Celebration of Variations
A reunion on the occasion of Michael Struwe's 70th birthday
Turin, 23–24 October 2025
We celebrate Michael Struwe's anniversary with a special two-day conference in Turin. The scientific program will feature talks by a number of his former doctoral students. The atmosphere will be informal, blending academic presentations with the spirit of a friendly reunion.
Speakers
- Franziska Borer (TU Berlin)
- Reto Buzano (University of Turin)
- Luca Martinazzi (University of Rome)
- Melanie Rupflin (University of Oxford)
- Mario Schulz (University of Trento)
- Michael Struwe (ETH Zürich)
- Bian Wu (MPI Leipzig)
Schedule
| Thursday, 23 October 2025 | location | ||
| 09:30–10:00 | Welcome | Aula Monod | |
| 10:00–11:00 | Melanie Rupflin | Quantitative analysis of the Dirichlet energy: Are almost harmonic maps almost given by harmonic maps? |
Aula Monod |
| 11:00–11:30 | Coffee break | Sala Professori | |
| 11:30–12:30 | Bian Wu | Anomalous Dissipation in Scalar Turbulence and Euler Flows | Aula Monod |
| 12:30–14:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 14:30–15:30 | Michael Struwe | The prescribed curvature flow on the disc (Lezione Lagrangiana) |
Aula A |
| 15:30–16:30 | Coffee break | Sala Professori | |
| Friday, 24 October 2025 | location | ||
| 09:00–10:00 | Mario Schulz | New minimal surfaces in the three-dimensional sphere | Sala S |
| 10:00–11:00 | Reto Buzano | Local Singularity Analysis for the Ricci Flow | Sala S |
| 11:00–11:30 | Coffee break | Sala Professori | |
| 11:30–12:30 | Franziska Borer | A Glimpse into Prescribed Curvature Problems | Sala S |
| 12:30–14:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 14:30–15:30 | Luca Martinazzi | Variational Problems under topological constraints | Sala S |
Practical Information
Venue: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Torino
Organisers
Reto Buzano
Dipartimento di Matematica
Università di Torino
E-Mail: reto.buzano@unito.it
Mario Schulz
Dipartimento di Matematica
Università di Trento
E-Mail: geometricanalysis@wwu.de