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face=Helvetica><FONT color=#666666 size=4>Erice (Sicily), August 28 - September
5, 2015</FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">The workshop aims at presenting state-of-the-art
and current research directions in variational analysis and partial differential
equations and systems.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">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.</FONT></P>
<P class=p2><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">The sessions of September 3-4
will be dedicated to </FONT><A
style='href: "http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonino_Maugeri"'
target=_blank><FONT face="Times New Roman">Professor Antonino
Maugeri</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"> in the occasion of his 70th
birthday.</FONT></STRONG></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">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</FONT><A
style='href: "http://www.heldermann.de/JCA/jcacover.htm"' target=_blank><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> Journal of Convex Analysis</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman">, edited by P. Daniele, F. Giannessi and M. Théra. The
deadline for submitting the contribution is November 1, 2015.</FONT></P>
<P class=p2><FONT face="Times New Roman">During the opening ceremony of the
International Workshop, a </FONT><A title="Gold Medal “Guido Stampacchia”"
style='href: "http://varana.org/gold-medal-guido-stampacchia/"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Gold Medal</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"> 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 31<SPAN class=s2>st </SPAN>2015, for his
scientific contribution in the field of Variational
Analysis.</FONT></P></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>