New Trends in Calculus of Variations and Continuum Mechanics 
June 11-12, 2026 

Room 706, Department of Mathematics, via Dodecaneso 35, Genoa (Italy)

Thursday 11 June

10:30        Registration & Opening

11:00        Giuseppe Buttazzo (University of Pisa): Optimal data for elliptic PDEs

11:45        Gianni Dal Maso (SISSA, Trieste): Gamma-Convergence and stochastic homogenization for functionals in the A-free setting

12:30        Lunch 

14:00        Emilio Acerbi (University of Parma): Bifurcation for a Sharp Interface Generation Problem

14:45        Matteo Negri (University of Pavia): Phase-field models for fracture: recent developments and perspectives

15:30        Coffee break

16:00        Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): A survey on the theory of Regular Lagrangian flows

Friday 12 June

9:00        Ulisse Stefanelli (University of Vienna): Phase-field models for accretive growth in viscoelastic solids

9:45        Flaviana Iurlano (University of Genoa): Quasi-static elastic contact with Coulomb friction: transition from continuous to jumping solutions in 2D

10:30        Coffe Break

11:00        Simone Di Marino (University of Genoa): An Optimal Transport Approach to Equilibrium in Market Areas

11:45        Martin Kružík (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague): On the passage from nonlinear to linearized viscoelastodynamics

12:30        Franco Tomarelli (Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere & Politecnico di Milano): Symmetrized Fractional Variation for signal denoising

13:15        Lunch