MIGSAA Variational Methods for PDEs (2019)

Timetable for Week 1 (taught by John M. Ball): lectures in ICMS lecture theatre, room 5.10.
7 Jan: 10.45-12.45, 8 Jan: 10.45-12.45, 9 Jan: 9.00-10.45, 10 Jan: 9.00-10.45

Email:

h.gimperlein at hw.ac.uk

This module is taught as part of the MIGSAA CDT programme and offered across SMSTC. Compact course of 8 lectures in Week 1, then 2 lectures per week, additional student lectures

Weeklies (updated 4 March)

Basic references:	J. M. Ball, lecture notes.
(DO NOT BUY THESE!!!)	S. Bartels, Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Springer, 2015.
	C. De Lellis, L. Szekelyhidi Jr., John Nash’s nonlinear iteration, to appear in memorial volume for John Nash.
	I. Ekeland and N. Ghoussoub, Selected new aspects of the calculus of variations in the large, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 207-265.
	M. Struwe, Variational Methods: Applications to Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Hamiltonian Systems, Springer, 2008.

Further material:	Direct method of the calculus of variations
	Compensated compactness and application to elasticty
	Discretized problems
	Gradient flows
	High-dimensionality and h-principle in PDE
	Onsager's conjecture

Notes:	Week 1
(beware of typos!)	Week 2
	Week 3
	Week 4
	Week 5
	Week 6
	Week 7
	Week 8
	Week 9
	Week 10, notes