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Advanced Topics in Calculus of Variations

Course Type: 
PhD Course
Academic Year: 
2013-2014
Period: 
April-May
Duration: 
20 h
Description: 

Program of the course:

  • Preliminaries on Gamma-convergence.
  • Homogenization: an example in dimension one.
  • Dimension reduction in elasticity: preliminaries on the mathematical theory of elasticity;
    Korn’s inequality; rigorous derivation of a plate theory in linearized elasticity
    rigidity theorem; rigorous derivation of Kirchhoff plate theory.
  • Gradient theory of phase transitions
Location: 
A-133
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