Free Boundary Problems are ubiquitous in applications. Their mathematical treatment is a mainstay in applied mathematics and has inspired a large international community. This Thematic Program is designed to offer a platform for exchange and collaboration. Rhree workshops are planned, namely:
Workshop 1, Sept. 29 -Oct. 3, 2025: Regularity of free boundary problems;
Workshop 2, Nov. 10 - Nov. 14, 2025: Geometric variational problems;
Workshop 3, Dec. 9 - Dec.12, 2025: Free boundaries and growth.
In addition, we will series of lectures and seminars, including
Jose' A. Carrillo (Oxford): Global minimizers of interaction energies, 3h, Oct. 7 (14-15:30) and Oct. 9 (10-11:30), 2025.
Yoshihiro Tonegawa (Institute of Science Tokyo): Introduction to Brakke's mean curvature flow, 12h, Oct. 27 - Nov. 5, 2025. Link to the course website
Joaquim Serra (ETH): Stable solutions to the Allen-Cahn equation with bounded energy density, 3h, Nov. 17 - Nov. 18, 2025.
Max Fathi (Paris): Quantitative regulairty for ransport maps, 6h, Nov. 20 - Nov. 21, 2025.
Please note that participation into the Thematic Programme is by invitation only.
Partial support is acknowledged from the SFB 65 Project Taming Complexity in Partial Differential Systems, financed through a grant by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
Global minimizes of interaction energies I
Global minimizers of interaction energies II
Thin-Film Free Boundary Problems with Moving Contact Lines - Modelling, Numerics, and Model Hierarchies
On the role of quasiconvexity in dynamics
The energy-variational structure in evolution
Stable solutions to the Allen-Cahn equation with bounded energy density I
Stable solutions to the Allen-Cahn equation with bounded energy density II
Quantitative regularity for transport maps I
Quantitative regularity for transport maps II
Self-improvement phenomena in nonlinear evolution equations
Parabolic PDEs with Dynamic Data under a Bounded Slope Condition
Organizers
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Serena Dipierro | University of Western Australia |
| Julian Fischer | Institute of Science and Technology Austria |
| Matteo Novaga | University of Pisa |
| Elisabetta Rocca | University of Pavia |
| Xavier Ros-Oton | University of Barcelona |
| Ulisse Stefanelli | University of Vienna |
| Enrico Valdinoci | University of Western Australia |
Attendees
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Helmut Abels | University of Regensburg |
| Abramo Agosti | Universita degli Studi (Pavia) |
| Goro Akagi | Tohoku University |
| Nuno Alves | University of Vienna |
| Anton Arnold | Technical University of Vienna |
| Costante Bellettini | University College London |
| Alberto Bressan | The Pennsylvania State University |
| Giovanni Brigati | Institute of Science and Technology Austria |
| Claudia Bucur | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Sun-Sig Byun | Seoul National University |
| Davide Carazzato | University of Vienna |
| Jose Antonio Carrillo de la Plata | University of Oxford |
| Michele Caselli | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
| Giulia Cavalleri | University of Pavia |
| Cecilia Cavaterra | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Annalisa Cesaroni | University of Padova |
| Antonin Chambolle | CEREMADE University Paris Dauphine |
| Andrea Chiesa | University of Vienna |
| Pasquale Ciarletta | Politecnico di Milano |
| Pierluigi Colli | University of Pavia |
| Anna Dall'Acqua | University of Ulm |
| Apostolos Damialis | European Mathematical Society |
| Elisa Davoli | Technical University of Vienna |
| Luigi De Masi | University of Trento |
| Guido De Philippis | Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
| Antonio De Rosa | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi |
| Georg Dolzmann | University of Regensburg |
| Alexander Erlich | CNRS - Université Grenoble Alpes |
| Alberto Fanizza | TU Wien |
| Max Fathi | Université Paris Cité |
| William Feldman | University of Utah |
| Xavier Fernandez-Real | École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne |
| Enric Florit-Simon | ETH Zürich |
| Irene Fonseca | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Matteo Fornoni | University of Milan |
| Federico Franceschini | Institute for Advanced Study |
| Takeshi Fukao | Ryukoku University |
| Harald Garcke | University of Regensburg |
| Noah Geltner | Technical University of Vienna |
| Rossella Giorgio | Technical University of Vienna |
| Chiara Giverso | Politecnico di Torino |
| Michael Goldman | CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau |
| Maurizio Grasselli | Politecnico di Milano |
| Sebastian Hensel | University of Leipzig |
| Peter Hirvonen | Technical University of Vienna |
| Jonas Ingmanns | Institute of Science and Technology Austria |
| Ansgar Jüngel | Technical University of Vienna |
| Aram Karakhanyan | University of Edinburgh |
| Shokhrukh Kholmatov | University of Vienna |
| Sunghan Kim | Uppsala University |
| Konstantinos Koumatos | University of Sussex |
| Dennis Kriventsov | Rutgers University |
| Martin Kružík | Czech Academy of Sciences |
| Anna Kubin | TU Wien |
| Kota Kumazaki | Kyoto University of Education |
| Mateusz Kwaśnicki | Wroclaw University of Science and Technology |
| Kei Fong Andrew Lam | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| Xavier Lamy | Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse |
| Robert Lasarzik | Weierstrass Institute Berlin |
| Tim Laux | Heidelberg University |
| Marta Lewicka | University of Pittsburgh |
| Jiakun Liu | University of Sydney |
| Luca Lombardini | University of Vienna |
| Jan Maas | Institute of Science and Technology Austria |
| Alice Marveggio | Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn |
| Sara Merino-Aceituno | University of Vienna |
| Alain Miranville | Université Le Havre Normandie |
| Tatsuya Miura | Kyoto University |
| Anastasia Molchanova | TU Wien |
| Mihalis Mourgoglou | Universidad del País Vasco |
| Yoshihito Nakajima | Tohoku University |
| Francesco Nobili | University of Pisa |
| Vincent Pallardó-Julià | University of Vienna |
| Davide Parise | Imperial College London |
| Dirk Peschka | Weierstrass Institute Berlin |
| Alessandro Pigati | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi |
| Alessandra Pluda | University of Pisa |
| Andrea Poiatti | University of Vienna |
| Annamaria Pollino | Technical University of Vienna |
| Marco Pozzetta | Politecnico di Milano |
| Paola Pozzi | University of Duisburg-Essen |
| Mariya Ptashnyk | Heriot-Watt University |
| Filippo Quattrocchi | Institute of Science and Technology Austria |
| Pierre Recho | CNRS - Université Grenoble Alpes |
| Samuele Riccò | Technical University of Vienna |
| José Francisco Rodrigues | University of Lisbon |
| Tomàś Roubíček | Charles University Prague |
| Melanie Rupflin | University of Oxford |
| Fabian Rupp | University of Vienna |
| Alessandro Scapin | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Luca Scarpa | Politecnico di Milano |
| Felix Schulze | University of Warwick |
| Sebastian Schwarzacher | Uppsala University |
| Daniele Semola | University of Vienna |
| Joaquim Serra | ETH Zurich |
| Henrik Shahgholian | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| Wenhui Shi | RWTH Aachen |
| Andrea Signori | Politecnico di Milano |
| Lauro Silini | Institute of Science and Technology Austria |
| Theresa Simon | University of Münster |
| Nicola Soave | University of Torino |
| Giacomo Enrico Sodini | University of Vienna |
| María Soria-Carro | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid |
| Salvatore Stuvard | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Jack Thompson | University of Western Australia |
| Xavier Tolsa | Autonomous University of Barcelona |
| Giuseppe Tomassetti | University Roma Tre |
| Yoshihiro Tonegawa | Institute of Science Tokyo |
| Lev Truskinovsky | Univertsité PSL, Paris |
| Tobias Unterberger | TU Wien |
| José Miguel Urbano | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology |
| Bozhidar Velichkov | University of Pisa |
| Gianmaria Verzini | Politecnico di Milano |
| Andreas Vikelis | University of Vienna |
| Christian Wagner | Institute of Science and Technology Austria |
| Julian Walser | University of Vienna |
| Gaoming Wang | Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA) |
| Marvin Weidner | Universität Bonn |
| Georg Weiss | University of Duisburg-Essen |
| Hao Wu | Fudan University |
| Jack Xin | University of California, Irvine |
| Hui Yu | National University of Singapore |
| Rada Ziganshina | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| Giuseppe Zurlo | National University of Ireland, Galway |