“Nonlinear Evolution Equation and Control: celebrating Alberto’s 70th birthday”

15-19 Giugno 2026 - HUB di Ingegneria, Via Niccolò Tommaseo 59, 35131 Padova PD

The conference aims at presenting fundamental theoretical advances and most promising research directions of evolutionary PDEs and control theory, with a particular focus on the deep and increasingly fruitful interaction between hyperbolic PDEs, geometric measure theory, variational methods and control. The meeting is part of the activities of the ERC project “Regularity and singularity of solutions to geometric variational problems”.

Speakers

  • Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) (Online)
  • Debora Amadori (University of L’Aquila, Italy)
  • Piermarco Cannarsa (University of Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy)
  • Maria Teresa Chiri (Queen’s University, Canada)
  • Giuseppe M. Coclite (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
  • Giovanni Colombo (University of Padova, Italy)
  • Rinaldo M. Colombo (University of Brescia, Italy)
  • Adrian Constantin (University of Vienna, Austria)
  • Jean-Michel Coron (Sorbonne Université-LJLL, Paris, France)
  • Graziano Crasta (“Sapienza”, University of Roma, Italy)
  • Constantine Dafermos (Brown University, USA)
  • Carlotta Donadello (Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, Besançon, France)
  • Olivier Glass (Université Dauphine-PSL, Paris, France)
  • Paola Goatin (Université Côte d’Azur, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France)
  • Graziano Guerra (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
  • Helge Holden (NTNU, Trondheim, Norway)
  • Marta Lewicka (University of Pittsburgh, USA) (Online)
  • Pierangelo Marcati (GSSI, L’Aquila, Italy)
  • Elsa M. Marchini(Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
  • Andrea Marson (University of Padova, Italy)
  • Marco Mazzola (Sorbonne Université, Paris, France)
  • Tien Khai Nguyen (North Carolina State University, USA)
  • Michele Palladino (University of L’Aquila, Italy)
  • Benedetto Piccoli (Rutgers University, Camden, USA)
  • Franco Rampazzo(University of Padova, Italy)
  • Denis Serre (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Registration is free but mandatory. Further information about the conference are available at the website of the conference