Return-Path: Received: from murder ([unix socket]) (authenticated user=griebel.ins.uni-bonn.de bits=0) by merkur (Cyrus v2.2.13-Debian-2.2.13-10) with LMTPA; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:25:25 +0200 X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3-schwind1 (2007-08-08) on merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=no version=3.2.3-schwind1 Received: from iam.uni-bonn.de (hermes.iam.uni-bonn.de [131.220.223.5]) by merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5778400016C4 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:25:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 31157 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2008 13:25:14 -0000 Delivered-To: iam.uni-bonn.de-griebel@iam.uni-bonn.de Received: (qmail 31149 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2008 13:25:14 -0000 Received: from rrzmta1.rz.uni-regensburg.de (194.94.155.51) by hermes.iam.uni-bonn.de with SMTP; 7 Aug 2008 13:25:14 -0000 Received: from rrzmta1.rz.uni-regensburg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 17B1C82CA3; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:25:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [132.199.103.181] (pc58096.mathematik.uni-regensburg.de [132.199.103.181]) by rrzmta1.rz.uni-regensburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B5B582C97; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:25:04 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <489AF7AA.8070807@mathematik.uni-regensburg.de> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:24:58 +0200 From: Harald Garcke User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.14eol (X11/20080509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Optimization with interfaces and free boundaries Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Status: No X-Virus-Checker-Version: clamassassin 1.2.3 with clamdscan / ClamAV 0.92.1 Dear Colleagues, I would like to inform you about a summer school and a Conference taking place in Regensburg next year - see information further below. Best regards Harald Garcke http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/nat_Fak_I/Mat8/lst/indexeng.html Anouncement of the Conference on *Optimization with interfaces and free boundaries* *Regensburg, March 23-27, 2009 * Optimization problems with interfaces and free boundaries frequently appear in materials science, fluid dynamics, topology optimization, biology, finance and in other applicational areas. Modelling of these phenomena often yield variational problems and highly nonlinear partial differential equations or inequalities. The analysis of these problems including optimization of variational inequalities and geometric PDEs is a notorously difficult task. The developement of efficient numerical methods for the simulation of interface evolution and free boundaries as well as for optimization problems with PDE constraints is a vastly growing field. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers with different backgrounds to combine the experience in these areas. The meeting will start with a spring school in which an introduction to the topics of the conference will be given. On Tuesday March 24th at 14:00 the meeting will proceed with the conference. Topics of the spring school: * Modelling of interfaces and free boundaries (Harald Garcke) * Optimization with PDEs (Eduardo Casas) * Numerical approaches for interfaces and free boundaries (Charlie Elliott) Topics of the conference include modelling, analysis and numerics for * Interfaces in materials science * Phase field models * Sharp interface approaches * Control of and on evolving surfaces * Control of variational inequalitites and obstacle problems * Topology optimization Confirmed invited speakers are Martin Burger (M=FCnster), Eduardo Casas (Santander), Klaus Deckelnick (Magdeburg), Charlie Elliott (Warwick), Michael Hinterm=FCller (Sussex), Martin Rumpf (Bonn). *Organizers:* Luise Blank (Regensburg), Harald Garcke (Regensbu= rg), Michael Hinze (Hamburg) Further details can be found at http://www.mathematik.uni-regensburg.de/Mat8/lst/workshop2009