[Opt-Net] INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON “VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS”, Erice (Sicily), August 28 - September 5, 2015

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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON “VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS”

Erice (Sicily), August 28 - September 5, 2015
The workshop aims at presenting state-of-the-art and current research directions in variational analysis and partial differential equations and systems.

Variational analysis encompasses a large area of modern mathematics, including the classic calculus of variations, the theories of perturbation, approximation, subgradient, subderivatives, set convergence and variational inequalities. Originating with the Signorini problem, about 5 decades ago, variational inequalities have undergone great development and influence both in the progress of variational analysis, and in applications to mathematical physics and, more recently, to engineering, statistics, economics, financial networks and generalized complementarity problems.

In particular, several classical and new theories have received a strong impulse for effective solutions to until-now unsolved problems. These theories include: infinite dimensional duality and zero duality gap, minimax problems, variational principles and fixed points problems, Jacobian and Hessian equations, degenerate problems,  variational problems with measurable coefficients, inverse variational problems, second order optimality conditions, infima over sub-level sets, stochastic variational inequalities and optimization problems, variational and differential inclusions.

The workshop aims at offering a review of the results achieved in the above research themes, specifying the used methods and pointing out the open problems together with outlines of the new research trends in the principal topics of variational analysis and applications.

The sessions of September 3-4 will be dedicated to Professor Antonino Maugeri in the occasion of his 70th birthday.

The proceedings of the special session dedicated to Professor Maugeri, but extended also to all the participants in the international workshop, will be published in a special issue of Journal of Convex Analysis, edited by P. Daniele, F. Giannessi and M. Théra. The deadline for submitting the contribution is November 1, 2015.

During the opening ceremony of the International Workshop, a Gold Medal in honour of Guido Stampacchia will be assigned for the fifth time, after an international competition, to a young mathematician, whose age be not greater than 35 years at the date of December 31st 2015, for his scientific contribution in the field of Variational Analysis.
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