Mini-workshop "Eigenvalue problems in surface superconductivity"

Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach, November 30 - December 6, 2014

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Preliminary planning

We will start on Monday around 9:00 and end on Friday around 12:30. There will be 3-4 talks per day (9:00-12:30 in the morning and 16:00-18:30 in the evening). According to the Oberwolfach tradition, the time 12:30-16:00 is for the lunch, coffee and cakes (provided by the institute) and for discussions.

There will be a free afternoon on Wednesday. We may walk together to the village (5 km) to visit the museum on minerals and mathematics and/or the café serving the local specialties such as the Black Forest cake.


The schedule is available here

The conference photo is available here

The report containing all extended abstracts is available here.


List of participants and talks

  • Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël (Paris): homepage (organizer)
  • Michele Correggi (Rome): homepage
    Talk: Boundary behavior of the Ginzburg-Landau order parameter in the surface
    superconductivity regime
    (abstract)

  • Daniel Daners (Sydney): homepage
    Talk: Non-positivity of the semigroup generated by the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator (abstract)
  • Monique Dauge (Rennes): homepage
    Talk: Ground state energy of the magnetic Laplacian on corner domains, Part 1: Recursive corner structure, lower bound on eigenvalues (abstract)

  • Søren Fournais (Aarhus): homepage
    Talk: Optimal magnetic Sobolev constants in the semiclassical limit (abstract)
  • Pedro Freitas (Lisbon): homepage
    Talk: Sharp inequalities for eigenvalues of the Laplace operator with Robin boundary conditions (abstract)
  • Bernard Helffer (Orsay & Nantes): homepage
    Talk: Eigenvalues for the Robin Laplacian in domains with variable curvature (abstract)
  • James Kennedy (Stuttgart): homepage
    Talk: Estimating the spectral gap of a quantum graph (abstract
  • Hynek Kovařík (Brescia): homepage (organizer)
  • David Krejčiřík (Řež): homepage
    Talk: On the similarity of Sturm-Liouville operators with non-Hermitian boundary conditions to self-adjoint and normal operators (abstract)
  • Vladimir Lotoreichik (Graz): homepage
    Talk: Discrete spectrum of Schrödinger operators with delta-interactions on conical surfaces is infinite (abstract)
  • Konstantin Pankrashkin (Orsay): homepage (organizer)
  • Nicolas Popoff (Bordeaux): homepage
    Talk 1: Eigenvalues of Robin Laplacians and mean curvature bounds (abstract)
    Talk 2: Ground state energy of the magnetic Laplacian on corner domains, Part 2: 2D and 3D taxonomy, dichotomy, upper bounds on eigenvalues (abstract)
  • Fabian Portmann (Copenhagen): homepage
    Talk: A magnetic contribution to the Hardy Inequality (abstract)
  • Nicolas Raymond (Rennes): homepage
    Talk 1: Magnetic WKB Constructions (abstract)
    Talk 2: Strong confinement limit for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation constrained on a curve (abstract)
  • Bartosch Ruszkowski (Stuttgart): homepage
    Talk: Eigenvalue sums of the Heisenberg Laplacian (abstract)

After the meeting

Extended abstracts will be published in the Oberwolfach Reports.Please submit your extended abstracts to konstantin.pankrashkin@math.u-psud.fr before December 27.