International Workshop "Vector- and Tensor-Valued Surface PDEs"

Welcome to the international workshop on “Vector- and Tensor-Valued Surface PDEs,” a multidisciplinary event dedicated to exploring the mathematical challenges associated with PDEs defined on curved surfaces. This workshop serves as a platform for leading experts from diverse mathematical and application fields, including analysis, numerics, computational simulations, modeling in biology and material science, to engage in in-depth discussions and collaborative research.

The workshop will delve into the intricate coupling between surface geometry and PDEs, with a particular emphasis on vector- and tensor-valued surface fields. Traditional approaches for scalar-valued equations on curved surfaces are no longer sufficient for tackling the complexities presented by vector- and tensor-valued surface PDEs. Therefore, this event seeks to bridge the gap between different communities and develop innovative numerical methods and computational simulations as well as applications and experiments to address these challenges.

Specific problems from various application areas will be investigated, including fluidic membranes, active matter, viscoelastic properties of a cell cortex, prestrained elastic structures, and nematic liquid crystal elastomers. These topics represent highly active research fields where reliable and predictive simulations play a crucial role in catalyzing further developments.

Time and Venue

Invited Speakers

The workshop features presentations by invited speakers and contributed short talks.

• Helmut Abels (Universität Regensburg, Germany)
• Sami Al-Izzi (University of Oslo, Norway)
• Fridtjof Brauns* (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
• Evan S. Gawlik* (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
• André Massing (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
• Robert Nürnberg (University of Trento, Italy)
• Max Wardetzky (University of Göttingen, Germany)
• Shuo Yang (Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Science and Applications, China)
• Chandrasekhar Venkataraman (University of Sussex, UK)

(* will participate online.)

Poster

Please download the poster of the workshop.

Program

Please download the program and abstract book of the workshop.

(All times are given in Central European Standard Time (UTC+1))

Wednesday, Nov 29

Thursday, Nov 30

Friday, Dec 1

Organizational information

Find some additional information about the venue, direction, lunch, and dinner in the following foldable blocks.

Arrival information and directions

The conference venue can be easily reached from Dresden Central Station (Hauptbahnhof Dresden):

• Tram 11 (direction: Zschertnitz) and exit at "Zellescher Weg" (after 10min).
• or by Bus 66 (direction: Loschwitz or Nickern ) and exit at "Weberplatz" (after 5min), the 12min walk uphill.
• or by Bus 66 (direction: Loschwitz or Nickern ) and exit at "Caspar-David-Friedrich-Straße" (after 7min), change into Bus 61 (direction Löbtau) and exit at "Zellescher Weg" (after 2min).

See also the local public transport company webpage DVB for a detailed schedule.

From Dresden International Airport please take the train S2 to Dresden Central Station (Hauptbahnhof Dresden) (duration 22min).

Conference venue

All lectures will take place at

© SLUB

Technische Universität Dresden,
Faculty of Mathematics,
Zellescher Weg 25
Building Z21, Room Z21/250

Lunch breaks

Close to the conference vanue you can buy lunch in one of the various canteens and cafeterias. For example,

• Mensa Siedepunkt, Zellescher Weg 17
• Mensa Wueins, Wundtstraße 1
• Mesa Zeltschlösschen, Nürnberger Straße 55

Note that you need cash (EUR) to pay there at the counters.

Conference dinner

The conference dinner will take place on Thursday Nov 30, 2023 in the restaurant Kleinert's Spezialitäten near the famous bridge "Blaues Wunder".

• From the conference venue take the Bus 61 at "Dresden Zellescher Weg" (direction: Fernsehturm) until stop "Körnerplatz, Dresden". From there it is 2min walk.

Registration

The number of participants in the workshop is limited. The registration deadline is already reached. If you still want to participate (online), please contact the organizers directly.

The participation fee is 80 EUR for participants on site and 10 EUR for participants online. To complete your registration, please transfer the participation fee to the account below. The participation fee includes coffee breaks and a conference dinner for the one-site participants and the corresponding costs for the invited speakers.

In order to correctly process your registration, the payment must be received by Nov 5, 2023.

Acknowledgements

© B. Böttcher

We gratefully acknowledge the support by DFG within the research unit FOR3013 coordination project and by Förderverein für Mathematik zu Dresden e.V.

Local organizers

For questions, please contact the organizing committee via .

• Stefan Neukamm
• Simon Praetorius
• Axel Voigt