New Horizons in the Calculus of Variations and Its Applications

Carnegie Mellon University

May 24–28, 2027

Invited Speakers

Amit Acharya

Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Luigi Ambrosio

Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy

John Ball

Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

Kaushik Bhattacharya

Caltech, USA

Andrea Braides

University of Rome 2, Italy

Maria-Carme Calderer

University of Minnesota, USA

Rustum Choksi

McGill University, Canada

Riccardo Cristoferi

Radboud University, The Netherlands

Bernard Dacorogna

EPFL, Switzerland

Gianni Dal Maso

SISSA, Italy

Camillo De Lellis

Institute for Advanced Study, USA

Selim Esedoglu

University of Michigan, USA

Rita Ferreira

KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Gilles Francfort

Flatiron Institute, USA

Nicola Fusco

University of Naples, Italy

Likhit Ganedi

University of Utah, USA

Wilfrid Gangbo

UCLA, USA

José Iglesias

University of Twente, The Netherlands

Richard D. James

University of Minnesota, USA

Chris Larsen

WPI, USA

Francesco Maggi

University of Texas at Austin, USA

Paolo Marcellini

University of Florence, Italy

Michael Novack

University of Texas at Austin, USA

Felix Otto

MPI, Leipzig, Germany

Paolo Piovano

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Bogdan Raita

Georgetown University, USA

Peter Sternberg

Indiana University, USA

Kerrek Stinson

University of Utah, USA

Konstantina Trivisa

University of Maryland, USA

Raghav Venkatraman

University of Utah, USA

Elvira Zappale

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Barbara Zwicknagl

Humboldt University, Germany

Advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows are encouraged to apply for financial support. For full consideration, financial aid requests must be submitted by March 1, 2027.

Graduate students, postdocs, and scientists with a recent Ph.D. degree are encouraged to contribute a poster presentation for this workshop.

Organizing Committee

Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon University
Maria Giovanna Mora, University of Pavia, Italy
Massimiliano Morini, University of Parma, Italy
Robin Neumayer, Carnegie Mellon University
Dejan Slepčev, Carnegie Mellon University

Center for Nonlinear Analysis

Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
☎ (412) 268-2545

The workshop is supported by NSF (DMS grant 2342349 RTG: Frontiers in Applied Analysis),
Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Department of Mathematical Sciences, and Mellon College of Science.