Variational Methods for Evolution: Abstracts from the workshop held December 4–10, 2011

Abstract

The meeting focused on the last advances in the applications of variational methods to evolution problems governed by partial differential equations. The talks covered a broad range of topics, including large deviation and variational principles, rate-independent evolutions and gradient flows, heat flows in metric-measure spaces, propagation of fracture, applications of optimal transport and entropy-entropy dissipation methods, phasetransitions, viscous approximation, and singular-perturbation problems