Phd in MATHEMATICAL MODELS FOR ENGINEERING, ELECTROMAGNETICS AND
NANOSCIENCES

email: micol.amar@uniroma1.it
phone: +390649766628
building: RM002
room: 2

1988: Bachelor’s degree in Physics at the University of Milan with full marks cum laude
1990: Master degree at S.I.S.S.A. - Trieste with full marks cum laude
1993: PhD degree at S.I.S.S.A. - Trieste (no marks expected)
1992/1998: university researcher position in Mathematical Analysis (University of Pavia)
1998/today : associate professor position in Mathematical Analysis
2013: full professor qualification in Mathematical Analysis
2018: full professor qualification in Mathematical Analysis

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

-Semicontinuity, relaxation and integral representation problems in Sobolev spaces and in BV.
-Minimization problems for convex and non convex functionals.
-G-convergence, Gamma-convergence and periodic homogenization for PDEs and integral functionals.
-Applications of the homogenization techniques to biological models or composite materials.
-Elliptic and parabolic PDEs: well-posedness and qualitative properties of the solutions.

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

- referee for several international journals and for AMS - Mathematical Review (AMS up to 2021).
- 2005: G.N.A.M.P.A.-C.N.R. principal investigator of the project "Funzioni a variazione limitata e alcuni problemi variazionali"
- 2005: co-organizer of the "Summer School on Calculus of Variations", Rome (Italy)
- 2006: G.N.A.M.P.A.-C.N.R. principal investigator of the project "Singolarità e semicontinuità nel calcolo delle variazioni"
- 2009: co-organizer of a minisimposium in the "V European Conference on Elliptic and Parabolic Problems" - Gaeta (Italy)
- 2011: member of the Academic Board of the PhD in "Elettromagnetismo e Modelli Matematici per l'Ingegneria"
- 2012: member of the examining board for the PhD degree at the University of Trento (Italy)
- from 2012: member of the Academic Board of the PhD in “Matematica per l'Ingegneria, Elettromagnetismo e Nanoscienze" (except 2019)
- from 2012: Managing Editor in the journal "Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems"
- 2016: co-organizer of a minisimposium in the ``First Joint Meeting Brazil Italy in Mathematics", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2018: co-organizer of a minisimposium in the ``XIV congresso SIMAI", Rome (Italy)
- 2019: co-organizer of a minisimposium in the ``International Conference on Elliptic and Parabolic Problems", Gaeta (Italy)
- from 2020: member of the scientific committee of “Centro internazionale di ricerca M&MOCS dell'Università degli Studi dell'Aquila”
-2022: co-organizer of a minisimposium in the “International Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics”, Alghero (Italy)
- 2022: co-organizer of the workshop “Two days of PDEs in heterogeneous and irregular structures”, Roma (Italy).
- 2022: co-organizer of “third mission” project, partially supported by INdAM, entitled “(Non) Azzardiamo con la Matematica” e co-organizer of the corresponding workshop in Roma (Italy)

TALKS and SEMINARS (since 2014)

2014 XII Congresso SIMAI, Taormina
2014 Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, Padova
2016 First joint meeting Brazil-Italy in Mathematics, Rio de Janeiro (Brasile)
2017 International Conference on Elliptic and Parabolic Problems, Gaeta
2017 Meeting on analysis and modeling of multi-scale problems, Politecnico di Torino - Torino
2018 XXVIII Convegno Nazionale di Calcolo delle Variazioni, Levico
2018 XIV Convegno S.I.M.A.I., MS-25: Complexity reduction: mathematical modelling and control - part II (Keynote), Roma
2018 XIV Convegno S.I.M.A.I., MS-28: Variational approaches to problems in continuum mechanics - part I, Roma
2019 International Conference on Elliptic and Parabolic Problems, MS-9: Semilinear and quasilinear PDEs, Gaeta
2019 XXIV Congresso AIMETA di Meccanica Teorica e Applicata, MS10: Dynamics and Stability of Mechanical Systems (GADeS), Roma
2019 New Trends in asymptotic methods for multiscale PDEs, Karlstad (Svezia)
2022 Karlstad autumn PhD school “Interacting particles meet homogenization and measure theory” Karlstad University (Svezia) (ciclo di 3 seminari)
2023 Elliptic and Parabolic PDEs and Applications, Università della Calabria, Rende (Cosenza)
2023 Mathematical modelling in biology and medicine, Arpino (Frosinone)
2023 X Congresso ICIAM, MS00154: Homogenization of PDEs in domains with oscillating boundaries and interfaces, Tokio (Giappone)
2023 XVI Convegno S.I.M.A.I., MS02: Mathematical modelling and control in healthcare and biomedical systems, Matera
2023 Curvature-driven geometric problems, Pisa