Thurs.

Sept. 24

Morning Session - Chair: P. Rabinowitz

8.45 - 9.00

S. Ahmad

Opening Remarks

9.00 - 9.55

D. Fortunato

Solitary Waves, Vortices and Electromagnetic Fields

9.55 - 10.50

J.M. Coron

Nonlinearity and controllability of partial differential equations

10.50 - 11.05

Coffee Break

11.05 - 12.00

A. Marino

Multiple bifurcation branches for some elastic bounce problems

Afternoon Session - Chair: G. Palmieri

14.30 - 15.25

A. Malchiodi

Topological methods for Liouville type equations on compact surfaces

15.25 - 16.20

Y. Li

A geometric problem and the Hopf Lemma

 

Fri.

Sept. 25

Morning Session - Chair: J. Hernandez

9.00 - 9.55

H. Berestycki

Generalizations, properties and applications of the principal eigenvalue

of elliptic operators in unbounded domains

9.55 - 10.50

M. Clapp

Periodic and Bloch solutions to a magnetic nonlinear Schrödinger equation

10.50 - 11.05

Coffee Break

11.05 - 12.00

A. Bahri

Topological Remarks

Afternoon Session – Chair: M. Degiovanni

14.30 - 15.25

A. Abbondandolo

Estimates and computations in Rabinowitz-Floer homology

15.25 - 16.20

L. Veron

Separable p-harmonic functions and non variational quasilinear problems on manifolds

16.20 - 16.35

Coffee Break

16.35 - 17.30

M. Del Pino

Minimal surfaces and entire solutions of the Allen-Cahn equation

18.30

Banquet

 

Sat.

Sept. 26

Morning Session – Chair: A.M. Micheletti

9.00 - 9.55

C. Stuart

Axi-symmetric TM-modes in an inhomogeneous self-focusing dielectric

9.55 - 10.50

M.J. Esteban

New symmetry results for the extremals of the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities

10.50 - 11.05

Coffee Break

11.05 - 12.00

P. Felmer

On the Landesman-Lazer condition for fully nonlinear elliptic equations

Afternoon Session – Chair: C. Stuart

14.30 - 15.25

A. Masiello

Some applications of variational methods to Lorentzian Geometry

15.25 - 16.20

J.G. De Figueiredo

Local "superlinearity" and "sublinearity" for the p-Laplacian