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Monday, 17 October 2016 Assoc. prof. Guido De Philippis guest lecturer at our Faculty

UP FAMNIT and UP IAM are pleased to invite you to the lecture »The Plateau problem« by Assoc. Prof. Guido De Philippis, PhD, which will take place on Monday 24 October at 10.00 in FAMNIT-VP (Glagoljaška 8, Koper).

Guido De Philippis works at SISSA – The International School for Advanced Studies (Trieste, Italy) and has been recently awarded EMS Prize 2016.

EMS prizes are awarded to young researchers not older than 35 years, of European nationality or working in Europe, in recognition of excellent contributions in mathematics.

Lecture Summary:

In its classical formulation Plateau problem asks to find the surface of minimal area spanning a given boundary. Understanding the proper notion of surface, area and of "spanning a boundary" has lead since the pioneering works of Almegren-De Giorgi/Federe-Fleming/Reifenberg in the 50's to the development of beautiful and powerful tools in Geometric Measure Theory.
I will review the state of the art on the Plateau problem by presenting a series of old and new results concerning existence and regularity of solutions.

About the lecturer:

EMS Prize 2016
Guido De Philippis was awarded EMS Prize 2016 for his outstanding contributions to the regularity of solutions of Monge-Ampére equation and optimal maps and for his deep work on quantitative stability inequalities for the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian and rigidity in some isoperimetric type inequalities.

Research Interests
Guido De Philippis is working in the area of Calculus of Variations, Geometric Measure Theory and Partial Differential Equations (PDE). In particular he is interested in the study of regularity and singularity issues in geometric variational problems (minimal surfaces, shape optimisation problems, capillarity problems) and non linear elliptic PDE. He is also interested in the study of qualitative of solutions and in quantitative geometric and functional inequalities.

Curriculum Vitae
2016 Associate Professor, SISSA Trieste (Italy)
2015 Chargé de Recherche CNRS, ENS Lyon (France)
2014 National Italian Habilitation as Associate Prof. in Math. Analysis
2014 Post Doc, University of Zurich, Zurich (CH)
2013 HCM Post Doc, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn (Germany)
2012 PhD in Mathematics, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa (Italy)
2009 MSc in Mathematics, University of Florence (Italy)
2007 BSc in Mathematics, University of Florence (Italy)