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Analysis Seminar

Thursday, March 22, 2018 - 3:00pm

Romeo Awi

Hampton University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

We will discuss problems in the calculus of variations and partial differential equations emanating from elasticity theory. In this setting, the energy functionals are convex functions of the minors of the deformation gradient and thus are not expected to be convex. This adds an extra challenge to the uniqueness of equilibrium configurations. We will present a stochastic measure approach to these problems.