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People with expertise in this area
Research interests

Sisto Baldo: Associate Professor
Mauro Bonafini: Temporary Assistant Professor
Giacomo Canevari: Associate Professor

Antonio Marigonda: Full Professor
Giandomenico Orlandi: Full Professor
Nicola Sansonetto: Associate Professor

Research interests
Topic	People	Description
Existence theories	Sisto Baldo	Minimal surfaces. Calculus of variations on manifolds.
Hamilton-Jacobi theories, including dynamic programming	Antonio Marigonda	Nonsmooth Analysis and application to Optmal control. Viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
Optimality conditions.	Sisto Baldo	Asymptotics of variational problems. Variational convergences and Gamma Convergence. Singular perturbations of variational problems.
Variational principles of physics.	Sisto Baldo	Variational problems from condensed matter and particle Physics (e.g. Ginzburg-Landau models for superconductivity, Gross-Pitaevskii model for Bose-Einstein condensation, string theory) and their relation with minimal surfaces.
Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting	Sisto Baldo Mauro Bonafini Giacomo Canevari Antonio Marigonda Giandomenico Orlandi Nicola Sansonetto	Geometric variational and evolution problems: minimal surfaces, motion by mean curvature. Optimal mass transport theory.