60th birthday, Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague,  June 24 -- 26, 2014. Organized with E. Feireisl (Prague). Download the poster.
  

• International Conference: ``Two Days Workshop on LC-flows'', IMATI, CNR, Pavia, March 24 - 25, 2014. Organized  with A. Segatti (Pavia).
  

• CIRM-ERC Workshop "DIMO-2013" Diffuse Interface Models, Levico Terme (Italy)
  September 10-13, 2013. Organized with P. Colli and G. Schimperna (Pavia).

• Minisymposium MS13 – Coupled variants of the Cahn-Hilliard equation, at the EQUADIFF13, Prague, August 26 – 30, 2013.

• International School on ``Recent advances in partial differential equations and applications''
  University of Milan, Department of Mathematics, Milano, June 17 -- 22, 2013. Coordinated with E. Valdinoci (Milano). 

• Spring School on "Rate-independent evolutions and hysteresis modelling", Milano, May 27 -- 31, 2013. Coordinated with S. Bosia, M. Eleuteri, and E. Valdinoci (Milano).
  

• International Workshop: PDEs for multiphase advanced materials (ADMAT2012), Cortona, Arezzo, September 17-21, 2012. Organized with E. Bonetti and P. Colli (Pavia).

• International Conference “Interfaces and discontinuities in solids, liquids and crystals” - INDI2011, Palazzo Feltrinelli - Gargnano (Brescia) - June 20-23, 2011. Organized with E. Bonetti (Pavia), C. Cavaterra (Milano), and R. Rossi (Brescia). 
  

• Dietmar Hoemberg - WIAS, Berlin, Germany
  November 8-17, 2011

• Arghir Zarnescu - University of Sussex, UK
  November 27 - December 2, 2011

• Eduard Feireisl - Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
  February 13 - 17, 2012

• Alain Miranville - University of Poitiers, France
  February 27 - March 4, 2012

• Hao Wu - Fudan University, China
  April 12 - April 14, 2012  and  April 20 - April 27, 2012

• Gabriela Marinoschi, Iasi, Romania, July 20-22, 2012 and October 30-31, 2012

• Eduard Feireisl, Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, November 19-23, 2012
  

• Christiane Kraus and Christian Heinemann, WIAS, Berlin, Germany, November 26-30, 2012

• Michel Cristofol - University of Aix-Marseille (France), and Elena Beretta, Universita' di Roma la  Sapienza (Italy), January 14-18, 2013

• Pavel Krejci - Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, March 4-8, 2013

• Michel Fremond - Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, March 18-21, 2013

• Eduard Feireisl, Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 19-25, 2013

• Eduard Feireisl - Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, June 17-26, 2013
  

• Arghir Zarnescu -  University of Sussex, UK, June 17-24, 2013

• Ortega Jaime Humberto - University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, September 30- October 1, 2013

• Maria Schonbek - University of California, USA, October 4-11, 2013

• Virginia Agostiniani - Mathematical Institute - University of Oxford, UK, December 10-12, 2013

• Giuseppe Tomassetti - Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy, January 13-17, 2014

• Pavel Krejci - Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, February 10-12, 2014

• Eduard Feireisl - Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, March 24-28, 2014

• Maria Schonbek - University of California, USA, March 24-28, 2014

• Flaviana Iurlano - Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany, March 30th - April 4th, 2014

• Pavel Krejci - Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 5-10, 2014

• Gabriela Marinoschi - Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Bucharest, Romania, May 14-16, 2014 and December 1-7, 2014

• Viorel Barbu, Al. I. Cuza" University, Romanian Academy, Iasi, Romania, December 1-7, 2014

• Maria Schonbek - University of California, USA, March 30- April 4, 2015

• Arghir Zarnescu -  University of Sussex, UK, March 16-21, 2015

• Eduard Feireisl - Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, March 30 - April 3, 2015

• Mimi Dai - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, March 29 - April 7, 2015

• Pavel Krejci, Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 25-28, 2015

• Michel Fremond - University of Roma Tor Vergata, June 2-5, 2015

• Hao Wu - Fudan University, China, September 30 - October 14, 2015

• Stefano Melchionna - University of Vienna, November 23-27, 2015.
  

• Kei-Fong Lam - University of Regensburg, December 13-18, 2015.
  

• Pavel Krejci, Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, January 25-29, 2016

• Arghir Zarnescu -  University of Sussex, UK, February 7-13, 2016

• Eduard Feireisl - Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, February 7-13, 2016

• Hosek Radim, Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2016

• Juergen Sprekels, WIAS, Berlin, Germany, September 12-16, 2016

• Riccardo Scala, University of Vienna, September 26-30, 2016
  

• Hao Wu - Fudan University, China, February 6-18, 2017
  

• Kei-Fong Lam - University of Regensburg, February 6-10, 2017

• Takeshi Fukao - Kyoto University of Education, February 6-16, 2017

• Juergen Sprekels, WIAS, Berlin, Germany, February 19-24, 2016

• Alain Miranville - University of Poitiers, France
  February 20-21, 2017