Maria Colombo, University of Zurich, Flows of non-smooth vector fields and applications to PDEs, Wednesday, March 30, 2016, time 16:00 o'clock, Sala Consiglio 7° piano
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The classical Cauchy-Lipschitz theorem shows existence and uniqueness of the flow of any sufficiently smooth vector field in R^d. In 1989, Di Perna and Lions proved that Sobolev regularity for vector fields, with bounded divergence and a growth assumption, is sufficient to establish existence, uniqueness and stability of a generalized notion of flow, consisting of a suitable selection among the trajectories of the associated ODE. Their theory relies on a growth assumption on the vector field which prevents the trajectories from blowing up in finite time; in particular, it does not apply to fast-growing, smooth vector fields. In this seminar we give an overview of the topic and we introduce a notion of maximal flow for non-smooth vector fields which allows for finite-time blow up of the trajectories. We show existence and uniqueness under only local assumptions on the vector field and we apply the result to a kinetic equation, the Vlasov-Poisson system, where we describe the solutions as transported by a suitable flow in the phase space. This allows, in turn, to prove existence of weak solutions for general initial data. This seminar is organized within the PRIN 2012 Research project «Equazioni alle derivate parziali di tipo ellittico e parabolico: aspetti geometrici, disuguaglianze collegate, e applicazioni - Partial Differential Equations and Related Analytic-Geometric Inequalities» Grant Registration number 2012TC7588_003, funded by MIUR – Project coordinator Prof. Filippo Gazzola

Juan Luis Vazquez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Fractional Diffusion Equations. Theory on bounded domains, Friday, March 11, 2016, time 11:00 o'clock, Sala Consiglio 7° piano
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In this talk I will report on some of the progress made by the author and collaborators on the topic of nonlinear diffusion equations involving long distance interactions in the form of fractional Laplacian operators. In recent work with Bonforte and Sire we address the solution of Dirichlet problems in bounded domains, where the correct definition of what is the operator has a number of possible answers leading to different qualititative and quantitative results. This seminar is organized within the PRIN 2012 Research project «Equazioni alle derivate parziali di tipo ellittico e parabolico: aspetti geometrici, disuguaglianze collegate, e applicazioni - Partial Differential Equations and Related Analytic-Geometric Inequalities» Grant Registration number 2012TC7588_003, funded by MIUR – Project coordinator Prof. Filippo Gazzola

Tomás Caraballo, Universidad de Sevilla, Pullback attractors for random and non-autonomous dynamical systems: an introduction with applications, Friday, Febraury 26, 2016, time 10:00 o'clock, Aula seminari III piano
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The theory of pullback attractors for Random/Non-autonomous Dynamical Systems has been extensively developed over the last three decades, mainly due to the fact that it provides a suitable framework to analyze the global behavior of dynamical systems containing some kind of stochasticity or randomness as well as some time dependent forcing. In this talk we will introduce the basic tools of the theory of pullback attractors for handling both non-autonomous and random dynamical systems. We will show how both problems can be analyzed in a unified formulation thanks to the concept of cocycle. We will also emphasize on the different effects that different kind of noise can produce on the asymptotic behaviour of the solutions. Our results will be illustrated with some basic academic examples as well as some other interesting models appearing in the applied sciences (for example, reaction-diffusion equations and chemostast models).

Zindine Djadli, Université Grenoble Alpes, Conformal geometry: some old and recent results, Wednesday, Febraury 24, 2016, time 11:30 o'clock, Aula seminari III piano
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In this talk I will review some results in conformal geometry. The talk will mainly focus on the applications of conformal geometry in rigidity results. The talk is aimed to be accessible to everyone, especially people not familiar with Riemannian geometry.

Giovanni Molica Bisci, Università degli Studi Mediterranea, On nonlocal critical equations, Friday, January 29, 2016, time 11:00 o'clock, Aula seminari III piano
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A very interesting area of nonlinear analysis lies in the study of elliptic equations involving fractional operators. Recently, a great attention has been focused on these problems, both for the pure mathematical research and in view of concrete real-world ap- plications. Indeed, this type of operators appear in a quite natural way in different contexts, such as the description of several physical phenomena. In particular, nonlocal critical equations are relevant for their relations with problems arising in differential geometry and in physics, where a lack of compactness occurs (see [4, Part III]). Motivated by this wide interest in the current literature, also in connection with the celebrated Brezis-Nirenberg problem (see [1]), in the first part of the talk we will describe the state of the art for nonlocal critical problems involving the fractional Laplacian operator or its generalizations. Successively, some recent existence and multiplicity results will be discussed [2, 3, 5]. In conclusion, certain open problems will be briefly presented. References: [1] H. Brezis and L. Nirenberg, Positive solutions of nonlinear elliptic equa- tions involving critical Sobolev exponents, Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 36 (1983), 437–477. [2] A. Fiscella, G. Molica Bisci and R. Servadei, Bifurcation and multi- plicity results for critical nonlocal fractional problems, Bull. Sci. Math. 140 (2016), 14–35. [3] J. Mawhin and G. Molica Bisci, A Brezis-Nirenberg type result for a non- local fractional operator, preprint 2016. [4] G. Molica Bisci, V. Ra ?dulescu, and R. Servadei, Variational Meth- ods for Nonlocal Fractional Problems, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, No. 142, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2016. [5] G. Molica Bisci and R. Servadei, Lower semicontinuity of functionals of fractional type and applications to nonlocal equations with critical Sobolev exponent, Adv. Differential Equations 20 (2015), 635–660.

Ilaria Lucardesi, SISSA, The wave equation on domains with cracks growing on a prescribed path, Friday, January 15, 2016, time 11:00 o'clock, Aula seminari III piano
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In this talk I analyze a scalar wave equation in a time varying domain of the form "set minus a growing crack", when the crack develops along a given path. Under suitable regularity assumptions, I show existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence on the cracks of the weak solution of the wave equation under study. This is a joint work with Gianni Dal Maso.