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Programme

All talks will be in room B3.02

Tuesday 25th March

from 9:30 Registration
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Sören Bartels (Freiburg) Finite Element Approximation of Functions of Bounded Variation
14:45 Robert Nürnberg (Imperial) Stable Finite Element Approximations of Incompressible Two-Phase Flow
15:30 Tea
16:00 Shawn Walker (Louisiana State University) A Saddle-Point Formulation And Finite Element Method For The Stefan Problem With Surface Tension
16:45 Ricardo Nochetto (Maryland) Optimal Control of Free Boundary Problems with Surface Tension Effects
18:00 Dinner

Wednesday 26th March

09:45 Matthias Röger (Dortmund) Colliding interfaces in diffuse approximations of the Willmore flow
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Benoît Merlet (CMAP, Paris) The bilipidic membrane as a fluid of rods. Derivation of the limiting shell theory
11:45 Matthew Turner (Warwick) How to use (and misuse) fluctuation measurements to measure the mechanical properties of a membrane
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Dietmar Hömberg (Weierstrass Institute) Nucleation, growth, and grain size evolution in dual phase steels
14:45 James Sprittles (Warwick) Mathematical Modelling of the Coalescence of Liquid Drops
15:30 Tea
16:00 John Billingham (Nottingham) Some Unsteady, Singular Free Boundary Problems with Surface Tension
16:45 Discussion
18:00 Dinner

Thursday 27th March

10:30 Coffee
11:00 Paola Pozzi (Duisburg-Essen) On a Willmore-Helfrich $L^2$-flow of open curves in $\mathbb{R}^n$
11:45 Pierluigi Colli (Pavia) Gradient flow equations for a phase field approximation of the Willmore functional with constraints
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Maria Gualdani (Washington) Global well-posedness for a relaxed Landau equation
14:45 Harald Garcke (Regensburg) Incompressible two phase flow with surfactant transport
15:30 Tea
16:00 Matthias Heil (Manchester) Wrinkly fingers - viscous fingering in elastic-walled Hele-Shaw cells
16:45 Michael Hintermüller (Humboldt University, Berlin) Optimal Control of the Cahn-Hilliard System with Non-Smooth Homogeneous Free Energy Densities

Friday 28th March

09:45 Eugen Varvaruca (Reading) Singularities of Steady Free Surface Fluid Flows
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Lindgren, Erik (NTNU) The fractional Cheeger problem and fractional eigenvalue problems
11:45 Henrik Shahgholian (Stockholm) A Bernoulli-type free boundary with a Branch point
12:30 Lunch