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Friction and geometry in Lindbladian dynamics

We study the adiabatic response of open systems governed by Lindblad evolutions (or Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan) and hence affected by some form of friction. In particular, we present the analog of t...

Universal central extensions of the Lie algebra of volume-preserving vector fields

The goal of the talk is proving a conjecture of Claude Roger about the universal central extension of the Lie algebra of volume-preserving vector fields. In the beginning we will briefly review the no...

The Physics of the Hopfield Neural Network

How do we recognize faces? How do we divide people into groups if they are not all friends with each other? How do magnets work? Introduced back in 1982 as a neural network realization of an associati...

The stability of strictly stable critical sets under Surface Diffusion Flow

We study the evolution in time of smooth sets in the n–dimensional flat torus, such that their boundaries, which are smooth hypersurfaces, move by surface diffusion flow (i.e. the H−1H−1 gradient flow...

Solution theory for the stochastic thin film equation with spatially colored noise

We present recent results on the local in time well-posedness of stochastic thin-film equations driven by Gaussian noise, which is white in time and colored in space, with strictly positive initial da...

Una disuguaglianza isoperimetrica per il funzionale della capillarità nel complementare di un convesso

Nel 2007 Choe-Ghomi and Ritoré hanno provato una disuguaglianza isoperimetrica che afferma che a parità di volume, il minimo del perimetro relativo di un insieme E fuori di un convesso C si realizza q...

From charge to spin: Analogies and differences in quantum transport coefficients

Abstract:   We review some recent results from the mathematical theory of quantum transport of charge and spin in insulating crystals. The emphasis will be on transport coefficients, su...

Going high-order in implicit schemes for stiff hyperbolic systems

Abstract: This talk addresses the challenges of designing high-order implicit schemes for systems of hyperbolic conservation laws, particularly in the context of stiff problems where wave speeds ...

Il mio viaggio tra i modelli di crescita aleatoria

Abstract: Quali sono i meccanismi che regolano la formazione di strutture ramificate di tipo frattale in natura? Questa domanda ha attratto nell'ultimo secolo l'attenzione di molti fisici, matematici ...

Critical points of semi-stable solutions on model spaces

We consider solutions of semilinear equations on domains of the model spaces of constant curvature S^2, R^2 and H^2. Under suitable conditions on the domain, we prove uniqueness an...

Asymptotic properties of some non-coercive Hamiltonians

Several interesting asymptotic properties of Hamilton-Jacobi equations are based on the so-called critical value of the Hamiltonian H(x,p) and on the associated critical stationary H-J equation. In pa...

Cutoff phenomenon for nonlinear diffusion equations : a few examples

The cutoff phenomenon is a now classical topic in probability, that consists in proving an abrupt convergence to equilibrium for a sequence of Markovian dynamics. Classical examples include card shuff...