Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum
Elisabetta Rocca
Born in Broni (PV), the August 28, 1976.

Present Position
 


Undergraduated and graduated studied and previous working experiences

  • PhD in Mathematics Scientific Calculus the February 19, 2004 with the thesis: ``Some phase field models of Penrose-Fife type'' (download a  PS  or PDF file), advisor Prof. G. Gilardi, at the  University of Pavia.
  • Graduated cum laude in Mathematics at the University of Pavia, the July 1, 1999, with the thesis: ``Analisi asintotica rispetto al parametro di rilassamento in tempo di un modello di campo di fase conservativo con memoria'' (download PS) (advisor Prof. P. Colli).
  • High school degree (scientific oriented), liceo scientifico statale di Broni (PV),  Italy, 1995.
Awards
    • Premio di Laurea Luigi Berzolari biennio 1997/98 e 1998/99, Pavia March 2001
    • Premio SAFI (Scuola Avanzata di Formazione Integrata) of Pavia, 2001/2002.
    • Premio SAFI (Scuola Avanzata di Formazione Integrata) of Pavia, 2002/2003.

    Scientific interests
    • Well-posedness of problems arising from phase transition-separation phenomena
    • Memory effects in phase transitions phoenomena
    • Nonlinear and partial differential equations
    • Long time behaviour  and existence of the attractor for nonlinear/singular phase-field systems
    • Inverse problems: identification of memory kernels in PDE's systems 


    Research Experiences


    Organizing Experiences


    Referee for

    • Advances in Mathematical Sciences and Applications
    • Applications of Mathematics
    • Banach Center Publications
    • Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems
    • Journal of Differential Equations
    • Mathematical Methods in the Applied Science
    • Mathematical Reviews
    • Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control
    • Nonlinear Analysis Series A: Theory, Methods & Applications

    Talks

    • December 1, 2000:  Analisi asintotica rispetto al parametro di rilassamento in tempo di un modello di campo di fase conservativo con memoria, at the meeting ``IPERBS'', Brescia, Italy (download PS).
    • June 28, 2001:  Modello di campo di fase di Penrose-Fife conservativo con memoria, invited talk at the meeting ``Modelli matematici e problemi analitici per materiali speciali'', Cortona, Arezzo, Italy (download PS).
    • July 12, 2001:  Some conserved phase field models with memory at the ``Workshop in nonlinear differential equations'`, Bergamo, Italy (download PS).
    • September 24, 2001:  Some conserved phase field models with memory at the ``Fourth European Conference on Elliptic and Parabolic problems: Theory and Applications'', Gaeta, Italy (download PS).
    • June 5, 2002:  Conserved Penrose-Fife system with Fourier heat flux law poster at the ``Free boundary problems: theory and applications'', Trento, Italy (download PS).
    • July 5, 2002:  Su un modello conservativo di tipo Penrose-Fife con memoria at the meeting on ``Materiali speciali e memorie: problemi modellistici e analitici '', Salo', Brescia, Italy (download PS).
    • April 2, 2003:  On a conserved Penrose-Fife system with Fourier heat flux law at the ``Third Meeting on Inverse and Direct Problems and Applications'', in Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano, Brescia, Italy (download PS).
    • April 10, 2003:  Continuous dependence and asymptotic analysis for some systems of Penrose-Fife type (part II) at the workshop `` Free boundary problems in the applied sciences'', in Montecatini, Lucca, Italy.
    • July 5, 2003:  Attrattore universale per sistemi di transizione di fase singolari at the meeting on ``Materiali speciali e memorie: problemi modellistici e analitici '', Salo', Brescia, Italy (download PS).
    • September 10, 2003:  Alcuni modelli di campo di fase di tipo Penrose-Fife at the ``XVII convegno UMI'', Milano, Italy (download PS).
    • November 6, 2003 (Invited talk): Universal attractor for some singular phase transition systems at Poitiers (France) (download PS).
    • March 27, 2004: Longtime behaviour of some singular phase transition systems at the meeting on ``Evolution problems'' in Rapallo, Genova, Italy (download  PS)
    • June 17, 2004: Universal attractor for some phase transition systems of Penrose-Fife type at the ``AIMS' fifth international conference on dynamical systems and differential equations'' at Pomona, California, USA (download PS). 
    • June 24, 2004: Evolution equations arising from nonlocal phase separation models at the meeting ``Evolution equations: Inverse and Direct Problems'' in Cortona, Arezzo, Italy (download PS). 
    • July 13, 2004: Global attractor for a parabolic hyperbolic Penrose-Fife phase-field model at the summer school ``EVEQ 2004'' in Prague, Czech Republic (download PDF).
    • November 24, 2004: Existence of a global attractor for some singular phase transitions systems at the ``Langenbach-Seminar'', at the WIAS-Berlin. 
    • March 18, 2005:  Identification problems in phase-field systems with memory at the worshop ``Direct and Inverse Problems in Evolution Equations'', in Rimini, Italy (download a PDF).
    • June 10, 2005: A phase transition model with the possibility of voids at the International Meeting ``Free boundary problems: theory and applications'', in Coimbra, Portugal (download a PDF).
    • May 18, 2005: Modelli di transizione di fase nonlocali rispetto alla fase ed alla temperatura at the ``Seminario di Analisi Nonlineare'', University of Milan, Italy (download a PDF).
    • June 22, 2005: Nonlocal temperature-dependent phase-field models  for non-isothermal phase transitions at the Meeting ``Inverse and Direct Problems'', in Cortona, Arezzo, Italy (download a PDF).
    • September 30, 2005: Global existence for nonlocal temperature-dependent phase-field models at the Meeting `` Modellizzazione Matematica ed Analisi dei Problemi a Frontiera Libera'', in Montecatini, Lucca, Italy (download a PDF).
    • November 30, 2005: Phase change with voids and bubbles at the meeting ``Dynamics of Phase Transitions'' at the WIAS in Berlin (download a PDF). 
    • January 10, 2006: Modelli di transizione di fase non locali at the ``seminario di Matematica Applicata'', IMATI-CNR, Pavia.
    • June 25, 2006: Nonlocal phase field models (invited talk) at ``AIMS' Sixth International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations, and Applications'', Poitiers (France) (download a PDF).
    • July 15, 2006: Long-time behaviour of solutions of a singular integro-differential phase-field system (invited talk) at the meeting ``Mathematical Models and Analytical Problems for Special Materials'', Salo' (Brescia, Italy) (download a PDF).
    • September 15, 2006: A nonlocal phase-field model with nonconstant specific heat at the meeting ``Recent Advances in Free Boundary Problems and Related Topics'', Levico(Tn) , (Italy) (download a PDF).
    • September 18, 2006: Asymptotic analyses of singular phase-field models, (invited talk) at the meeting ``Evolution Equations: Direct and Inverse Problems'', Bologna (Italy)(download a PDF).
    • October 25, 2006: A dual formulation for a class of phase-field systems: existence and long-time behaviour of solutions (invited talk)  at the ``Langenbach-Seminar'', at the WIAS in Berlin (download a PDF).
    • December 8, 2006: Formulazione duale per un modellodi transizione di fase: buona positura e comportamento per tempi lunghi, at the ``Colloquium Lagrangianum'', Scilla, Reggio Calabria (Italy) (download a PDF).
    • August 29, 2007: Analysis of a nonlinear degenerating PDE system for phase transitions in thermoviscoelastic materials, (invited talk) at the WIAS, Berlin (download a PDF).
    • September 29, 2007: Modelli di transizione di fase nonlocali at the XVIII Congresso dell'Unione Matematica Italiana Bari (download a PDF).
    • October 30, 2007: A new dual approach for a class of phase transitions with memory, (invited talk) at the Workshop ``Fluid-Structure Interactions and Related Topics'', at the Necas Center for Mathematical Modelling, Prague (download a PDF).
    • November 27, 2007: A nonlinear degenerating PDE system for phase transitions in thermoviscoelastic materials, (invited talk) at the ``International Conference on Free Boundary Problems. Nonlinear Phenomena with Energy Dissipation: Mathematical Analysis, Modelling and Simulation'', Chiba, Japan (download a PDF).
    • May 19, 2008: Some results on phase change models with microscopic movements, (invited talk) at the ``AIMS' Seventh International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations, and Applications'', Arlington, Texas, USA (download a PDF). 
    • October 24, 2008: Weak solutions to Fre'mond's full model of phase transitions, at the ``International WORKSHOP Phase Transitions and Optimal Control'', WIAS, Berlin (download a PDF).
    • November 4, 2008: Degenerating PDEs for phase transitions in thermoviscoelastic materials, (invited talk) at the WIAS, Berlin (download a PDF).
    • July 2, 2009: A bottle in a freezer, (invited talk) at the Meeting ``EEMMAS Evolution Equation and Mathematical Models in the Applied Sciences'', Taranto (download a PDF).
    • July 10, 2009: A model of phase-field for two-phase compressible fluids, (invited talk) at the Workshop ``Mathematical Models and Analytical Problems for Special Materials'', Brescia (download a PDF).
    • May 27, 2010: Liquid-solid phase transitions in a deformable container, at the ``8th AIMS International Conference on Dyn. Systems, Diff. Equations and Applications'', Dresden (downolad a PDF).
    • September 04, 2010: Degenerating PDE's for phase transitons in thermoviscoelastic materials, (invited talk) at the Meeting ``PDE's, semigroup theory and inverse problems'', Bologna (download  a PDF). 
    • October 27, 2010: A diffuse interface model for two phase compressible fuids, at the WIAS, Berlin (download  a PDF).
    • November  16, 2010: On a non-isothermal model for nematic liquid crystals, WIAS, Berlin (download  a PDF)
    • December 18, 2010: A non-isothermal model for nematic liquid crystals, at the ``Workshop on the occasion of 5th anniversary of the foundation of Jindrich Necas Center for Mathematical Modeling'', Prague (download a PDF).
    • February 8, 2011: On a quasilinear multi-phase system with nonconstant specific heat and heat conductivity, WIAS, Berlin (download a PDF).
    • September 14, 2011: Analysis of a non-isothermal model for nematic liquid crystals, 25th IFIP TC 7 Conference 2011 - System Modeling and Optimization, Berlin (download a PDF).

    Partecipation to meetings
    • Phase Transitions and Dissipation Phenomena, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) September 6 to 10 1999;
    • Phase transitions and Interfaces in Evolution equations: analysis, control, and approximation, S. Margherita Ligure (Italy), February 14 to 18 2000;
    • Giornate di studio sulle equazioni integrodifferenziali alle derivate parziali e applicazioni, Salo', Brescia (Italy), June 23 to 24 2000;
    • Convegno in memoria del Professor Brunello Terreni, Milano (Italy), September 27 to 28 2000;
    • Convegno su Problemi a frontiera libera, June 14 to 15 2001, Montecatini, Lucca (Italy);
    • International meeting on Whence boundary conditions in moderm and continuum physics?, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma (Italy), October 14 to 16 2002;
    • Recent advances on calculus of variations and PDE's, Pisa (Italy), November 7 to 9 2002;
    • Nonlinear evolution problems, Roma (Italy), Genuary 28 to 31 2003. 
    • Colloqium Lagrangianum, Montpellier (France), November 20 to 22 2003. 
    • FBP 2004 - Free Boundary Problems in Biomathematics, Multiscaling, Infinite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems, Montecatini, Lucca (Italy), June 10 to 12 2004.
    • Convegno per il centenario dalla nascita di Fulvio Ricci, Mathematical Department, University of Milan, Milano (Italy), September 28 2004.
    • Incontro di studio in memoria di Eugenio Beltrami, Istituto Lombardo, Milano (Italy), October 15 2004. 
    • Convegno Inverse and Control Problems for PDE's (ICOP), Roma,  March 13 to 16 2006.
    • Convegno Direct, Inverse and Control Problems for PDE's (DICOP), Roma,  June 25 to 28 2007.

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    Participation to schools
    • Euro-Summer School on Mathematical Aspects of Evolving Interfaces, Funchal, Madeira (Portugal), July 3 to 9 2000
    • CNA 2001 Summer School on Multiscale problems in nonlinear analysis May 31 2001 to June 9 2001, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (USA)
    • Alcuni temi di analisi matematica non lineare, February 3 to 8 2002, Universita' degli studi di Trento, Trento (Italy)
    • Spring school on calculus of variations, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa (Italy) May 20 to 25 2002
    • EVEQ  2004 - Sixth International Summer School on Evolution Equations, Prague (Czech Republic), July 12 to 16 2004
    • Lectures on transport equations and multi-D hyperbolic conservation laws, Bologna (Italy), January 17-20 2005
    • EVEQ  2008 - Seventh International Summer School on Evolution Equations, Prague (Czech Republic), June 16 to 20 2008

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