Subject: Optimization with interfaces and free boundaries
From: Harald Garcke <[email-masked]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:24:58 +0200

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 (Münster), Eduardo Casas
(Santander), Klaus Deckelnick (Magdeburg), Charlie Elliott (Warwick),
Michael Hintermüller (Sussex), Martin Rumpf (Bonn).

*Organizers:*
Luise Blank
<http://www.mathematik.uni-regensburg.de/Mat8/Blank/>(Regensburg),
Harald Garcke
<http://www.mathematik.uni-regensburg.de/Mat8/homepage/index.html>(Regensburg),
Michael Hinze <http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/hinze/>(Hamburg)

Further details can be found at
http://www.mathematik.uni-regensburg.de/Mat8/lst/workshop2009